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43 Voll-Damm Festival de Jazz de Barcelona: Michel Camilo, Madeleine Peyroux y Buena Vista Social Club
by Enrique Turpin
Michel Camilo 'Mano a Mano' con Charles Flores y Giovanni Hidalgo43 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaPalau de la Música Catalana16 de noviembre de 2011Algo debe de tener el Caribe para que de las tierras que bañan sus aguas emerjan cada tanto músicos volcánicos, mercuriales, de potencial arrollador y sensibilidad ...
Falkner Evans: The Point of the Moon
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Pianist Falkner Evans is a distant relative of the great American novelist William Faulkner, by the same obscure Southern logic by which Al Gore and Gore Vidal are related. He is also a former pianist for the tight Western swing outfit Asleep at the Wheel and leader of an acclaimed piano trio.Evans's famed ancestor ...
Maria Schneider: Voll-Damm International Jazz Festival, Barcelona, Spain, October 20, 2011
by Enrique Turpin
Maria Schneider Orchestra 43rd Voll-Damm International Jazz Festival Barcelona, Spain October 20, 2011 Legend has it that a girl from Windom, in the agrarian depths of Minnesota, conquered territories banned to her human nature. They claimed that Maria Schneider, the name by which that little girl still goes by, had the ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra en el 43 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona
by Enrique Turpin
Maria Schneider Orchestra43 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaPalau de la Música CatalanaJueves, 20 de octubre de 2011Quienes conocían la leyenda contaban que una chica de Windom, en las profundidades agrarias de Minesota, había conquistado territorios vetados a su condición humana. Pregonaban que Maria Schneider, nombre por el que todavía ...
Rich Perry: Nyack, NY, July 24, 2011
by David A. Orthmann
Rich PerryOlive'sNyack, NYJuly 24, 2011 The opening night of Nyack Jazz Week 2011, an annual event which encompassed a variety of acts and venues, kicked off at Olive's with a set by tenor saxophonist Rich Perry. Best known for his tenure with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and the Maria Schneider ...
20 Years Of Jazz In The Park Celebrated With Great Concerts At Serralves Museum Of Contemporary Art, Portugal: July 2011
In 2011 Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates the 20th edition of Jazz in the Park, a summer jazz festival that takes place in Serralves 18 ha Park. To commemorate this 20th anniversary, Serralves presents some great musical moments. The concerts will take place on July 10, 16, 23 and 30, at 6 p.m. For Antonio ...
Various Artists: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat: Disney Jazz Volume 1
by Larry Taylor
What a discovery; what a great idea. Producer Jason Olaine has taken songs from a number of Disney movies--some rarely recorded by jazz musicians--and made fresh new versions, utilizing some of today's most well-known jazz artists. The performers range from 90 year-old piano legend Dave Brubeck to 17 year-old Canadian vocalist Nikki Yanofsky; ...
Falkner Evans: The Point Of The Moon
by Mark Corroto
It is natural to equate a bit of hubris with jazz, but pianist Falkner Evans checks his ego at the door on The Point Of The Moon.Like his previous trio session, Arc (CAP, 2007), he returns with bassist Belden Bullock and drummer Matt Wilson, but supplements things with the horn frontline of tenor saxophonist ...
Jen Shyu and Theo Bleckmann: Breaking the Song Barrier
by Daniel Lehner
Before Robert Moog came out with the first synthesizer, before Adolphe Sax invented his famous reed instrument, before the trumpets sounded at Jericho, even before the world's ancient tribes tightened their animal skins to make drums, humanity's first instrument was the voice. Not that this is of particular consequence to Theo Bleckmann. “To me, that argument ...
Thomas Marriott: Constraints & Liberations
by Greg Simmons
Listening to Thomas Marriott's Constraints & Liberations, two things are abundantly clear: Marriott spent some serious time studying Miles Davis' second great quintet; and, his own voice on trumpet is developed well enough to make it sound like a strong, easily recognizable influence, but not plagiarism. Naturally, favorable comparison to the one of the greatest standing ...
