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Liberty Ellman Trio at Crescent Arts Centre
Liberty Ellman Trio
Crescent Arts Centre
jny:Belfast, N. Ireland
April 13, 2018
Liberty Ellman was short his pedals for this Moving On Music gig at Crescent Arts Centre--lost somewhere in transit--but he certainly wasn't short of musical ideas during a constantly engaging ninety-minute set. With four releases in twenty ...
Chad Taylor: Myths and Music Education
Few drummers know how to use rhythms like Chad Taylor. He makes the drum set sing melodies and paints different hues and shades on the cymbals and skins. He can play inside and outside and has performed with musicians like saxophonists Fred Anderson, Pharoah Sanders and James Brandon Lewis, pianists Cooper-Moore and Angelica Sanchez, guitarists Jeff ...
read moreAlberto Pinton: la nostra parte del puzzle
Scrivere di Alberto Pinton è una delle occasioni ghiotte che speravo di avere collaborando occasionalmente con la divulgazione “giornalistica" del jazz. Sapendo bene di non essere un tecnico della scrittura, ma un semplice veneratore del linguaggio, mi avvicino all'impresa con le cuffie, chiudendo il mondo fuori per la durata di un disco.
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Dafnis Prieto Big Band: Back to the Sunset
The alliance of Latin music and American jazz ripened on these shores more than seventy years ago, nourished by pioneers such as Mario Bauza, Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie, Machito, Tito Puente and others. It has been carried forward and enhanced since then by a succession of remarkable innovators including in recent years the Cuban-born drummer Dafnis ...
read moreDafnis Prieto Big Band: Back to the Sunset
The astonishingly talented and prolific drummer Dafnis Prieto has done a lot since moving to the States from his native Cuba in 1999. He's made a host of sideman appearances with musicians of widely varying stripes, including Peter Apfelbaum, Michel Camilo, Steve Coleman, Marilyn Lerner, Brian Lynch, Henry Threadgill, Chucho Valdés, and John Zorn. He won ...
read moreMetastasio Jazz 2018
Metastasio Jazz 2018
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26.1-19.2.2018
“Lingue oltre i confini" era il tema attorno al quale si è quest'anno strutturata la rassegna pratese Metastasio Jazz, giunta alla ventitreesima edizione e della quale ci ha parlato Stefano Zenni in una recente intervista. Un tema ben incorniciato dai concerti d'inizio e ...
Dafnis Prieto: Cross-Cultural Mix
Dafnis Prieto is one of the leading drummers and composers of his generation. Forty-four years old and Cuban born, Prieto moved to jny: New York City in 1999. The early 2000's found Prieto employed as a sideman by several prominent musicians, including Eddie Palmieri, Michel Camilo, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Dave Samuels and Arturo O'Farrill. In the following ...
read moreDafnis Prieto: una miscela di culture
Dafnis Prieto è uno dei massimi batteristi e compositori della sua generazione. 44 anni, nato a Cuba, Prieto è emigrato nel 1999 a New York dove ha iniziato a collaborare con i massimi leader latini (Eddie Palmieri, Michel Camilo, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Arturo O'Farrill) e con esponenti d'avanguardia come Henry Threadgill e Steve Coleman. Dotato di una ...
read moreKairos Sextet: Transition
Since coming to New York in '99, visionary Cuban drummer/percussionist/educator Dafnis Prieto has been the heartbeat in bands led by Henry Threadgill, Eddie Palmieri, Michel Camilo, Chucho Valdez, Bebo Valdez, Roy Hargrove, and Andrew Hill. He's found the time to be nominated for an '07 Grammy for Best Latin Album, Absolute Quintet (Soho, 2006); win a ...
read moreJazz Musician of the Day: Henry Threadgill
All About Jazz is celebrating Henry Threadgill's birthday today!
Henry Threadgill first performed as a percussionist in his high school marching band before taking up the baritone saxophone and later a large portion of the woodwind instrument family. He soon settled primarily upon the alto saxophone and the flute... Read more.
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Straight Ahead by George Kahn
Story of the Day
I love jazz because it takes my mind away and is very relaxing. I was first exposed to jazz by my older brother every morning while eating breakfast before school he would play Hiroshima One which I hated but after he moved away to college and I moved to Miami I fell in love with jazz music.
By Calvin Lattery
Member since: 2017
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Sonata for the Birds -Cheryl Pyle
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Cheryl Pyle
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Cheryl Pyle -Beyond Flute solo flute explorations and improvisations
