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Oz Noy: Schizophrenic
by John Kelman
While other fusion guitarists have received wider international acclaim, Israeli-born, US-resident guitarist Oz Noy has been working in the trenches, slowly amassing a discography as impressive for its writing as it is his tastefully virtuosic playing. Schizophrenic, the guitarist's fourth release since his 2005 Magnatude Records debut, Ha!, demonstrates considerable growth in both departments. Straddling the ...
Dr. John and The Neville Brothers at the Keswick Theatre
by Wade Luquet
Dr. John and The Neville BrothersKeswick TheatreGlenside, PAAugust 25, 2009 Mardi Gras came to the Philadelphia suburbs when Dr. John and The Neville Brothers took over the stage at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, Pennsylvania. The Keswick is an acoustically perfect, fully restored, 1350 seat music venue built in 1928. It ...
Punkt Festival 2009: Day 3, Kristiansand, Norway, September 4, 2009
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 With the musical laboratory that's Punkt Live Remix, it's sometimes possible for a remix to actually surpass its source performance. With (for the most part) Punkt Co-Artistic Directors Jan Bang and Erik Honoré listening to each performance while it's in progress ...
Mountainside Mardi Gras in Denver, Colorado
by Geoff Anderson
Mountainside Mardi Gras Red Rocks Amphitheater Denver, Colorado August 8, 2009 A good-sized chunk of the New Orleans music scene landed at Red Rocks Saturday for an 11-hour funk and Dixieland marathon. Eight different bands and dozens of musicians left their sea level, horizontal environment to play a mile ...
Boosey & Hawkes Lands Global Synch Deal with Savoy Label Group
Boosey & Hawkes (B&H) is pleased to announce its representation of Savoy Label Group, home to veteran jazz label, Savoy Jazz, for synchronization on a worldwide basis. The deal includes all of Savoys label imprints, including the jazz catalogs of Savoy, 32 Jazz, Muse and Landmark, the classical label Denon Classics, and SLGs growing indie rock ...
Jacksonville: Big City, Big Band, Big Plans
by Jack Bowers
Almost everyone who's even mildly interested knows that the big band scene in the US isn't what it used to be. On the other hand, the big bands aren't yet dead, as some alarmists have claimed, or even on life support. Thanks in part to college and armed services programs, there are perhaps as many or ...
Dr. John Coming to the Pageant on Tuesday, August 4
New Orleans pianist and singer Dr. John and his band the Lower 911 will return to St. Louis to play a concert at The Pageant on Tuesday, August 4.The good Doctor has been a frequent visitor to the Gateway City over the years, dispensing his musical gumbo of blues, jazz, R&B and funk most ...
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2009
by Gary Firstenberg
If you want to experience music as wide and as deep as the mighty Mississippi River, it is best to go right to the source. In the lush surroundings of the oldest horse racing track in The Big Easy, the 40th Annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival celebrated a diverse assortment of music, and provided ...
2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
by Joel A. Siegel
The 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival marked the return of pre-Katrina level attendance. Despite the national recession, the festival announced sales of more than 400,000 tickets for the seven-day event over two weekends. As usual, producer Quint Davis did a masterful job blending the various musical components, including New Orleans jazz, national jazz acts, ...
Bobby Broom: Plays For Monk
by Mark Corroto
Monk lives! Perhaps it can be said that Thelonious Monk has had many lives. Ever since the unique pianist established his repertoire in the 1940s and '50s musicians have, probably beginning with saxophonist Steve Lacy, taken up the task of covering the now infamous music. With Plays for Monk, guitarist Bobby Broom delivers one of the ...


