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Jef Lee Johnson and Rob Reddy Trio at Jalopy Theater in Brooklyn May
25On Friday, May 25th at 9:00 p.m., the Reddy Music Concert Series will present The Jef Lee Johnson Group and the Rob Reddy Trio at Brooklyn's Jalopy Theater. This will be the second event presented by this new monthly series, which is curated by saxophonist/ composer Rob Reddy as an extension of his label, Reddy Music. ...
Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 4 - May 20, 2007
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3| Day 4 | Day 5 Where else but at the Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoraville (FIMAV) could you see a cutting edge artist in more than one context, sometimes on the same day? At the 2005 edition of FIMAV, reedman/composer Anthony Braxton could be found improvising ...
Harris Eisenstadt: Simultaneous Juxtapositions
by John Sharpe
Upcoming Canadian drummer and composer Harris Eisenstadt has rung the changes with each successive release so far. His sixth outing as leader, All Seeing Eye + Octets (Poobah, 2007), is not a departure in that sense only. Intriguingly, it combines a re-imagining of the Wayne Shorter Blue Note suite of the same name, with two of ...
Bill Frisell Trio at New Haven's Firehouse 12 on June 18th
On Monday, June 18th at 8:30 p.m., Firehouse 12's intimate 75-seat performance space will host a special concert event featuring renowned guitarist Bill Frisell and his longstanding trio featuring bassist (and New Haven native) Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny Wolleson. This group, which is touring the country throughout June, appears on the Grammy-winning Unspeakable (Nonesuch, 2004) ...
Firehouse 12 to Present the Adam Birnbaum Trio June 8th
New Haven's Firehouse 12 will conclude its 2007 Spring Jazz Series on Friday, June 8th with a two-set performance by the Adam Birnbaum Trio. The group, led by award-winning pianist Adam Birnbaum, features bassist Ben Wolfe (Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Harry Connick, Jr.) and drummer Rodney Green (Diana Krall, Greg Osby). Birnbaum's trio has opened for ...
Mike Reed: Last Year's Ghost
by Nic Jones
482 Music was responsible for one of 2006's most iconoclastic releases, in the form of Intents & Purposes by Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack. This debut by drummer/composer Mike Reed and his group is not on the same level in terms of the way in which it fundamentally breaks with a lot of what has already gone down ...
May 2005
by AAJ Staff
Eddie Gale at Jimmy's On Apr. 15th at Jimmy's Sunday Freestyle Creative Music Series, trumpeter Eddie Gale made one of his now more frequent East Coast trips to play with veteran trombonist Dick Griffin. And with Ken Filiano (bass) and Dee Pop's (series curator/drummer) rhythmic connection, the improvisational intensity through four spontaneous creations was set in ...
Guitars: Michael Musillami, Threedom & Tom Guarna
by Jim Santella
Michael Musillami's Dialect Fragile Forms Playscape Recordings 2007 Threedom Clairvoyant Avenue Bella Firenze Musica 2007 Tom Guarna Out from the Underground SteepleChase 2007
New Haven's Firehouse 12 to Present Andy Milne and Dapp Theory June 2nd
On Saturday, June 2nd, Brooklyn-based keyboardist/composer Andy Milne and his longstanding group Dapp Theory (formerly Cosmic Dapp Theory) will perform at New Haven's Firehouse 12 as part of its five-stop June tour of the Northeast. The group, which strives to link the essence of jazz with hip hop and other forms of musical expression, features vocalist/percussive ...
Taylor Ho Bynum: Spontaneous Yet Focused
by John Sharpe
Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum is at the forefront of a younger generation of creative musicians in New York. He combines thrilling improvisation with stealthy composition, unconfined by genre. Best known for his association with Anthony Braxton, Bynum has played a leading role in the realization of the saxophonist's recent oeuvre. There has been a deserved upsurge ...
