Content by tag "Danilo Perez"

NEWS: EDUCATION October 6, 2019

New England Conservatory Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of Groundbreaking Jazz Department

In recognition and celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Jazz Studies department and the Jazz Studies program, New England Conservatory is hosting Jazz50, a year- long series of concerts and events. On stage will be the distinguished jazz alumni, faculty, students and special guests offering an incredible array of musical and compositional talent. Performances are to ...
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ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEWS September 13, 2019

2019 Detroit Jazz Festival

By C. ANDREW HOVAN

Detroit Jazz Festival
Hart Plaza
Detroit, Michigan
August 30-September 2, 2019

According to the official count, the 40th edition of the largest free jazz festival in North America drew a record crowd numbering some 325,000. Boasting four stages as part of the festival footprint, there seemed to be a reduction in ...

ARTICLE: INTERVIEWS September 12, 2019

Trish Clowes: Sounding Colors, Playing With Gravity

By IAN PATTERSON

If it hadn't been that day, twenty some years ago when the young Trish Clowes first felt the pull of the tenor saxophone, it would surely have been another.

Barely in her teens at the time, Shropshire-born saxophonist and award-winning composer Clowes already played piano, clarinet and sang when she went to see her ...

ARTICLE: OUT AND ABOUT: THE SUPER FANS September 4, 2019

Meet Andrew Rothman

By TESSA SOUTER AND ANDREA WOLPER

Lawyer, audiophile, lifelong arts enthusiast, our newest Super Fan's life plan was to be a classical pianist, until college took him in another direction. But it was two “major epiphanies" (the first time he heard Miles Davis and, later, Bill Evans) that turned him into a jazz Super Fan--such a Super Fan, in fact, that he ...

ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEWS July 5, 2019

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2019

By JOHN KELMAN

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
Various Venues
Montréal, Canada
June 27 -July 1, 2019

Forty years. Not a lifetime, perhaps, but a remarkably long time for any festival to not only continue to exist but, despite increasing challenges, to thrive. An even greater achievement when it's the Festival International de ...

ARTICLE: TAKE FIVE WITH... May 28, 2019

Take Five With Greg Burk

By GREG BURK

About Greg Burk

Following his acclaimed 2016 release Clean Spring on SteepleChase Records, American pianist and composer Greg Burk returns with solo piano As A River--his 12th and most lyrical album to date.

The son of classical musicians, Burk spent his formative years on the jny: Detroit jazz scene, followed by studies ...

ARTICLE: RADIO April 19, 2019

Mosaic Blow-Out, Anita @ 100 & More

By MARC COHN

So, my log book reminded me it was time to play some Fats Waller, and the Savory box just arrived from Mosaic, which contains fabulous Waller airchecks. Done! Well, one thing lead to another, and as you see below, more Mosaics screamed for attention. Anita O'Day is 100 in the Fall--time for a warmup with Sings ...

ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEWS March 30, 2019

Salvant, Skonberg, Aldana And More At Kimmel Center

By VICTOR L. SCHERMER

Cecile McLorin Salvant, Bria Skonberg, Melissa Aldana, Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura and Jamison Ross
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
March 23, 2019

While some jazz festivals sponsor tours that highlight their more seasoned icons, Monterey was different in ...

ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEWS March 29, 2019

Children of the Light al Teatro Golden di Palermo

By MAURIZIO ZERBO

Children of the Light: Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Terri Lyne Carrington.
Nomos Jazz 2019
Teatro Golden
Palermo
15.3.2019

ConTerri Lyne Carrington al posto di Brian Blade, il trio di Danilo Perez ha raggiunto risultati oggi difficilmente eguagliabili sul piano della logica jazzistica improvvisativa e dello spazio sonoro. Lo testimonia mirabilmente ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEWS May 15, 2019

Rogerio Boccato: No Old Rain