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With each passing year, Winter JazzFest--New York's premiere jazz festival--has expanded the number of venues presenting an increasingly diverse array of musicians. There are several ways to approach a programme as dense and exciting as the 2019 edition of the two-day Marathon spanning January 11th and 12th. Thanks to an embarrassment of riches, festival goers face ...
read moreThe best of jazz is aural poetry. The best of poetry swings and grooves. So it's not surprising that jazz and poetry have had a long and fruitful synergy.
We decided to explore intriguing collaborations between jazz musicians and poets, from the icons of the Beat Generation to Amiri Baraka, from Federico Garcia ...
NYC Winter Jazzfest
The Friday Marathon
New York, NY
January 12, 2018
As the setting sun ushered in the first of two NYC Winter Jazzfest marathon nights on Friday, January 12, the only thing that seemed to be missing was winter itself. After coping with a deep freeze for weeks, ...
Created in Collaboration with Authors/Poets Rowan Ricardo Phillips & Melcion Mateu, Guitarist Miles Okazaki, Pianist Andy Milne, & Drummer Tyshawn Sorey
Upcoming Appearances:
Sunday, April 24-3:30 PM
@ Teatro Latea
(Clemente Soto Velez Cultural &
Educational Center)
Part of the Sant Jordi celebration and in connection with the International ...
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Sin dalle prime note di contrabbasso, che mantiene un pedale e introducono Paris," l'appassionato di Ornette Coleman esulta. Scorrono altre tracce -"L'ironie d'une Jolie Prisse De Téte," dove alberga una definizione sonora di tipo iberico, moderna e spavaldamente veloce, Macanudo Man," una specie di funk sospeso tra la possibilità di farsi fusion e l'impossibilità di appiatirsi ...
read moreBarcelona-born, Brooklyn-based tenor saxophonist Gianni Gagliardi has long been a wanderer. He left his homeland in his teens, relocating to the Netherlands to further his jazz knowledge at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Later moves found him soaking up information at SUNY Purchase in New York, Le Conservatoire National Superior de Paris, Boston's Berklee School of Music, ...
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Composer/Bassist ALEXIS CUADRADO Presents
POETICA: A multi-disciplinary new work by Alexis Cuadrado crossing languages and poetry in collaboration with authors/poets Rowan Ricardo Philips and Melcion Mateu
In Residency at jny: Seeds Brooklyn
April 30 & May 1, 2, 3, 2014
Located at 617 Vanderbilt Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Featuring: Alexis Cuadrado - Composer ...
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The annual rite of writing a best of" list at All About Jazz is a most pleasurable and difficult task; pleasurable for the reflections on great art that come along with the task and difficult because of the need to make hard choices. I've been inspired by dozens of new jazz recordings this year, but I've ...
read moreBassist, bandleader, and innovative composer Alexis Cuadrado has made a name for himself over the last decade with a series of ambitious albums that push the envelope of jazz composition. His latest work A Lorca Soundscape (Sunnyside, 2013) may very well represent the most challenging piece yet to emerge from his restive mind. As thought provoking ...
read moreÈ un grande contrabassista, Alexis Cuadrado, già lo sapevamo. Che sia pure un bravo autore di canzoni è una piacevole sorpresa, anche se avere Garcia Lorca come paroliere non è cosa da poco. Quando tra 1929 e il 1930 l'enfant prodige della poesia iberica trascorse un periodo di studi presso la Columbia University (una sorta di ...
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