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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Slippery Rock

Read "Slippery Rock" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 17, 2013

Strangely enough, bandleader and bassist Moppa Elliot derived inspiration for his compositions on Slippery Rock from smooth jazz albums of the late 1970s and '80s. However, it's more like smooth jazz under siege; with resonating rhythms, scorching and wily horns choruses, the program offers subliminal detections of commercial jazz fare as the band often breaks into ...

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MIT Jazz Program Celebrates 50 Years With A Corea Premiere

February 1, 2013

MIT Music and Theater Arts is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its jazz program. From the 1920s up until 1963, student-led jazz groups and student-produced concerts abounded on the MIT Campus. Over the years, the jazz groups included the MIT Dance Orchestra, the MIT Techtonians, and the MIT Jazz Society. On campus performances were presented by ...

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NPR Music And WBGO FM Present The Checkout – Live At Berklee With Jaleel Shaw

January 18, 2013

The Checkout – Live at Berklee, which brings critically acclaimed, New York-based Berklee alumni back to their alma mater for concerts in The Red Room at Cafe 939, continues on Thursday, February 7 with rising alto and soprano saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, a 2000 Berklee graduate. Shaw will be performing with alumnus pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Boris ...

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A Rare Shipp And Bisio Duo Sighting In Cambridge At Outpost 186

January 15, 2013

On Saturday, January 19th, Matthew Shipp returns to Cambridge, MA after a lengthy absence. And once again, he’ll be gracing the cozy confines of Outpost 186 in ever louche Inman Square. This visit will include consummate gentleman and astute bassist, Michael Bisio, with excursions through his disc, Floating Ice, on Relative Pitch Records. It has been ...

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Manami Morita: When Skies Are Grey

Read "When Skies Are Grey" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
January 7, 2013

Japanese pianist Manami Morita has made a name for herself in Boston since arriving in 2006 to study at Berklee College of Music. Whether solo, in guitarist Colin Cannon's quartet or leading her own trio, Morita's impressive technique harnesses energy and finesse in equal measure, qualities to the fore on her fourth release as leader. Morita ...

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New England Conservatory's Jazz Studies & Contemporary Improvisation Departments Present Nearly 60 Free Performances For The Spring 2013 Season

January 7, 2013

Highlights include Miguel Zenon's Multi-Media Masterpiece: Identities Are Changeable: Tales From The Diaspora Randy Weston with the NEC Jazz Orchestra Faculty Recitalby Fred Hersch and Tanya Kalmanovitch In The Mix - 36 one-hour concerts by exceptional student ensembles – and many more New England Conservatory’s internationally renowned Jazz Studies and Contemporary Improvisation Departments announce nearly 60 ...

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Introducing Yuto Kanazawa & Earthwards Feb 13 At Scullers

December 22, 2012

Boston, MA—Scullers Jazz Club will present Yuto Kanazawa and Earthwards on Wednesday, February 13 at 8 PM. Tickets at $20.00 are on sale now at scullersjazz.com or by calling, 617-562-4111. Scullers Jazz Club is located in the Doubletree Suites by Hilton Hotel at 400 Soldiers Field Road in Allston, Massachusetts. The club is wheelchair accessible and ...

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Signature Music Series At Berklee Presents Terri Lyne Carrington, The Music Of Quincy Jones And More

December 19, 2012

The Signature Music Series at Berklee presents an extraordinary season of jazz, R&B, soul, Celtic, and musical theater performances by a cross-section of Berklee students, faculty and alumni, and world-renowned, award-winning musicians. The spring 2013 half of the series features Terri Lyne Carrington’s Money Jungle (February 14), Great American Songbook: The Music of Quincy Jones (February ...

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Kim Kashkashian: Kurtag/Ligeti: Music for Viola

Read "Kurtag/Ligeti: Music for Viola" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
December 3, 2012

There are more jokes about the viola, perhaps, than any other member of the violin family, but there are also exquisitely written pieces of music that in the hands of virtuosos come alive with vivid emotion and erudite articulation. Boston-based Kim Kashkashian is one of the premier violists in the world and has ...

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Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: 40th Annual Christmas Concert -- Dec. 15, 2012

November 29, 2012

Jerry Edwards, Grace Hughes, and Donna Hewitt-Didham, vocalists Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 8:00 pm Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116 Admission: $15 Information: 617-776-8778 or 617-452-3205 Praised by CultureJazz.Fr (France) for “expansive harmony, brilliant music...discipline, openness, and freedom,” the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra will present its 40th Annual ...