Bob Baldwin -][- You Better Ask Somebody! [Book]

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Bob Baldwin, Jazz, Keyboardist

Bob Baldwin, You Better Ask Somebody

You Better Ask Somebody! Staying On Top Of Your Career in the “Friggin’” Music Business is a music handbook that primarily helps prepare aspiring musicians to create a successful career in the music industry.

The handbook, created for high school and college level students, explains how aspiring musicians can create a successful career path and make a name in the industry while maintaining their integrity. It’s also a refresher course for veteran artists and a manager’s reference guide to improve their own work ethic.

Josh Arcoleo -][- Beginnings [Edition Records, 2012]

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Jazz, Josh Arcoleo, Saxophone

Josh Arcoleo, Beginnings

Josh Arcoleo -][- Beginnings –MP3– [Edition Records, 2012]

[Biography] – Born into a musical family in 1989 Josh was lucky enough to start saxophone lessons with the legendary Pee Wee Ellis when he was 13. At 18 he gained a place on the renowned jazz course at the Royal Academy of Music – he has just graduated with a 1st class degree, as well as winning a 2011 Yamaha Parliamentary Jazz Scholarship and the Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize. The latter is a recording contract with Edition Records with his debut album to be released in the spring of 2012. He has also received awards from the EMI Music Sound Foundation and MBF Young Talent.

Myra Melford & TrioM -][- The Guest House [Yellowbird Records, 2012]

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Composer, Jazz, Keyboards, Myra Melford, Piano

Myra Melford & TrioM, The Guest House

Myra Melford & TrioM -][- The Guest House –MP3– [Yellowbird Records, 2012]

A fearless musical adventurer – in both her composing and playing – Myra Melford has followed a fascinating path since determining to forge a career in music in 1980. Having studied classical piano into her teens, she had no real exposure to jazz until college. Improvisation rekindled her early love of the piano, and she plunged in to develop a signature style.

At the keyboard, Melford recasts the blues and boogie-woogie of her native Chicago, folds in elements of the music of Eastern Europe and India, and blends them with the rangy, percussive avant-garde approach she cultivated in studies with Don Pullen and Henry Threadgill. This personal musical vocabulary is further enriched by a lush lyricism and organized by an architectural sense of composition that she derived from classical training.

Bassist – Composer Alexis Cuadrado Presents the World Premiere of “A Lorca Landscape”

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Alexis Cuadrado, Bass, Claudia Acuña, Dan Tepfer, Jazz, Mark Ferbe, Miguel Zenón

“Listen to Cuadrado’s compositions and you’ll find every reason to take him seriously.”- Josh Jackson, NPR Music

Alexis Cuadrado

“A Lorca Soundscape” is a new work­­ by bassist-composer Alexis Cuadrado, reflecting on Federico Garcia Lorca’s 1930 book, “Poeta en Nueva York“, with a series of jazz pieces that utilize Lorca’s poetry as lyrics.

Lorca lived in NYC for a few months in 1929-30 and he wrote a heartfelt set of poems that reflect on the culture shock and loneliness that he experienced at the time. The book is a raw social commentary that connects with themes that are still an important part of the American reality today, such as the economic inequalities, racial-social discrimination or the brutality of the urban landscape. “Poeta en Nueva York” deeply connects with the current socio-economic climate, the “Occupy” movement, and the general population discontent about how our system is working.