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  • James Farm by Jimmy Katz
    Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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    James Farm Launches Tour of Bay Area, Then Heads to Tokyo

    James Farm—Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland—launch a tour of the Bay Area at the Napa Valley Opera House tonight, followed by sets at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz and a weekend of shows at Yoshi's Oakland. The group heads next to Japan for four nights at the Blue Note Tokyo. "We complement each other very well and have a type of intuitiveness with the way we play with each other," Harland tells the San Francisco Chronicle. "That's something that takes years to develop, so it's amazing that we kind of have that already, even though we don't tour that often."

  • James Farm by Jimmy Katz
    Thursday, April 12, 2012
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    James Farm's BeanTown Jazz Festival Performance Featured on NPR's "JazzSet"

    James Farm—a collaborative band featuring Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland—released its self-titled debut album on Nonesuch almost exactly one year ago, on April 26, 2011. Last September, the band performed in the Opening Night concert of the BeanTown Jazz Festival at Boston's Berklee Performance Center. Now, on this week's episode of NPR's JazzSet, host Dee Dee Bridgewater broadcasts that performance, recorded by NPR member station WGBH in Boston.

  • James Farm [cover]
    Friday, December 9, 2011
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    James Farm's Self-Titled Debut Album Named Among NPR's Best Jazz Albums of 2011

    James Farm, the self-titled debut album from the collaborative band featuring Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland, has made NPR Music's list of the ten Best Jazz Albums of 2011. "All contribute songs to the group's repertoire, and in doing so, they've clearly soaked up grooves and chord progressions from today's pop music without ever forcing the issue," says NPR's Patrick Jarenwattananon. "Then they worked out these textures and tunes on the road for a while before pressing record. The harvest feels unlike an all-star collective, and more like a homegrown band."

  • James Farm: Jazz Standard, June 2011 [video]
    Thursday, September 15, 2011
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    Videos: Watch James Farm Live Performance As Band Launches US Tour

    James Farm—the collaborative band featuring Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland—released its self-titled debut album earlier this year on Nonesuch, followed by several live performances that included a four-night residency at New York's Jazz Standard. As James Farm hits the road again, launching the next leg of its tour this Friday at the Monterey Jazz Festival, where Redman is artist-in-residence, the band has unveiled three videos from the Jazz Standard residency. Watch them here.

  • James Farm [cover]
    Wednesday, July 6, 2011
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    James Farm Featured on NPR's "All Things Considered"; Album "Casts a Spell," Says LA Times

    James Farm and their self-titled debut album are featured on NPR's All Things Considered today. "New bands don't come along every day in jazz," says NPR's Tom Moon. "But listen to these unusual compositions, and to the lively exchanges that erupt inside of them. Even though these players can only make a partial commitment of time to James Farm, they're fully committed musically." The Los Angeles Times says: "While the term 'supergroup' may be a loaded concept, it's hard not to consider James Farm one ... The new ground covered by [Joshua] Redman and cohorts casts a spell of its own."

  • James Farm: WNYC's "Soundcheck," June 15, 2011
    Friday, June 17, 2011
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    Video: James Farm Performs Music from New Album on WNYC's "Soundcheck"

    James Farm kicked off its four-night residency at New York's Jazz Standard last night with two stellar sets featuring songs from their self-titled debut album. The band stopped by WNYC's Soundcheck earlier this week to discuss and perform songs off the new record. You can listen to the segment and watch the band perform "Polliwog" in a video from the show here. You can also listen to a bonus web exclusive performance from the session of "Bijoux."

  • James Farm by Jimmy Katz
    Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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    James Farm Appears on WNYC's "Soundcheck" in Advance of Four-Night Run at Jazz Standard

    James Farm, featuring Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland, is today's guest on WNYC's Soundcheck. The quartet sets up shop at the NY's Jazz Standard this week for a four-night residency. The New York Times says the band members "share a fondness for sleek convolution and introspective groove. As on their impressive new debut, self-titled and on the Nonesuch label, they’ll reach here for a cohesive and conscientiously eclectic sound."

  • James Farm [cover]
    Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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    James Farm's "Diverse, Intriguing Originals" Make for "A Very Cool Album," Says JazzTimes

    James Farm band mates Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland continue their tour across Europe, with stops in Norway, France, and Benelux before returning to the US for four nights at NY's Jazz Standard in June. JazzTimes, in a review of James Farm's self-titled debut album, says: "The band reaches out to a wider world through 10 diverse, intriguing originals that boast melodic clarity, rhythmic allure and improvisational concision ... James Farm is a very cool album."

  • James Farm by Jimmy Katz sky
    Friday, May 13, 2011
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    James Farm Launches International Tour with Spring, Summer Dates in Israel, Europe, US

    James Farm, the collaborative band featuring Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland, launches its world tour this weekend in Tel Aviv, Israel. The tour continues over the next month with performances throughout Europe, before returning to the States for four-nights at NY's Jazz Standard plus summer festival sets at Caramoor, Newport, and Monterey. "The power from these four dynamos throbs beneath the surface," says Arts Journal. Their "album has a fine balance between peacefulness and strength."

  • James Farm by Jimmy Katz
    Friday, May 6, 2011
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    James Farm's Aaron Parks and Eric Harland Talk with Spinner About the Band and Their New Album

    James Farm, the collaborative band featuring Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland, is the subject of a feature article in Spinner, which spoke with Harland and Parks about the project and their new album. "Yes, many will call James Farm an all-star band," says Spinner. "[T]he band certainly has some of the leading lights of today's jazz scene. But to hear Harland and Parks speak about the band's origins, James Farm seems something organically grown rather than a self-conscious assembly of heavy hitters."

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