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WINNER - BEST JAZZ BAND
2010-2011 - Austin Music Awards at SXSW
Thanks for your vote and support!
Snapshots from SXSW: on stage at the Austin Music Awards,
sitting in with Dirty Dozen Brass Band
at the HBO Treme SXSW Day Party
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Jeff Lofton's 1950s Miles Davis Tribute
Saturday, February 11, 2012 for KRTU's Year of Jazz series
Carver Community
Cultural Center
226 N. Hackberry St.,
San Antonio
8 p.m. $15 at door
Free to members
"...rejoice Kind of Blue fans." - Austin Monthly
Read the preview from the Austin American-Statesman, March 7, 2010 :
The Arrival of Jazz Trumpeter Jeff Lofton
- Trumpeter's Lofty Goal: Recreating History
Recently featured in the New Faces series at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York, Jeff Lofton's 1950s Miles Davis Tribute features Davis' compositions and interpretations made famous by the first great Miles Davis Quintet during 1950 - 1959, and includes excerpts from "Kind of Blue."
"Listen up Miles Davis fans..." from the Austin American-Statesman and "... channels Miles Davis..." from The Daily Texan were early reviews of Jeff Lofton's 1950s Miles Davis Tribute at the historic Victory Grill in September 2007. Since then the tribute traveled to Scat Jazz Lounge in Fort Worth and launched a concert series in collaboration with the University of Texas Blanton Museum's "Birth of the Cool" exhibit, along with debuting in New York at the Iridium Jazz Club.
The March 2010 performance of Jeff Lofton's 1950s Miles Davis Tribute at One World Theatre drew an impressive crowd during SXSW. Many thanks to the over 200 jazz fans who attended, and the sponsors:
Linda Ball and Forrest Preece, Lord and Lawson Realty, St. James Episcopal Church, home of the Jazz at St. James Festival, DHillsPhotography.com and Satellite Bistro.
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The Jeff Lofton Trio performs original music in the Austin indie drama
"A Swingin' Trio"
which premiered at the
Austin Film Festival.
"... a tense tale of secrets, lies
and revelations interspersed with
the cool jazz stylings
of the Jeff Lofton Trio..."
- Slackerwood
Writer/Director Kelvin Phillips, Jeff Lofton
and Producer Carla Jackson.
"A Swingin' Trio is smart, dark, sexy and unexpectedly funny." - Culture Map
" ... Like any great Austin enterprise, music is central to the production.
A Swingin' Trio refers to the three characters in the film as well as an actual jazz combo, played by the much-acclaimed Jeff Lofton Trio. The group acts as a kind of Greek chorus, who's melodies and rhythms narrate the story as much as the dialogue."
- Culture Map
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Jeff Lofton's
Jazz to the People
Austin Chronicle
Top 9 Austin Albums
of 2009
KUT Top 10 Albums
of 2009: DJ Picks
Available at Amazon.com, Itunes or CDBaby.com
or in Austin at independent record stores
. With nine original compositions by Jeff Lofton
and interpretations of Georgia and Crazy
"... hits the bull's-eye on this sterling local debut that digs a deep groove ... crafted a sound largely around Davis' formative quintet of the late 1950s. ... embraces the blues and swings passionately ... reinforces the Miles connection with the deft use of muted trumpet on soulful strutters ... blows reminiscent of Lee Morgan's Blue Note hits of the mid-1960s. ... a delightfully swingin' affair." - Jay Trachtenberg, The Austin Chronicle, Texas Platters, Music Review
The CD includes Alex Coke on sax, Red Young on piano, Chris Jones on bass
and Masumi Jones on drums, and featuring Danielle Howle on "Crazy."
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