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The Art of the Jazz Duo - Playing Alone Together
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Guitarist Howard Alden and pianist Lenore Raphael blended their considerable talents Friday night in a South County Jazz Club concert that concluded its 2013-14 season segment at the Glenridge Performing Arts Center in Sarasota. The New York-based players dug deeply into Great American Songbook standards, and a gritty take on Hoagy Carmichael's “Georgia On My Mind," before concluding their 90-minute performance with a Raphael original. The latter was her Oscar Peterson tribute, “Blues for O.P." The evening underscored the players musical ...
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Danisa Fagan And Dr. Rojo In Palermo, Buenos Aires
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John Allen
On any Wednesday night in Palermo Hollywood, Buenos Aires, Argentina, music lovers can enjoy a sumptuous dinner and listen to the beautiful voice of Danisa Fagan and the fluid guitar of Dr. Rojo (Pablo Maitia). The setting is the elegant “La Trattoria Mattone” in the Argentine capital, a city inspired by Paris, Spain and Italy. Their music is an eclectic mix of jazz, tango, Bossa Nova, French and English standards. Danisa shows complete mastery of Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf ...
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Chihiro Yamanaka Trio At Dizzy's (san Diego), Blue Whale (los Angeles), April 9-10
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SF Media
The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will travel to California to present a series of concerts, starting with Dizzy's in San Diego on April 9 and the Blue Whale in Los Angeles on April 10. The trio, led by dazzling jazz pianist/composer Chihiro Yamanaka, a Universal Music/Blue Note Records artist, features bassist Yasushi Nakamura and drummer Mark Whitfield, Jr.. The concerts are part of a west coast tour that also includes April 11 at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, CA and ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 4-10
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
I am writing under a Winter storm warning. They are not even calling it a Spring storm warning. Driving might be dicey to start out the weekend, but don't be deterred from your focus on great jazz — there is plenty this weekend, worth a slow drive, and by Sunday it should be back to normal, right? Good thing as great music jams up the calendar midweek and beyond with two-night extravaganzas with Brad Mehldau overlapping some creative programming with ...
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Jazz This Week: Cyrus Chestnut and Russell Malone, Claire Chase and Ice, St. Louis Stompers, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's jam-packed calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis offers something for listeners of just about any stylistic preference, from ragtime and traditional New Orleans style to straight-ahead modern jazz to free improvisation and contemporary chamber music. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, pianist Cyrus Chestnut and his trio will team up with guitarist Russell Malone for the first of four nights at Jazz at the Bistro. Revisiting an alliance forged a couple of years ago at ...
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Roger Williams University To Host Free Concert with Jazz Musician Aaron Diehl
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
Roger Williams University to Host Free Concert
with Jazz Musician Aaron Diehl on April 16 Members of the public welcome to attend intimate Live at RWU performance
featuring up- and-coming pianist Aaron Diehl
BRISTOL, RI – At just 29 years old, Aaron Diehl – a “smart young pianist with a fastidious grasp of jazz traditions, ” according to the New York Times – has set the music world ablaze with three critically acclaimed records in just five years. Hot off ...
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Jazz At The Marian Features Jazz Artist Stephanie Jordan On April 3
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Sylvain Music Notes
Jazz artist and New Orleans native Stephanie Jordan will make her Cheyney University debut Thursday, April 3 at 7:30 pm in the Marian Anderson Music Center. Jazz at the Marian is part of the University's Arts and Lectures Series. One reviewer said, “every so often a new voice stands up and proclaims itself, but few do so with such supreme depth and understated soul." Jordan, whom critics have placed in the company of Nancy Wilson and Diana Krall, began to ...
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Table & Chairs Releases Burn List's Debut Album
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Abbey Blackwell
Seattle, WA: The record label Table & Chairs is proud to release the debut album from Burn List, a new collaboration from Seattle’s scorching new music scene features trumpeter Cuong Vu, tenor saxophonist Greg Sinibaldi, keyboardist Aaron Otheim, and drummer Chris Icasiano. Burn List's album will be available on May 13th, and the group will perform at the Chapel in Wallingford on May 14th at 8:00pm to celebrate the release. About Burn List Marking the meeting of two distinctive generations ...
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