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2025 Rochester International Jazz Festival
by Frank Housh
Now in its 22nd year, the Rochester International Jazz Festival is one of North America's finest jazz festivals. On Monday, June 23 I made the one hour from Buffalo and parked adjacent to the street hosting a makeshift food court. June 23 was one of the hottest days of the year in the Genesee ...
Chris Cheek: Songs Of Inspiration And Atonement
by Frank Housh
Chris Cheek's Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory, 2025) was inspired by the suffering and resilience of Native Americans. Cheek grew up in the area of Cahokia Mounds World Heritage & State Park, the largest pre-Columbian site north of Mexico. In his book 1491: New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbus (Knopf, ...
Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo': Room On The Porch
by Frank Housh
In 2017 blues legend Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' recorded TajMo, (Concord Records), which won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Eight years later, the two follow up with Room On The Porch, released May 23, 2025, also on Concord Records. Its ten tracks feel like a cool dive into a swimming hole, long forgotten ...
The Emmet Cohen Trio At Buffalo’s 'Art Of Jazz'
by Frank Housh
The Emmet Cohen TrioBuffalo AKG Art Museum Auditorium Art of Jazz Buffalo, NYMay 19, 2025 The Emmet Cohen Trio closed the 2025 “Art of Jazz" Season with a high-energy performance featuring dynamic interplay and a dive into jazz history. In 2019 Emmet Cohen received the American Pianists Association's ...
Jo-Yu Chen: Rendezvous - Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More
by Frank Housh
New York-based pianist and composer Jo-Yu Chen treats the great composers like most jazz musicians treat the Great American Songbook: a familiar musical foundation upon which to build a musical style. Chen trained at Juilliard but was seduced by jazz's siren song. Her first four albums: Obsession (Sony Music, 2011), Incomplete Soul (Sony Music, ...
Vieux Farka Toure at Kleinhans Music Hall
by Frank Housh
Vieux Farka Toure Kleinhans Music HallBuffalo, NYApril 27, 2025 A spinning top occasionally wobbles. Our spinning earth does the same thing: it's called the “Chandler Wobble." Because of the Chandler Wobble, monsoon rains in the Sahara appear then disappear every 21,000 years. This alternating cycle of “Green Sahara" and Sahara Desert ...
Christian Pabst: Rhythm Riot
by Frank Housh
On April 4, 2025, Italian-based German pianist and composer Christian Pabst released Rhythm Riot, his sixth album. All songs are composed by Pabst and feature bassist André Nendza and drummer Erik Kooger, with whom he recorded Balbec (JazzSick Records, 2021). Rhythm Riot is a satisfying musical exploration from three rising contributors to an iconic ...
Kinan Azmeh: Live in Berlin
by Frank Housh
Clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh occupies a unique space in the musical world. He is grew up with Western classical music and trained at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus as well as Juilliard, where he began his studies one week before the 9/11 attacks. His expansive and eclectic body of work includes ...
Dena DeRose at The Buffalo AKG Art Museum
by Frank Housh
Dena DeRose Trio The Buffalo AKG Art Museum Auditorium Buffalo, NY February 2, 2025 Binghamton native Dena DeRose returned to upstate New York February 2, 2025 to kick off the 2025 “Art of Jazz" series at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. She and her trio heated up the newly renovated Lipsey ...
Cecile McLorin Salvant at Slee Hall
by Frank Housh
Cecile McLorin Salvant Slee Hall at University of Buffalo Buffalo, NY February 9, 2024 The word is “trobairitz;" it refers to female troubadours of the Middle Ages who performed some of Western music's first secular songs (and the first composed by women) in the area south of the Loire Valley, what ...
