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Enjoy Jazz: Mannheim, Germany, October 2-November 18, 2011, Week 5-7
by Adriana Carcu
Week 1-2 | Week 3-4 | Week 5-7 Enjoy Jazz FestivalHeidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany October 2-November 18, 2011 Colin Vallon Trio The performance of the Swiss trio surprised from the onset, through their pronounced experimental character. Other than the steady narrative flow featured on their most recent album Rruga (ECM, 2011), the ...
Kurt Elling To Perform At Montgomery County Community College (Blue Bell, PA) on December 3
Blue Bell, PA: The Lively Arts Series at Montgomery County Community College continues its Culture Speaks a Global Language Series with celebrated jazz vocalists Kurt Elling. The concert will take place at Science Center Theatre , 340 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell, PA on Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 8PM. He will be performing selections from his ...
Monterey Jazz Festival: Monterey, CA, September 16-18, 2011
by Larry Taylor
54th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey Fairgrounds Monterey, CA September 16-18, 2011 The Monterey Jazz Festival--still going strong after 54 years. What's more, this year, Sept. 16-18, it was better than ever: the music was great; weather warm yet crisp and the atmosphere bucolic at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Northern ...
Ryan Cohan: Another Look
by Alex Marianyi
Unlike many of his past releases, Ryan Cohan's Another Look focuses heavily on group interaction and improvisation. Penning all but two of the tunes on the album, the pianist's arrangements allow his musicians maximum flexibility. That the CD's main quartet has been playing together since 2003, and was on the road for six straight weeks before ...
Ryan Cohan/Geof Bradfield: Chicago, IL, August 11, 2011
by Alex Marianyi
Ryan Cohan, Geof BradfieldMillennium Park Pritzker Pavilion Chicago, ILAugust 11, 2011 The heat wave broke in Chicago and, weather-wise, the night was shaping up to be one of the best all summer. African Journeys, featuring Ryan Cohan and Geof Bradfield, began as saxophonist Bradfield's group took the stage to perform his ...
Sonny Brings the Presents to His Own 80th Birthday
by Dan Morgenstern
Sonny Rollins threw himself an 80th birthday party at New York's restored Beacon Theater on September 10---he was born on the 7th---and it was he who brought the gifts. And what a cornucopia! This was one of those rare times when you know that you're in the best of all possible places in the world. In ...
Involved
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Spastic; Expressions; Sonny Like; Taboo To Love; Congo; Gentle Souls; Short Story; Affectious; Third Pew; Movin' On.
Jazz Icon Sonny Rollins Kicks Off Kimmel Center Presents 2009/10 Season, September 25
“...Rollins is still the reigning god of the tenor saxophone, one of jazz's most innovative and influential pioneers... a volcano of fierce inventiveness and raw, urgent power." Washington Post “Nobody rivals his fluid mastery..." Boston Globe Jazz icon Sonny Rollins kicks off Kimmel Center Presents 2009/10 season on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 8pm in Verizon ...
Kobie Watkins: Involved
by Mark F. Turner
More recently recognized as a member of guitarist Bobby Broom's illustrious trio, Kobie Watkins has proven his savvy as a fearless drummer and now a leader on his debut Involved. Watkins is no neophyte. A native of Chicago who is also an educator, he was once dubbed in a newspaper article as “Teacher has Alter Ego ...
In Walked Monk: Bobby Broom on His New Album and Personal Jazz Heroes
Bobby Broom was just a teenager when he became enamored with jazz, but even then he figured hed started too late. As the Chicago-based guitarist explains in the interview below, he realized even in 1976 that human mortality being what it is it would be years before he acquired the chops needed to play with his ...
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