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Press Release
March 07, 2007
For Immediate Release
Jaimeo Brown named Ralph Bunche Fellow at Rutgers University
Princeton, N.J. – Rutgers University’s School
of Graduate Studies today announced the admission of Jaimeo Brown, son of
Mr. Dartanyan Brown and Marcia Miget of San Rafael into the program leading
to a Master’s Degree in Performance, Conducting or Collaborative Piano
Specialization. As a Jazz artist, Mr Brown will enter into a special program
of study available for performers who wish to concentrate in jazz. This program,
which provides advanced ensemble performance opportunities, takes advantage
of archival materials in the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers-Newark in
addition to the distinguished jazz faculty at Rutgers-New Brunswick/Piscataway.
In a dual announcement, Jaimeo was also named as recipient
of the 2007 Ralph Bunche Fellowship. Brown, a 1996 graduate
of San Rafael High School, was selected by a university-wide committee to
receive the Fellowship that includes a full scholarship and stipend for the
two years of his work toward a Masters degree in Jazz education and performance.
Ralph Johnson Bunche Fellowships are awarded to students in recognition of
their outstanding achievement and potential for graduate study. Established
in 1979, this fellowship is named after Ralph Johnson Bunche, the African-American
Statesman, Nobel Peace Laureate, and 1949 recipient of an honorary Doctor
of Laws from Rutgers. Jaimeo is a 2001 cum laude graduate of William Paterson
University in Wayne, N.J. He also attended Sonoma State University, Santa
Rosa, CA., where he studied under the direction of Mel Graves. He currently
lives and works in the New York City area where he has been associated with
The Mingus Big Band, Bobby Hutcherson, Wynton Marsalis and Tenor Saxophonist
Greg Tardy with whom he has recently completed a second album on Steeplechase
Records due for release this year.” He will be inaugurating his own
ensemble as a leader later this month in Manhattan. For more information about
his performances see http://www.myspace.com/jaimeobrown.
For contact information:
Dartanyan Brown
526 C Street
San Rafael, CA 94901
Email: dartanyan@dartanyan.com or jaimeobrown@yahoo.com
http://www.myspace.com/jaimeobrown
Check out Jaimeo's new album here
Dartanyan says thanks to you.
I am receiving many notes of respect and support from those who find my site via the web. Let's continue the conversation on my new blogosphere that I've set up with our friends at Apple's dotmac community. Multiple subjects reflecting my interests and best of all I can do it at my own pace. I'll see you over there at blogDartanyan.
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Rickie Lee Jones Videos featuring Dartanyan, Marcia Miget and G.T. Clinton resurface after 26 years
Not too many of our fans know that we spent a part of 1979 in Santa Monica and Hollywood working on various projects. One of them was a music video project with a new artist working with Lenny Waronker, and Ted Templeman at Warner Bros. records. My friend and LA guru George T. Clinton brought in some new music written by a then unknown artist whom we were then hired to do a small independent movie with. Well, the "movie" turned out to be a music video and the artist was a crazy hipster named Rickie Lee Jones. For two incredible days in the fall of '79 we created the videos that became the calling card of perhaps the most important new voice in American music for the next 20 years. Rickie Lee and I became friends during that time and I still love to check in when she's in the Bay area. I hope these videos are cleared for Internet release because even Rickie Lee couldn't find them for almost 24 years.
I hope you'll check out the links above to see the original videos that brought her to many of you for the first time. It was just another day in Hollywood for us, but when she picked up her Grammy for Best New Artist in 1980, we were like, whoa dude...we're part of history. Spark one.
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I was the bass player* for the shoot and I had fun on Chuck E's in Love as you can see. Besides our friend Rickie Lee, you'll see G.T. Clinton (piano) and guitarist Bob Bortje from Crackin', Brother Gene Dinwiddie (sax) from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Marcia Miget on alto sax too. John Grguric is on drums. Rickie Lee was California cool, but her video band was Des Moines and Omaha! *Of course the studio tracks were done by the legendary Willie Weeks. Another great player from the midwest. Notes by Dartanyan 03/2007
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The emergence of a new tributary in the stream of great American music is at hand!
Al Young and Dartanyan Brown - The Iowa Blues All-Stars - Dartanyan and Friends - Jaimeo Brown
1/26/05
The Iowa Blues All-Stars in Marin
Craig Horner, Ron Dewitte, Big Mike Edwards and Dartanyan Brown with guest Marcia Miget
Dartanyan last fall produced a pair of riveting performances by his newest project, the Iowa Blues All-Stars. The first show in August 2005 was at the Larkspur Cafe Theater located in the village of Larkspur, CA. No sooner had the guys unpacked back home when they were called back for a command performance in San Rafael, CA. in the performing arts center on the campus of Marin Academy. The sold-out show was warmly received by the northern Califomia audience and Ronnie, Big Mike, and Dartanyan dropped jaws with their pure soulful playing. The real deal indeed.
As the name implies Dartanyan's Iowa Blues All-Stars are an American roots music band comprised of veteran musicians recently inducted into the Iowa Blues Hall Of Fame. Guitarist Ron Dewitte, Vocalist Big Mike Edwards and Dartanyan reunited after 30 years, were joined in Iowa by Hall of Fame organist Sam Salomone and in California by Craig Horner, formerly with soul stars Sam and Dave. Speaking of Sam Salomone, our friend and mentor has just released his second self-produced album entitled Voodoo Bop.
Dartanyan and the other veteran players were joined by his son, 27-year-old drummer Jaimeo Brown and also Marcia Miget on saxophone, who came on to jam with IBAS on several songs including Dartanyan's compositions Tornado and Jazz is an Inside Joke.
We have always known that Ron Dewitte is one of a handful of guitarists with a truly original voice in the blues. His debt to B.B. is clear but his sound is his own and his soul....well, you'll hear for yourself soon.
Big Mike Edwards is our miracle man. This man has lived the blues and transcended his limitations in the process becoming a true griot of the blues. When you hear "People Get Ready" from Mike, there will be no doubt as to what and why we should be gettin' ready.
Jaimeo, in addition to being Dartanyan and Marcia's son, is one of New York's finest young drummers now working with some of NYC's most established artists including Steve Turre, Wynton Marsalis and most recently Greg Tardy, with whom he has a new album on SteepleChase records. (See below)
The IBAS shows were recorded as ProTools sessions and in digital video at Marin Academy and Larkspur Cafe Theater. We also have a funky show digitally recorded in Des Moines, Iowa in 2004. These recordings will serve as the raw material for a series of audio and video iPod downloads that will be offered for sale and review later this month. Watch this space in the days ahead for information, audio and video samples and more.
Jaimeo Brown notches two major new Jazz recordings
Our favorite son and drummer Jaimeo R. Brown,was busy in 2005. As featured drummer for Tenor sax/composer Greg Tardy and percussionist, composer Kevin Jones, Jaimeo is solidifying his reputation as a true original of his generation. Like Bill Stewart (a fellow Iowan) before him, Jaimeo has emerged from the William Paterson College jazz program onto the NYC scene with a talent built on a rock-solid work ethic sparked by uncommon imagination.
Check out Jaimeo's relentless drive and husky groove when teamed with Jones on the album Bujo Kevin Jones Tenth World produced by Babutunde Lea last year for Motema Records (Motema 0000-3). Reviewed in the January issue of DownBeat magazine, the release is celebrated for it's energy, and drive reminiscent of the best of Afro-Latin jazz and world fusion music. Interestingly, the personnel on Tenth World is the same group Jaimeo assembled for his 2001 senior recital at Wm. Paterson College.Their readily apparent cohesion is borne of deep personal empathy and respect for the music. That respect is an organic ingredient deeply woven into this very satisfying set of recordings.
Greg's album aptly titled "The Truth" reveals him to be a composer of startling depth and nuance and provides evidence of Jaimeo's range of sound and texture as this group explores, deconstructs and reassebles textures ranging from muscular bop to deeply fillagree'd compositions that do not provide easy answers but demand that you stick around for the entire experience. Only Shorter and maybe Zeitlin offer this kind of ensemble grace. Jaimeo says that playing with Greg Tardy as well as bassist Brian Conly is a rewarding growth experience. The concentration required to see each piece through to its potential is considerable but he relates lots of satisfaction as he describes learning to play effectively with pianist Helen Sung as well as Tardy and Conley. In conversations with Ms. Sung last summer in Los Angeles, she struck us as totally dedicated to her art which, according to her, struck as an epiphany after she heard Bud Powell after years of classical training. The combination of Tardy, Brown, Sung, Conley and trumpeter Marcus Printup has produced a document of lasting grace and soul power. Its not easy listening, unless you're really seeking The Truth.
(Here's another review of Tardy's record from All About Jazz)
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