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Benjamin Boone: Confluence: The Ireland Sessions
by Paul Rauch
Saxophonist/composer/educator Benjamin Boone is known as a project artist in the first degree. His collaboration with major modern poets has produced a foursome of albums on the Origin Records label, including two with US Poet Laureate, Philip Levine. His saxophone approach could be described as colorful melodicism, a quality accentuated by Boone's open ended compositions that lack the confinement of dense chordal harmony. His playing can then function off the leash so to speak, darting off in a full spectrum ...
Continue ReadingBenjamin Boone: Confluence - The Ireland Sessions
by Jason Crane
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." --Oliver Wendell Holmes “It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody." --Brendan Behan The Oliver Wendell Holmes quote is loftier, but the Brendan Behan quote gets closer to the heart of the matter on saxophonist Benjamin Boone's new album Confluence: The Ireland Sessions, which finds Boone ...
Continue ReadingQueva Jayne Lutz, Owner of 55 Bar, Dies
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Queva Jayne Lutz died on Thursday, February 22nd at her home in New York City, surrounded by her family and close friends. Queva was unique in the way she led her life. She enjoyed it immensely, as did those with whom she shared it. Whether at her home of 30 years, her famous Randalls Island picnics of 25 years, in the businesses she built or in the many opportunities that presented themselves throughout life, Queva lived to open doors for ...
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On the Banks of the Shannon
From: Confluence: The Ireland SessionsBy JaYne
