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Best Of 2011 Lists

A complete round-up of all the polls and year-end lists that recognized our clients in 2011

It’s Year-End List Time

Another year is almost in the books, which means it’s time for critics and fans alike to start compiling their best-releases-of-the-year lists. For your reference, here’s a list of our clients’ 2011 recordings.

Planetary Unknown On The Jazz Session

Today’s landmark 300th episode of The Jazz Session features a 45+ minute interview with the improvising collective, Planetary Unknown. The group, which brings together saxophonist David S. Ware, pianist Cooper-Moore, bassist William Parker and drummer Muhammad Ali in one ensemble for…

Kidd Jordan Track To Be Featured On HBO’s Treme This Sunday

The track “Last of the Chicken Wings” from eminent New Orleans tenor saxophonist Kidd Jordan’s 2006 AUM Fidelity recording Palm Of Soul, featuring bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake, will be used in this Sunday’s episode of the HBO…

2011 DownBeat Critics Poll Results

DownBeat‘s August issue is reaching subscribers now and with it the results of the 59th Annual Critics Poll. We’re very pleased to report that our clients are well represented and in more categories than ever before. AUM Fidelity earned the…

BBC 3′s Jazz On 3 Documents Planetary Unknown At Vision Festival 16

BBC 3′s Jazz on 3 returned to the Vision Festival this year and Monday’s episode features live recordings of three of the highlights, including improvising supergroup Planetary Unknown’s entire hour-long set celebrating the release of its self-titled debut on AUM…

JazzTimes: Other Dimensions In Music Featuring Fay Victor’s Kaiso Stories

“Roots tributes seldom get as fascinating or as cultishly seductive as Kaiso Stories,” writes reviewer Lloyd Sachs in the July/August issue of JazzTimes, ”on which Brooklyn-based singer Fay Victor teams with the free-jazz collective Other Dimensions in Music to revisit, reinvent…

Farmers By Nature’s European Tour Begins Tonight At Bimhuis

Farmers By Nature, featuring pianist Craig Taborn, bassist William Parker and drummer Gerald Cleaver, kicks-off its six-city European tour tonight in Amsterdam. The four year-old improvising trio is celebrating the release of its second AUM Fidelity recording, Out Of This World’s…

Jazzwise: Farmers By Nature + Planetary Unknown

The July issue of Jazzwise features four-star reviews of the two latest AUM Fidelity releases, Farmers By Nature’s Out Of This World’s Distortions (AUM067) and David S. Ware/Cooper-Moore/William Parker/Muhammad Ali’s Planetary Unknown (AUM068). In his review of the former, Kevin…

Tonight: Farmers By Nature At Suoni Per Il Popolo In Montreal

Tonight at 8:00 p.m., Farmers By Nature will celebrate its latest AUM Fidelity release, Out Of This World’s Distortions (AUM067), with a performance at Montreal’s Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival. The group, which features Craig Taborn (piano), William Parker (bass)…