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       THE ALL NEW JAZZED AND BLUE PRESENTS:
RO SHAM BEAUX AND THEiR SELF-TiTLED RELEASE AND MUSiC FROM TOM WOPAT, JASON HEMMENS, DEE DEE BRiDGEWATER AND MORE!!!  MARCH
11, 2012 - The weekly
online radio series Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in
Blues and Jazz is back and is now available for download at
Rockwired.com and features exclusive interviews with the members of Ro
Sham Beaux regarding their brand new self-titled release. In
the opening
segment, the members of Ro Sham Beaux discuss the
inspiration behind the tracks of their new project and the
creative process that brings about such compelling music. The second
half of this edition of Jazzed
and Blue
will feature music from such jazz and blues artists as Kenny Love,
Mozik, Marilyn Mcleod, Tom Wopat, Jason Hemmens and more.
“After being gone for about three months, it is great to finally be
back and doing this show again. " says Jazzed and Blue host Brian Lush.
“It's a real treat to end a long week with a show like this and to kick
back and listen to some great music."A fiercely grooving foursome hailing from New England Conservatory, RSB features Luke Marantz on piano and keyboard, bassist Oliver Watkinson, drummer Jacob Cole, and saxophonist Zac Shaiman. The collective quartet announces its arrival on March 13, 2012 with the release of a combustible self-titled album on Red Piano Records that blows apart binary musical categories.While fluent in the post-bop canon, the band is equally influenced by indie rock pacesetters like Deerhoof, Björk, and The Dirty Projectors. Artfully employing electronic effects and looping in real time, RSB has honed a compelling book of original tunes that embrace pop's concision, indie rock's textural resourcefulness and jazz's improvisational imperative. Rather than serving as launching pads for extended solos, RSB tunes are vehicles for jaw-dropping group interplay and quicksilver shifts in tempo, texture and momentum. Above all, RSB infuses their music with a sense of unabashed joy, as if exalting in each other's company."We thrive in the spaces between order and chaos," Marantz says. "We're playing acoustic instruments, but electrified, including saxophone with effects and pedals, which is a sound you don't hear very much. We improvise the forms, which means we've developed a whole language among ourselves out of necessity. Zac brings in new tunes every week and the old tunes keep expanding. We have a whole lexicon of places we can go." The band's sound has evolved considerably since recording its debut album, but Ro Sham Beaux captures the quartet's singular sound. The album opens with "Bearblade," a funk-tinged anthem with a soaring saxophone line that gives way to a shimmering keyboard passage. The slow-burning "Tejas Drive" is built on Cole's pummeling trap work. While sounding nothing like The Bad Plus, the tune's surging and retreating tidal energy brings to mind a Dave King opus. While still moody and mysterious, RSB's interpretation of Björk's "Jóga," ratchets up the intensity several notches, maintaining the melody's smeary quality while suggesting darker currents underneath. Even spookier is the episodic "Dreamulator," which opens with the unsettling strains of a toy piano. An Afro-Brazilian groove transforms the vibe, and then quickly gives way to carefully latticed saxophone lines. TODAY'S
PLAYLiST
KENNY
LOVE'SEASONS OF CHANGE' CASE SENSiTiVE MOZiK 'EYE OF THE HURRiCANE' MOZiK MARiLYN MCLEOD 'WHAT WOULD MARViN SAY' i BELiEVE iN ME DEE DEE BRiDGEWATER 'MiDNiGHT SUN' LOST iN DREAMS DiANE SCHUUR 'WHY CAN'T HE BE YOU' THE GATHERiNG TRACY NELSON 'i KNOW iT'S A SiN' ViCTiM OF THE BLUES TOM WOPAT '2 GREY ROOMS' CONSiDER iT SWUNG RED HOT AND RED 'BYE BYE BLACKBiRD' JASON HEMMENS 'PEOPLE OF THE STREET' WELCOME TO REALiTY DOWNLOAD PART ONE - RO SHAM BEAUX PROFiLE HERE!!! DOWNLOAD PART TWO - FREE FORM SEGMENT HERE!!! RELATED LiNKS: WWW.RSBMUSiC.NET ABOUT THE HOST:  BRIAN
LUSH holds a BA in Creative Writing from the UNIVERSITY OF
NEW MEXICO. He established ROCKWIRED on New Years of 2004 and hasn't
looked back
since. He is currently the host of all of ROCKWIRED.COM's programming
which includes such shows as ROCKWIRED RADIO PROFILES and ROCKWIRED
FREE FORM RADIO. As
program producer for ROCKWiRED.COM, LUSH is hands-on when it
comes to
interviewing and building a lasting rapport with the artists that come
ROCKWiRED's
way. As a youngster, BRIAN LUSH had no idea what kind of seed was being
planted
by reading magazines such as HIT PARADE, HIGH TIMES, SPIN, REQUEST
(remember
that one?) and even ROLLING STONE. "Those were the days before the
internet and being a rock journalist
looked
like the coolest job imaginable." says LUSH "But reading these
magazines had me
imagining that one day I'd be the artist giving all of the clever
answers to
some poor guy with a tape recorder. Well, life has a way of surprising
you.
Now, I'm the poor guy with the tape recorder and asking all of the
questions."CONTACT
BRiAN LUSH
AT: djlush@rockwired.com
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