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Jazz Pianist Hey Rim Jeon Performs at Ryles Jazz Club on November 3
Korean-born jazz pianist and composer Hey Rim Jeon is performing at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Jeon, an an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music, is performing with Greg Holt on bass, Tim Mayer on sax, and J. Curtis WarnerJr. on drums. Tickets to the performance ...
The Curtis Brothers - Completion of Proof (2011)
The virile, confrontational jazz of the 1960s is reborn on the Curtis Brothers' Completeion of Proof. Siblings Luques and Zaccai Curtis perform in the brash, muscular style of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, even as they confront thorny moral issues with the same veracity as John Coltrane. Luques (bass) and Zaccai (piano) cement the Blakey connection by ...
Opus 5 - Introducing Opus 5 (Criss Cross, 2011)
On January 27, 2011, five veterans of the Mingus Big Band, and heavy-hitters on the mainstream jazz scene in their own right met to record an album under the collective name Opus 5. The band consists of Seamus Blake on tenor saxophone, Alex Sipiagin on trumpet and flugelhorn, David Kikoski on electric and acoustic piano, Donald ...
Copyright Industries Employ Nearly 11 Million Americans...
f you're looking for a hot-button topic to jolt things along, try jobs. According to a report presented by the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus this morning, copyright industries employed 10.6 million Americans in 2010, or nearly 10 percent of the private workforce. You can see where this is going. The report, 'Copyright Industries In the US,' ...
The David Arner Trio: Out/in the Open, 2007
Pianist David Arner is a musical voice that does not fit easily into the various schools of improvisation that are widely influential among the free school of players. He's managed to forge a path that does not cross directly the Cecil Taylors, the Paul Bleys, the Keith Jarretts, or the Bill Evans influenced players. Not that ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, November 4-10
Hints of the holidays are getting stronger every day, but there's also a festive air throughout the area music venues. Jazz is no exception. Highlights This Week Studio Z holds its annual New Music Cabaret, hosted by the experimental music ensemble Zeitgeist and covering a wide range of new music over four nights, November 3-6. Not ...
Twin Cities Jazz Week in Review, October 28 - November 3
Sometimes it's the artists who fly below the radar who give us the most exciting music. And sometimes it's the veteran performer who comes back time and again with something new. There was some of both in the past week at Twin Cities' jazz venues. Herbie Hancock at Orchestra Hall, October 28. Certainly this was the ...
Jazz Face: Happy Birthday, Chick Corea!
One of the icons of 60s and 70s music who has never lost his forward drive, pianist Chick Corea turns 70 this month. And for much of November, he is celebrating at the famed Blue Note in Manhattan with an all-star round-up of past and present collaborators, from duet mates Gary Burton and Herbie Hancock to ...
Pete Townshend: "Rock Music is Junk", iTunes is a "Vampire" and "What's Next is Already Here."
The BBC invited The Who's Pete Townshend to give a lecture in honor of iconic UK broadcaster John Peel. During the wide ranging, smart and often amusing speech, Townsend professed his love of streaming music and called iTunes a vampire. But that was just the start... Pete Townsend: Firstly, I'm honored to have been asked ...
Interview: Chick Corea (Part 2)
When acoustic jazz began to fall on hard times in the 1970s and early 1980s, many fans blamed Chick Corea. After years spent pioneering a successful form of psychedelic jazz-rock fusion with his group Return to Forever, Chick became a lightning rod of sorts for complaints and dismay. Disgruntled jazz fans blamed Chick as well as ...
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The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
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Monktober continues with covers from Abbey Lincoln, Art...
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