Saturday, November 29, 2014

Renowned pianist, composer, arranger, teacher, and ensemble leader GERI ALLEN (b. June 12, 1957) is featured from November 29 to December 5, 2014 in SOUND PROJECTIONS, AN ONLINE QUARTERLY MUSIC MAGAZINE

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All,

I hope you enjoyed the fourth week issue (November 22-28) of SOUND PROJECTIONS, the new online quarterly music magazine which features the extraordinary work, art, and life of the legendary musician, composer, singer, songwriter, and cultural icon Jimi Hendrix. Week #5 begins TODAY on Saturday, November 29, 2014 @10AM PST which is @1PM EST. The featured artist for the upcoming week (November 29-December 5) is the outstanding and internationally renowned pianist, composer, arranger, teacher and ensemble leader Geri Allen.  So enjoy this week’s musical entry in SOUND PROJECTIONS, the online music magazine and please pass the word to your friends, colleagues, comrades, and associates that the magazine is now up and running at the following site.  Please click on the link below:


http://soundprojections.blogspot.com/ 


Thanks.  For further important details please read below...
Kofi

Sound Projections

A sonic exploration and tonal analysis of contemporary creative music in a myriad of improvisational/composed settings, textures, and expressions. 


Welcome to Sound Projections

I'm your host Kofi Natambu. This online magazine features the very best in contemporary creative music in this creative timezone NOW (the one we're living in) as well as that of the historical past. The purpose is to openly explore, examine, investigate, reflect on, studiously critique, and take opulent pleasure in the sonic and aural dimensions of human experience known and identified to us as MUSIC. I'm also interested in critically examining the wide range of ideas and opinions that govern our commodified notions of the production, consumption, marketing, and commercial exchange of organized sound(s) which largely define and thereby (over)determine our present relationships to music in the general political economy and culture.

Thus this magazine will strive to critically question and go beyond the conventional imposed notions and categories of what constitutes the generic and stylistic definitions of 'Jazz', 'classical music', 'Blues', 'Rhythm and Blues', 'Rock 'n Roll', 'Pop', 'Funk', 'Hip Hop' etc. in order to search for what individual artists and ensembles do creatively to challenge and transform our ingrained ideas and attitudes of what music is and could be.

So please join me on this ongoing visceral, investigative, and cerebral quest to explore, enjoy, and pay homage to the endlessly creative and uniquely magisterial dimensions of MUSIC in all of its guises and expressive identities.

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Geri Allen  (b. June 12, 1957):  Renowned pianist, composer, arranger, teacher, and ensemble leader



GERI ALLEN

SOUND PROJECTIONS 
AN ONLINE QUARTERLY MUSIC MAGAZINE
EDITOR: KOFI NATAMBU
WINTER, 2014





VOLUME ONE                                      NUMBER ONE


MILES DAVIS


Featuring the Musics and Aesthetic Visions of:
 
ANTHONY BRAXTON
November 1-7

CECIL TAYLOR
November 8-14

STEVIE WONDER
November 15-21

JIMI HENDRIX
November 22-28

GERI ALLEN
November 29-December 5


HERBIE HANCOCK
December 6-12

SONNY ROLLINS
December 13-19

JANELLE MONAE
December 20-26

GARY CLARK, JR.
December 27-January 2

NINA SIMONE
January 3-January 9

ORNETTE COLEMAN
January 10-January 16

WAYNE SHORTER
January 17-23

*[Special bonus feature: A celebration of the centennial year of musician, composer, orchestra leader, and philosopher SUN RA, 1914-1993] 
January 24-30

WHAT IS SOUND PROJECTIONS?:


This is a quarterly magazine which means that each individual issue will appear every three months following the first issue on November 1, 2014 and that four issues will constitute the completion of one volume (Volume 1, Numbers 1-4). Twelve (12) artists will be featured during each quarter. In this design template this means that one artist will be featured per week for 12 weeks beginning with the first issue on November 1 and thus continuing for three months until the second issue appears on February 1, 2015. Thus each subsequent issue will repeat the cycle with 12 new artists featured for each quarter. The photo in the middle of the page (in the first issue it is Miles Davis) constitutes the cover image for the magazine for that quarter and this image changes every three months with each subsequent issue. What follows is the weekly schedule for each artist in volume one, number one that runs from November 1, 2014 to January 23, 2015 with the second round of new artists appearing in the February 1, 2015 issue (volume one, number two):

ANTHONY BRAXTON November 1-7
CECIL TAYLOR November 8-14
STEVIE WONDER November 15-21
JIMI HENDRIX November 22-28
GERI ALLEN November 29-December 5
HERBIE HANCOCK December 6-12
SONNY ROLLINS December 13-19
JANELLE MONAE December 20-26
GARY CLARK, JR. December 27-January 2
NINA SIMONE January 3-January 9
ORNETTE COLEMAN January 10-January 16
WAYNE SHORTER January 17-23

SUN RA 2014 Centennial  January 24-30