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Article: Live Review

JazzArtSigns Concert at Wheelock Family Theatre, Boston

by Virginia A. Schaefer
April 2, 2006

JazzArtSigns Wheelock Family Theatre Boston, MA March 9, 2006 A JazzArtSigns performance encompasses music, visual art, and words, and it's designed to be artistically as well as physically accessible to everyone in the audience. An exhilarating JazzArtSigns concert drew a sell-out crowd to the Wheelock Family Theatre in Boston ...

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Article: Album Review

Chambers / Berlin / Fiuczynski / Lavitz: Boston T Party

Read "Boston T Party" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins
March 26, 2006

If quirky titles and wacky cover art were award categories, the foursome of Dennis Chambers, Jeff Berlin, Dave Fiuczynski and T Lavitz would score major honors with their new release, Boston T Party. However, those are just attention getters. The real prize is the music--quirky, wild, and most of all, fun. Some of the more interesting ...

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Dennis Chambers / Jeff Berlin / Dave Fiuczynski / T Lavitz: Boston T Party

Read "Boston T Party" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
January 24, 2006

These four jazz fusion artists give Boston T Party something to crow about. Ten tracks mean ten instrumental conversations; the quartet's original compositions are based in the blues, driven like fiery hard rock, and built upon the spontaneity of jazz. Dave Fiuczynski breathes with expressive fire. The action of his electric guitar adds a ...

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Finding His Own Level: Trey Anastasio Live In Boston

by Doug Collette
August 13, 2005

August 4th in Boston was not your Trey Anastasio show on April Fools Day back in Vermont. The two-set performance at the Bank of America Pavilion was, in contrast, well- paced and structured to accent the momentum of the material, much of which was new and served to provide what may have been subliminal focus for ...

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Gov't Mule: Live At The Orpheum Theatre Boston

by Doug Collette
October 30, 2004

Almost a year to the day before their October 15th show at the Orpheum in Boston, Gov't Mule played a truly epic two-set concert at this venerable theatre. Rendering highly-charged versions of their own material early in the concert primed the ecstatic audience for the two-tune collaboration with opener Chris Robinson: a scathing version of David ...

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Article: Interview

Mulgrew Miller Returns To Boston For James Williams Tribute

by Timothy J. O'Keefe
October 14, 2004

Although Boston is not often associated with jazz, parts of the city have been infected with music's syncopating beat. Mulgrew Miller, jazz pianist and one-time Boston resident, returned last weekend to perform at a commemoration for his friend James Williams, a former Berklee College of Music instructor who passed away on July 20, 2004. Miller, a ...

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Article: Jazz Near Me

'83 Alums Terri Lyne Carrington and Makoto Ozone Honored; October Gala to Feature Branford Marsalis '80

by AAJ Staff
March 26, 2004

Two prominent 1983 Berklee alumni, drummer/composer/producer Terri Lyne Carrington, and pianist/composer Makoto Ozone, will receive honorary doctor of music degrees during Berklee College of Music's 2003 Entering Student Convocation on Friday, September 5, 2003. Both individuals will be recognized for their outstanding contributions to contemporary music.Considered a musical prodigy by many, Medford, Massachusetts native ...

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World Percussion & Mallet Keyboard Festival, Vineyard Vibes 2003, and 'Berklee in Puerto Rico' Awards $61K

by AAJ Staff
March 26, 2004

Berklee College of Music presents its annual World Percussion and Mallet Keyboard Festival, June 16-20 on the Berklee campus in Boston. This unique event is an intensive summer course for student percussionists taught by Berklee’s own faculty and special guest instructors from around the world. As part of the festival, the college will present a series ...

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Dr. Dianne Reeves, Students Play Blue Note, David Azarian Benefit

by AAJ Staff
March 26, 2004

Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves will receive an honorary doctor of music degree at Berklee College of Music's 2003 Commencement on Saturday, May 10, along with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. Both Reeves and Tyler will address the more than 600 graduates and approximately 3,000 invited guests. On Commencement eve, as is the Berklee tradition, ...

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Concert Review: First Annual Boston String Improvisors' Festival

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

First Annual Boston String Improvisors' Festival First Parish Church Cambridge, Massachusetts Sunday, October 22, 2000 Lineup: Saturnalia String Trio +1: Jonathan LaMaster, violin Vic Rawlings, cello Mike Bullock, bass Jane Wang, bass www.sublingual.com Jon Rose, violin and ...