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Glitter

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Dry Clean Only; Freight Trane; Gremlin From The Kremlin; Girly Day; The Mean Reds; Step Counter; Theme For Ernie; Mimosa Blues; Glitter.

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Article: Album Review

Amanda Monaco: Glitter

Read "Glitter" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The multi-talented Mae West once said that “personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is." West, of course, thrived in a different era, worked in different formats, and was more than likely addressing another artistic discipline entirely with that ...

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News: Festival

7th Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival Taking Place June 8 & 15 In The Urban Meadow - Red Hook, Brooklyn

7th Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival Taking Place June 8 & 15 In The Urban Meadow - Red Hook, Brooklyn

The 7th annual Red Hook Jazz Festival will take place once again in Brooklyn's Urban Meadow on two consecutive Sundays, June 8 and 15, 2014 from 1-6 PM. As part of its continuing grassroots tradition, the RHJF is a 100% volunteer-run event that receives no major corporate sponsorship beyond in-kind donations from local businesses, nor any ...

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Article: Album Review

Playdate: Playdate

Read "Playdate" reviewed by John Barron


Playdate brings together a trio of long time friends and musical collaborators. Guitarist Amanda Monaco, saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, and pianist Noah Baerman have known each other since high school, studying music together at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, Connecticut. The ensemble is rounded out by bassist Henry Lugo and drummer Vinnie Sperrazza ...

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Playdate: Playdate

Read "Playdate" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


While children spend after school-hours and weekends working on homework and spending time with their families, they also have play dates. They get together with other like-minded friends to let loose and blow off some steam. Musicians often do the same thing and, appropriately enough, three of the five performers on Playdate have been friends since ...

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Article: Live Review

Into the Fire: Winter Jazzfest 2010

Read "Into the Fire: Winter Jazzfest 2010" reviewed by Gordon Marshall


Winter Jazzfest New York, New York January 8-9, 2010 Fast-forward 30 years from the days in the late 1970s and early '80s when the world-weary wisdom that jazz wasn't a living force anymore was whispered to us--maybe you are getting out of jail, maybe waking from a cryogenic sleep. Before this happened, ...

Album

I Think I'll Keep You

Label: LateSet Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: I Think I'll Keep You; Slinky; So Much for Spring; Hckhh Blues; Jitterbug Waltz; Darn that Dream; Co-op Shift; You and the Night and the Music; Haifalutin; It's Like This, See....

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Amanda Monaco

Read "Take Five With Amanda Monaco" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Amanda Monaco: Playing guitar has led Amanda Monaco to perform at the Blue Note, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Birdland, Tonic, Joe's Pub, and the JVC Jazz Festival, as well as other venues in the United States and Europe. Amanda has recorded several CDs as both a leader and a sideman, and has ...

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News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: November 2, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 12 — Joey DeFrancesco Snapshot (HighNote) 229 126 +103 18 64 1 2 2 2 2 Poncho Sanchez Psychedelic Blues (Concord) 224 207 +17 2 59 2 6 3 5 6 Jeff Hamilton Trio Symbiosis (Capri) 223 175 +48 1 50 3 5 4 ...

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Article: Album Review

Joseph C. Phillips, Jr.'s Numinous: Vipassana

Read "Vipassana" reviewed by David Adler


Composer-conductor Joseph C. Phillips, Jr. has a way of making his ensemble, Numinous, sound even larger than its 25 pieces. Of the three wind players, Ed Xiques plays five different instruments, Dan Willis handles six, Ben Kono a grand total of eight. As a result, Vipassana, Phillips' sophomore recording, abounds with nearly every sort of flute, ...


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