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20 Years Of Jazz In The Park Celebrated With Great Concerts At Serralves Museum Of Contemporary Art, Portugal: July 2011
In 2011 Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates the 20th edition of Jazz in the Park, a summer jazz festival that takes place in Serralves 18 ha Park. To commemorate this 20th anniversary, Serralves presents some great musical moments. The concerts will take place on July 10, 16, 23 and 30, at 6 p.m. For Antonio ...
Take Five With The Brett Sandler Trio
by AAJ Staff
Meet The Brett Sandler Trio: Brett Sandler: I'm a classically trained pianist who began studying Jazz in college. I started composing my own jazz tunes after listening to Wayne Shorter for the first time. I love music, movies, and videogames and enjoy spending my time on those three pursuits. I grew up in Rocky ...
Itai Kriss: The Shark
by Dan Bilawsky
New and/or notable flute voices in jazz don't seem to come around very often. While scores of saxophonists double on this instrument, very few players that enter the jazz trenches are pure flautists, through and through. When a musician makes the decision to focus solely on an instrument like the flute, they might be narrowing their ...
Icons Among Us Visits Detroit, Wednesday June 15 at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Episode One: A Quiet Revolution to screen at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Wednesday June 15 @ 6:30 pm Spread the word to your friends in Detroit. This FREE screening of the modern jazz documentary's first episode throws the spotlight on the emergence of new waves of artists and their relationships with their ...
Alexis Cuadrado: Noneto Ibérico
by Mark F. Turner
Bassist Alexis Cuadrado imparts his vernacular as a composer in Noneto Ibérico, a nine-movement work commissioned by The Chamber Music America-Doris Duke Foundation's “New Works" program. With a potent nine-piece band that includes Alan Ferber, Avishai Cohen, and others, Cuadrado puts a fresh timestamp on Spanish Flamenco and modern jazz with writing in the vein of ...
Omer Avital: Free Forever
by Charles Walker
Omer AvitalFree ForeverSmalls Records2011 Bassist Omer Avital is not a household name. Despite a surge of media coverage about the rise of Israeli expats on the New York jazz scene, despite playing a central role in a variety of ensembles at the now-beloved Smalls jazz club, and ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Avishai Cohen
All About Jazz is celebrating Avishai Cohen's birthday today! Avishai CohenBassist/Composer Avishai Cohen, born April 20, 1970 in Israel, a musician who has been called a “jazz visionary of global proportions” by DownBeat... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Avishai Cohen Put AAJ's Musician of the ...
Avishai Cohen: Trumpet Trio Makes Strong Mark
by R.J. DeLuke
Avishai Cohen is a trumpeter of substantial talent, working hard on his craft and career, making strides that are tangible. The steps that he takes, the bands that he plays with, are impressive. There are a lot of good young trumpeters out there, and he's situated squarely in their lot. Early this year, he ...
Diego Urcola: Musical Ecstasy
by R.J. DeLuke
Jazz music, its freedom and emphasis on self-expression through improvisation, has always had a strong pull on its practitioners, its artists. As fans and listeners, those qualities are also treasured. The infectious nature of those qualities is why jazz fans are passionate and loyal. It's music, born and bred in the United States, that has a ...
Avishai Cohen: Seven Seas
by Nenad Georgievski
Over the past few years, bassist Avishai Cohen has become recognized as one of the most creative musicians of current times. A fertile composer of the highest rank, he has, among other things, enriched and expanded the genre he works in: a master of the upright bass, an improviser of not-so-often-seen genius, and a bandleader with ...
