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JAZZ MAFIA TO PERFORM HIP-HOP SYMPHONY BRASS, BOWS & BEATS ON TOUR AT MAJOR FESTIVALS NATIONWIDE, MARKING THE ACCLAIMED NEW WORKS DEBUT OUTSIDE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

LIVE ALBUM RECORDED AT SOLD-OUT 2009 PREMIERE IN SF SET FOR JUNE RELEASE.

The Jazz Mafia—an intricately woven collective of jazz virtuosos, top MCs, singers, arrangers, and composers that include many of the Bay Areas most innovative and prolific musical forces—have announced their first tour of major festivals nationwide. Traveling as a 45-piece group for the tour, Jazz Mafia will perform their critically acclaimed hip-hop symphony Brass, Bows & Beats, which they premiered to sold-out audiences in San Francisco in 2009.
Following a hometown kick-off at Yoshis in San Francisco on April 25, Jazz Mafia will take to the road to appear at many of North Americas best-known jazz festivals including the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles (6/13); the Montreal Jazz Festival in Montreal, Quebec Canada (6/27); the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, RI (8/7); and the Monterey Jazz Festival in Monterey, CA (9/17). Select stand-alone dates include shows at The Grand Theatre in Reno, NV (5/8), (le) Poisson Rouge in NYC (6/25), Laxson Auditorium in Chico, CA (10/15), and the Kimo Theater in Albuquerque, NM (10/30).
Brass, Bows & Beats is a genre-defying, multi-thematic, and community-oriented work that ecstatically embracesandfearlesslyexpandsonjazztradition. JazzMafias2010tourbringsthisborderlesstourdeforce —by principal composer, arranger, and conductor Adam Theis—outside the Bay Area for the first time.The groups bold and interactive creativity and stage presence, which have made them a West coast phenomenon, are certain to captivate audiences across the continent.
Rick Marianetti, reviewing Brass, Bows & Beats for the San Francisco Examiner, wrote that the monumental symphony is, one of the most exciting new works of American music in years—a seamless fusion of jazz, funk, hip-hop, electronica and digital turntable that deserves to be heard worldwide. Bohemian.coms Gabe Meline wrote that it is, on par with Miles Davis and Gil Evans Live at Carnegie Hall or Charles Mingus Epitaph—visionary in scope, staggering in depth.
The Jazz Mafia is bravado post-modern orchestration, blistering solos, spoken-word, Latin poly-rhythms, boom-bap rhymes, and emotive ballads, all spun together with the spirit of improvisational Jazz—but also masterfully adhering to symphonic structural elements. The 60-piece incarnation of Jazz Mafia that came together last year for two sold-out performances of Brass, Bows & Beats at San Franciscos Palace of Fine Arts were recorded for a forthcoming live album due out on June 8th. Brass, Bows & Beats will be released on Jazz Mafia Recordings. On May 8th, the Jazz Mafia will also be launching a free download on their website for a 15 song sampler, which will include two tracks from the forthcoming "Brass, Bows & Beats" live album.

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