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News: Event

Jazz At NEC: September and October Highlights

September 13, 2012

Wednesday, September 19, 1:30 p.m.: Fred Hersch Master Class, Brown Hall On tour to promote his latest two-disc album Alive at the Vanguard, NEC faculty member and alum Fred Hersch will present a master class with his working trio, featuring bassist Drew Gress and drummer Eric McPherson. Thursday, September 27, 1:00 p.m., Jason Moran and Dave ...

Article: Live Review

Lewis Nash All-Stars with Wynton Marsalis, Phoenix, AZ, April 11, 2011

by Patricia Myers
May 19, 2012

Lewis Nash All-Stars with Wynton MarsalisMusical Instrument MuseumPhoenix, AZApril 11, 2012An evening of bebop, swing, Latin and blues celebrated acclaimed drummer Lewis Nash and raised funds for youth programs of Jazz in Arizona. The 35-year-old nonprofit jazz-support organization recently opened The Nash, a performance and youth education center established in Phoenix ...

News: Performance / Tour

Outpost 186 March Highlights: Jacob William

March 3, 2012

Jacob William returns his Para Quintet to Outpost 186 on Saturday March 24th after an interlude of gigs in other dubious roosts. Now that he is once more in the cozier confines of the Outpost, free of the concerns attending tavern work, he'll shine at his usual level of dazzle with his astute and earnest compadres. ...

News: Performance / Tour

Charlie Kohlhase Launches an Outpost 186 Exploration for February

February 1, 2012

After a dismal 2011, in which the Explorers Club only performed once, Boston's beloved cranky yankee polishes his battery of saxophones and follows the groundhog out of midwinter torpor. Over the course of the unrolling spring, saxophonist/composer Charlie Kohlhase will oversee mid month explorations in Inman Squares favorite back yard gallery, Outpost 186. Starting on Thursday, ...

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News: Festival

Art Spaces and Institutions Are Part of the Heart of Jazz Week from JazzBoston

April 28, 2011

Jazz Week begins at lunch hour in Downtown Boston with several free public performances by area music students including the Ecce Trio, led by Henrique Eisenmann (Brazilian jazz, Latin rhythms) holding court at the Prudential Center. South Garden, Fausto Sierkowski's Unit (Improvised music) manning Downtown Crossing and the Gypsy Jazz Duo (Gypsy jazz, folk, blue grass)enhancing ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

John Medeski, Mellotrons and A Mountain of Majoun

by Chris May
March 31, 2011

Club D'ElfElectric Moroccoland / So BelowFace Pelt Records2011 Boston-based Club D'Elf describes itself as a “Moroccan-dosed psychedelic dub and jazz collective." It is the sort of band that gives self-medication a good name, and it will reconfigure your synapses, in a good way, if you let it. ...

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Article: Interview

Pete Robbins: Balance Dream

by Gordon Marshall
August 24, 2010

Pete Robbins is all about balance, in temperament and as an artist. He produces a polished sound on his alto saxophone, with a light tone betraying corners of darkness and complexity. Already an accomplished leader at 31, he grafts his sound onto ensembles of varying sizes with aplomb and equanimity. His style as a leader is ...

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Article: Album Review

Brian Landrus: Forward

Read "Forward" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
April 11, 2010

Forward is a magical sonic journey charted by reeds and woodwinds master, Brian Landrus and explores the tonal depths of the ocean of sound that fewer saxophonists seem to traverse these days. Landrus plays baritone saxophone and bass clarinet on this adventure in sound, as well as alto flute, all of which makes for a breathtaking ...

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Article: Album Review

Brian Landrus: Forward

Read "Forward" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
March 31, 2010

Forward, multi-instrumentalist Brian Landrus' first album, begins by looking back--with a version of Thelonious Monk's “Ask Me Now." This is, perhaps, a nod of recognition to past masters but Landrus' arrangement adds a freshness made even more effective by his use of the baritone sax as the lead instrument. The rest of the album, which was ...

Album

Given - Live In Munster

By Allan Chase

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Given, part 1 - 12:11; 02. Given, part 2 - 3:50; 03. Given, part 3 - 9:41; 04. Given, part 4 - 3:19; 05. Given, part 5 - 13.28; 06. Given, part 6 - 4:57.