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Vocal Music in the Elm City and CD Pick
The Fall 09 season at Firehouse 12, 45 Crown Street in New Haven, continues this week with the Amy Cervini Quartet playing 2 shows Friday night (12/11) at 8:30 and 10 p.m. Ms. Cervini and band (brother Ernesto on drums, bassist Mark Lau and pianist Michael Cabe) are in the midst of a short tour that ...
CD Reviews: Stories Real and Incomplete
Stories in Real Time - Darryl Harper (HiPNOTIC) - There is nothing more exciting for a reviewer/listener to discover an artist that makes such a positive impression on first listen. Though this is clarinetist/composer Darryl Harper's 5th CD as a leader, it's the first time for me and this is one fine project. Born ...
Firehouse Excitement + CD Reviews
Wesleyan graduate, cohort of Professor Anthony Braxton and Taylor Ho Bynum, leader of duo with violist Jessica Pavone, Mary Halvorson brings her Quintet to Firehouse 12 in New Haven for 2 sets of exciting and challenging jazz. The guitarist, whose debut CD “Dragon's Head“ (Firehouse 12 label), made many a Top 10 list in 2008, has ...
Giving Thanks 2009
Quite a year so far--civility, always in short supply, seems to be heading for extinction. Politics and politicians are polarized (am I that much of an idealist to think there was a time and a cause where conservatives and liberals actually worked to better our country, state or town?) How odd it must seem to people ...
Catching up (Part 3)
Hush Money - Erik Deutsch (Hammer & String Records) - I've seen Erik Deutsch's name on several CDs and have heard him with Charlie Hunter's Trio but, honestly, that did not prepare me for how impressive this recording, his 2nd as a leader, is. If I had heard his 2007 debut, “Fingerprint" (Sterling Circle), his love ...
CD Reviews: Organ, Guitar and Drums
Snap Shot: The Original Trio - Joey DeFrancesco (High Note) - On this new CD, Joey D and his long-time drummer Byron Landham are reunited with guitarist Paul Bollenbeck - the trio toured and recorded together for 13 years until the guitarist went off to his own successful solo career in 2002. As in ...
Live and Living Music November 20 + CD Pick of the Week
Pianist-composer-double bassist John Funkhouser is a man of many talents. He teaches “ear training" at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and plays in several ensembles. He has worked with artists and ensembles as far-ranging as vocalist Luciana Souza, Mark Harvey's Aardvark Orchestra and the MIT Wind Ensemble. He and his Trio mates, ...
CD Reviews: Playing Catch-up (Part 1)
Perennial - Rob Garcia 4 - BJU Records) - Part of the allure of drummer/composer's Garcia 3rd CD as a leader was the anticipation of hearing the young saxophonist Noah Preminger and pianist Dan Tepfer. Preminger, a Hartford-area native, had an excellent debut CD last year ("Dry Bridge Road“) while Tepfer has shown remarkable range, working ...
Happy Birthday Bob Brookmeyer (a Good Reason to Go to Rochester in December)
I received the following email today and am happy to share its contents with all readers and fans of good music. Brookmeyer Celebration - Wednesday, December 2, 2009 in Rochester, NY The Jazz Studies Department at the Eastman School of Music is proud to present a true jazz legend; composer, valve trombonist and conductor ...
Live Music: Noah B's "Know Thyself" and Peter E "Trumpeter"
Another exciting weekend of live music coming with 2 of the best events happening around the same time on Friday November 13.Late last year, I picked up a DownBeat magazine and saw a listing of 2008 grants winners. On that list was Noah Baerman, pianist/composer/teacher/author and Middletown resident. He'd received a “New Works" grant ...
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