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JANUARY 2022 IN THIS ISSUE:
• Motema's "BEST OF 2021" Recap.
• On the Road Again! 2022 TOUR DATES!
• 4 STARS for CHARNETT MOFFETT TRIO: LIVE
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Greetings Motéma Friends.
With our first newsletter of 2022, we wish you a very happy and fulfilling New Year in music and beyond, and for those struggling with anything, we send you strength and hope. Here is some Motéma music to lift your spirits! ENJOY! – Team Motéma.
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Congratulations to JIHYE LEE ORCHESTRA
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| DARING MIND has been voted #58 on the Arts Fuse Jazz Critics "Best Jazz Albums of 2021" poll, and has ranked high on year-end lists by critics in All About Jazz, The Guardian (UK), Textura, NPR (Illinois) South Dakota Public Broadcasting, JazzWise (UK), Musica Jazz
(IT), and Le Monde (FR) which included 'Daring Mind' in their prestigious "Top 5 Jazz Albums of the Year." Also, "Relentless Mind" is in the top five on Spotify's "Best Jazz Songs of 2021" Playlist. All this further confirms Lee's refreshing new voice in
contemporary jazz.
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"She has her own style. Her crisp arrangements balance frenetic virtuosity with an overarching reflective mood..."– NEW YORK TIMES
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Congratulations to CHARNETT MOFFETT
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NEW LOVE (June 2021) was selected by critics Jerome Wilson (All About Jazz) and Robert Shore (JazzWise) as their #1, and #2 selections respectively, for "Best Jazz Album of the Year." Wilson comments that "veterans such as Charnett Moffett and Pharaoh Sanders made powerful statements" this year. Be sure to check out this spiritual, joyful, musically masterful, and wholly original release.
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"Joyous and mystically resonant in equal parts." – JAZZWIZE (★★★★)
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Congratulations to THE ROYAL BOPSTERS
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PARTY OF FOUR was included in Downbeat's Best Albums of 2021 issue for their four-star review by Allen Morrison, and has been lauded in the US and abroad as an expert, fun, and swinging example of the art of vocal jazz harmony and vocalese.
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"An entertaining gem... A touchstone for jazz arrangers and vocalists" – ★★★★ -DOWNBEAT
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JANA HERZEN & CHARNETT MOFFETT DUO
Wednesdays in January @ Catalina Jazz Club (L.A.)
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"Perhaps he most joyful jazz gig of the past year... Beautiful talents...
don’t miss out on something positive happening in LA.”
– GEORGE HARRIS, JAZZWEEKLY.COM
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JIHYE LEE ORCHESTRA
March 15 @ Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (JALC) & @ Jazz Gallery (Date TBA Soon!)
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Motéma Artists and Alumni Now On Multi-City Tours:
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CHARNETT MOFFETT TRIO: LIVE
feat. Jana Herzen, with Corey Garcia
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"An exciting, unpredictable, and richly artistic jazz journey... Moffett’s legendary virtuosity on the electric bass is ever-present in his compositions, which glisten in live performance."– JAZZWISE
Listen/Buy. See Video
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"Remembering Your Love" by C. Moffett & J. Herzen
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NEW SPOTIFY & YOUTUBE PLAYLISTS
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This month we inaugurate a new "Piano Artistry" series. Volume 1, "Quiet Moods" features meditative tracks by Geri Allen, Joey Alexander, Gerald Clayton, Marc Cary, Lynne Arriale, and more.
Follow our profiles on Spotify or Youtube to tune in now and chill out with some of the best-loved pianists in modern jazz. Follow our profiles to be notified each time we have a new release or playlist.
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THE COOKERS COVER FEATURE IN DOWNBEAT
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Congratulations to The Cookers for their new album on Gearbox Records, and for their cover feature on the latest issue of Downbeat Magazine. Motéma was honored to collaborate on two key releases, "Believe" (2012) and "Time and Time Again" (2014), by the
Cookers, a supergroup that features some of the greatest hard-bop players ever: Billy Hart, Billy Harper, Cecil McBee, George Cables, Eddie Henderson, Donald Harrison, & David Weiss.
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“Player for player, there’s
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.”
– Andrew Gilbert, The Boston Globe
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"Always Something New"
– A BandCamp Daily Retrospective on
Jack Dejohnette
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Don't miss the Bandcamp Daily, January 5th retrospective piece on Jack DeJohnette that includes a very nice write up Motema's 2017 super-group release HUDSON (Jack Dejohnette, John Scofield, John Medeski, and Larry Grenadier)
which we
released in honor of Jack's 75th Birthday in 2017.
"The album has the kind of languid, pastoral feel one might expect from an album dedicated to the Hudson Valley.
But even when he’s kicking back, the title track’s oddball groove signals that DeJohnette remains basically incapable of not doing something interesting."
– Bandcamp Daily
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'Till next time with gratitude and good wishes,
Team Motéma
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