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Paris Bossa - Gary Bartz
Featuring the music of Gary Bartz
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McCoy Tyner Trio with Gary Bartz: New York, NY, September 1, 2011

by Lawrence Peryer
McCoy Tyner Trio with Gary BartzBlue NoteNew York, NYSeptember 1, 2011 With all of the thunder and lightning he has summoned for more than fifty years, pianist McCoy Tyner kicked off eight sets over four nights at Manhattan's Blue Note Jazz Club on Thursday, September 1, 2011. ...
Roseanna Vitro: Following Her Muse

by Dan Bilawsky
While the back panel of vocalist Roseanna Vitro's The Music Of Randy Newman (Motéma, 2011) says File Under: Jazz/Pop/Vocals," those labels don't do her justice. Vitro's vocals are a conduit to the very core of American music--from blues and rock to soul and jazz--and her recorded output over the past three decades speaks to her talents ...
Jacksonville Jazz Festival Line-up
The City of Jacksonville is proud to announce an exciting lineup of performances for the 2011 Jacksonville Jazz Festival scheduled for Thursday, May 26 through Sunday, May 29. All festival performances and elements are free and open to the public unless otherwise listed. This year's festival will continue the tradition of jazz in Jacksonville with a ...
Yo Miles! Revisited: Lightning and Shinjuku

by John Kelman
Amongst the plethora of tributes to trumpet icon Miles Davis' electric period on Columbia, beginning with 1969's In a Silent Way and ending with 1975's Agharta and Pangaea, only a few stand out as being truly reverential--not just to the electrified energy and jungle funk of the music, but to its undeniably avant leanings as well. ...
Benjamin Drazen: Inner Flights

by A. Lienhard
Alto saxophonist Benjamin Drazen has been plying his trade around Manhattan's network of small jazz bars--places like 55 Bar, Smalls, and The Garage--for over a decade. At long last, the New York native unveils his debut outing, Inner Flights. In a program of mostly original music, Drazen consistently delivers strong post-Coltrane fire, with a sound that ...
Hughes' Blues: The Langston Hughes Songbook
We know Langston Hughes as a celebrated African-American author of poems, essays, stories, memoirs and more. But Hughes also wrote songs-hundreds of them. Music was at the heart of his work, with jazz and blues informing the cadences, structures, and subject matter of many of his poems. In an early essay, The Negro Artist and the ...
Jazz Bridge Presents Orrin Evans!

Appearing at the Collingswood Community Center, 30 E. Collings Ave, in Collingswood, NJ, on February 3, 2011 will be pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Mike Boone, and drummer Anwar Marshall. One Show: 7:30-9 p.m. Admission: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. Free Refreshments! For info: 856-858-8914 Heralded by jazz critic Ben Ratliff of the New York Times ...
Charles Fambrough: A Friend Unlike Any Other, R.I.P.

by Mark Kramer
For my dear friend Charles, my second Brother: Bassist Charles Fambrough, born in Philadelphia on August 25th, 1950 and known as Broski," died on January 1st, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. with his daughter and wife at his side. Reportedly, he ever-so-gently squeezed their hands as he held them, and smiled. Then he was gone. ...
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collectors' Edition

by Chris M. Slawecki
Historic debate over the relevance and merits of trumpeter Miles Davis' seminal jazz-rock fusion masterwork Bitches Brew (Columbia), especially upon this year's 40th anniversary of its original 1970 release, could fill every page of even a paperless internet jazz e-zine (a body of work to which Greg Tate's companion essay adds: Bitches is a multi-clawed, multi-tentacled, ...