“Orrin Keepnews, Producer,” new video Podcast series

[Brian Nation]

Veteran Jazz producer Orrin Keepnews and his Keepnews Collection releases from the Concord Music Group are the subject of a new video Podcast series created and produced by Bret Primack. The second chapter of “Orrin Keepnews, Producer” is “Orrin Keepnews Meets The Saxophone Colossus,” now available on YouTube and iTunes, as well as the Concord Music Group website.

Keepnews first met Sonny Rollins during Thelonious Monk’s “Brilliant Corners” recording session and signed the brilliant young saxman to his Riverside Records label, first recording him in 1957 in a Quartet setting with Roy Haynes.

One of the most respected of all Jazz producers, Orrin Keepnews, in his long and productive career, has worked with such artists as Rollins, Monk, Bill Evans, Wes Montgomery, and Cannonball Adderley, and has also founded the influential Jazz labels Riverside and Milestone.

“Orrin produced some of the most important music of the 20th century. In addition to his remarkable discography, he’s a witty raconteur whose stories provide new insights into the music and the remarkable men who created it,” reports series producer Bret Primack.

“Our goal is to utilize the emerging medium of video Podcasts to introduce new listeners to Orrin’s music, as well as offering long-time Jazz aficionados valuable new information about their favorite recordings.

Primack, aka YouTube’s Jazz Video Guy, has nearly two hundred videos with two million views posted on line and believes that “video on the Web represents a unique marketing opportunity for artists and labels. When there was only broadcast TV, niche programming simply wasn’t possible. But now, thanks to the lowered cost of video production, and the Web as a distribution vehicle, we can offer a program like ‘Orrin Keepnews, Producer,’ to a global audience, who can download or view it, any time, any place.”

In addition to his ongoing Sonny Rollins series, “The Sonny Rollins Podcast,” and his archival work with Billy Taylor, Primack has just completed a documentary about Joe Lovano, and is currently editing a new Podcast series for Telarc Records featuring the Saxophone Summit (Lovano, David Liebman, and Ravi Coltrane), to be shown in conjunction with the spring release of the group’s second recording,
“Seraphic Light.”

Orrin Keepnews, Producer: “Orrin Keepnews Meets The Saxophone Colossus”
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3L6Ws2DsEY
iTunes
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...t?id=269748936

Concord Music Group
http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/media/video/

The Sonny Rollins Podcast – “Carnegie Hall: Before and After”
http://www.sonnyrollins.com/podcasts.php

Joe Lovano 2007
http://www.joelovano.com/gallery2007.php


Schedule for “Orrin Keepnews, Producer”

December 3: – Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT1XXusk_cw

December 17: - Sonny Rollins – The Sound of Sonny
December 31: – Clark Terry – Serenade to a Bus Seat
January 14: The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
January 28: Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco
February 11: George Russell - Ezzethics
Febraury 25: Bill Evans – Portrait in Jazz
March 10: McCoy Tyner -- Horizon
March 24: Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York
April 7: Thelonious Monk -- Brilliant Corners
April 21: Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners, Part 2
May 5: Coleman Hawkins – The Hawk Flies
May 19: Nat Adderley – Work Song
May 22: Freedom Suite – Sonny Rollins
June 9: Freedom Suite – Sonny Rollins, Part 2
June 23: Fly with the Wind – McCoy Tyner
July 7: Bill Evans – Sunday at the Village Vanguard
July 21: Thelonious Monk – Town Hall Concert
August 4: Thelonious Monk – Town Hall Concert, Part 2
August 18: Blue Mitchell – Blue Soul