Results for "Armen Donelian"

Tickets now on sale for Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, Oct. 7-20 Concerts Featuring Grace Kelly, Phil Woods, Armen Donelian

September 2, 2011

Free events include annual jazz crawl, new jazz prodigy series PITTSFIELD, Mass.—BerkshiresJazz.org today announced that Grace Kelly, Phil Woods, Armen Donelian, Greg Caputo, and the BerkshiresJazz Youth Ensemble will be among the performers at the 2011 Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, October 7-20. Now in its seventh year, the festival comprises some two dozen concerts and events throughout ...

Armen Donelian: Leapfrog

by Dan Bilawsky
August 23, 2011

While cohesion and individuality, by their very definitions, may seem to be at odds with one another, the music on Leapfrog reconciles these two opposing ideals without a problem. For his ninth date on the Sunnyside label, pianist Armen Donelian has together a program of strikingly modern originals that showcase the cutting edge talent and simpatico ...

Ahmad Jamal's Identity Crisis

by Fradley Garner
August 6, 2011

Ahmad Jamal's Identity CrisisAhmad Jamal aterrorist? Surely not the renowned American pianist who's given hundreds of concerts over the last half century. So it was puzzling why the $10,000 that the Festival da Jazz in Moritz, Switzerland ordered paid to Jamal in advance of his July 16 appearance, was promptly frozen by U.S. authorities. ...

Pianist/Composer Armen Donelian's New Sunnyside CD "Leapfrog" to be Released Sept. 13

July 20, 2011

Pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator Armen Donelian has carved out an enviable career spanning four decades, including seminal stints with Sonny Rollins, Billy Harper, Chet Baker, and Mongo Santamaria. His new album Leapfrog, his ninth release for Sunnyside, due for release September 13, should go a long way in rectifying his relatively unsung status as an ...

Armen Donelian/Marc Mommaas Duo at University of the Streets on April 13th

April 13, 2011

Armen Donelian Trio Performing at Castle Street Cafe in Great Barrington This Friday, April 8

April 8, 2011

The Armen Donelian Trio is performing at the Castle Street Cafe in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on Friday, April 8, 2011 from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Led by Armenian-born composer and jazz pianist Armen Donelian, the trio includes drummer George Schuller and bassist David Clark. Located at 10 Castle Street in Great Barrington, the Castle Street Cafe ...

Armen Donelian Trio at Smalls

April 7, 2011

Armen Donelian Trio at Smalls Jazz Club Thursday, April 7, 9:30pm (Happy Birthday to my mentor, Mongo Santamaria!) Armen Donelian, piano David Clark, bass George Schuller, drums Smalls Jazz Club 183 West 10 Street New York City, NY (212) 252-5091 ...

Thelonious Monk: Pianists Riff on Monk

by George Kanzler
October 12, 2009

This month, over a dozen pianists will participate in a free concert, Thelonious Monk at 92, at the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan. Seven of them, and two other pianists with an abiding interest in Monk, answered questions about Monk's music and more specifically, his piano playing, as influence and inspiration. Jazz ...

2009 Hudson Summer Jazz Workshop

May 20, 2009

Third Annual 2009 HUDSON SUMMER JAZZ WORKSHOP Armen Donelian & Marc Mommaas, Faculty Special Guest, Dave Liebman Thursday, August 13 - Sunday, August 16 Hudson, NY Pianist Armen Donelian and saxophonist Marc Mommaas present the third annual Hudson Summer Jazz Workshop, an inspiring and intimate jazz ...

Oasis

By Armen Donelian

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 1. Oasis - 5:24; 2. Spree - 7:57; 3. Sunrise, Sunset (Bock/Harnick (8:32); 4. Waiting For Flora - 7:09; 5. Django (Lewis) - 5:13; 6. Easy Does It - 6:30; 7. Lady Of Ghent - 7:14; 8. Sans Souci - 4:06. Ove non indicato i brani sono di Armen Donelian.