The Music of Art Blakey: 90th Birthday Celebration at the Iridium, NYC
Golden Boy: The Music of Art Blakey--90th Birthday Celebration David Weiss and 11 Musicians The Iridium Jazz Club New York, New York December 5, 2009
The great drummer and long-standing band leader Art Blakey would have celebrated his 90th birthday this past October. In honor of that event, ...
The Charles Tolliver Big Band Live at The Iridium Jazz Club
The Charles Tolliver Big Band The Iridium Jazz Club New York, NY October 17, 2009 Charles Tolliver leads a modernist 16 piece big band that pushes the envelope of contemporary orchestral jazz sounds. The Big Band played a four night stand at the Iridium Jazz Club and I was fortunate to catch the ...
Joe Lovano's Flights of Fancy
This has been a banner year for Joe Lovano. He was appointed to the newly created Gary Burton Chair in Jazz Performance at Berklee College of Music, a position he assumed this past September. Recently the Downbeat's Critics and Readers Poll named Joe Lovano as its artist of the year. In the past year, he also ...
