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Freddie Hubbard Returns to the Scene with "On the Real Side"

May 23, 2008

The Hub is back. To herald Freddie Hubbard's triumphant return to the scene, at age 70, Times Square Records will nationally release on June 24 On The Real Side, his first outing as a leader in seven years. Again backed by The New Jazz Composers Octet, which accompanied the iconic trumpeter on his 2001 release New ...

Kornstad-Opsvik-Taborn-Smith @ Nublu on Memorial Day

May 23, 2008

This Monday, May 18th 10pm at Nublu 62 Avenue C, between 4th and 5th Street, NYC F train to 2nd avenue or L train to 1st avenue, look for small blue lamp above door $5 after 10pm Hakon Kornstad - tenor sax ...

L.A. Doctors Symphony in Concert

May 23, 2008

Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra in Concert Sunday June 1st With Oboist David Weiss Conductor Ivan Shulman Founded in 1953, the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra, presently under the leadership of Music Director and Conductor, Ivan Shulman, is one of the oldest community orchestras in the United States having its origin in ...

Doors Drummer John Densmore's "Tribaljazz" @ Keswick Friday, June 6

May 23, 2008

"Break on Through" to Tribaljazz! JOHN DENSMORE'S TRIBALJAZZ Exclusive Central Atlantic Concert! KESWICK THEATRE 291 Keswick Ave., Glenside, PA FRI., JUN. 6, 8 PM Tickets on sale NOW! “I've been mouthing off about being a jazz drummer since before The Doors," John Densmore relates. “Thirty years ...

"Bound to Go": Illuminating Legacy of African American Folk Tradition

May 23, 2008

Bound To Go: Illuminating Legacy of African American Folk Tradition: Andrew Calhoun & Campground Breathe New Life Into Spirituals, Shout Songs, Prison Ballads Nashville, TN -- Bound To Go is a landmark collection of 35 songs from the African American folk tradition that includes spirituals, shout songs from the Sea Islands, prison ballads and secular songs. ...

Return to Forever: Flight of the Reborn

May 23, 2008

By: Dennis Cook Return To Forever Return To Forever is back. For those in the know, a happy shiver runs up your spine, and for the uninitiated there's a world of treats in store during their upcoming summer tour that kicks off May 29 at the Paramount Theater in ...

Grand Theft Auto with a Classic Jazz Beat

May 23, 2008

The new Grand Theft Auto IV game has been rocking the country (not to mention the television airwaves--I've seen the ad countless times in the past couple of weeks), racking up millions of sales and even more millions of dollars. The commercial features a standard, pulsing rock-hiphop soundtrack sample, but Downbeat notes that the new edition ...

Billy Taylor and Charles Mingus at Storyville

May 23, 2008

Upper East Side Big Band Plays Abbey Road

May 23, 2008

The Beatles will get the “re-arranged for big band" treatment this Friday at the National on the top of an eclectic bill stacked with local Richmond bands. “Abbey Road" in its entirety is the album being conquered; Samson Trinh's Upper East Side Big Band is the ensemble up for the challenge. “It's been a dream for ...

Johnny Griffin is 80

May 23, 2008

Tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin recently entered his eighty-first year, still living and playing at full--or nearly full--speed. Martin Gayford today observed Griffin's longevity and vigor in a piece in the British newspaper the Telegraph. Here's an excerpt:   He was described by Richard Cook in his Jazz Encyclopaedia as “the fastest tenorman of them all". ...