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Article: Album Review

Jason Marsalis: Music Update

Read "Music Update" reviewed by J Hunter

by J Hunter
October 8, 2009

It's not like Jason Marsalis has been invisible since he released Music in Motion (Basin Street, 2002); his name's just been on the back of CD booklets instead of the front. With Music Update, Marsalis is back at the top of the bill, except he's brought a different set of sticks with him, or more specifically, ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Deck the Halls with Big Band Carols

by Jack Bowers
October 3, 2009

With the holiday season on track and hastening toward us like a runaway locomotive, it's time once again to hunker down and prepare for the annual onslaught of “Rudolph," “Frosty the Snowman," “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," “Sleigh Ride," “Silver Bells," chestnuts roasting on an open fire and everyone's perennial favorite, “White Christmas." Not to ...

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News: TV / Film

Free Movie Nights with "Lady Day," "The Duke," and Charlie "Bird" Parker!

September 30, 2009

Make Tuesday the new Friday and join the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center for the first “Scenes Through the Cinema Lens" on October 20 at 7:30! An original retrospective focusing on the performing arts in film, this years series will highlight several of the great performers from the Lost Jazz Shrines and rarely seen footage of ...

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News: Event

Woodlawn Cemetery Walking Tour of Jazz Greats

September 27, 2009

This Sunday, September 27, join the Friends of Woodlawn for a walking tour of the final resting places of the Jazz Greats of Woodlawn Cemetery. Among the notable musicians buried at the historic cemetery are: Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Coleman Hawkins, Bricktop, William Sonny Greer, W.C. Handy, Charles “Cootie" Williams, King Oliver, ...

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News: Event

Jazz Greats of Woodlawn Cemetery Walking Tour

September 23, 2009

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Article: Album Review

Paul Motian: On Broadway Vol. 5

Read "On Broadway Vol. 5" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
September 23, 2009

An unorthodox timekeeper and masterful drummer, Paul Motian's momentum has not waned since working with Bill Evans in the 1950s, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and Keith Jarrett's American Quartet in the 1960s, and, more recently, younger artists including Jacob Sacks, Eivind Opsvik and Mat Maneri in Two Miles a Day (Loyal Label, 2007). Among Motian's ...

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Article: Album Review

Tom Beckham: Rebound

Read "Rebound" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins
August 26, 2009

In the simplest terms, to rebound is to bounce back. Many people associate it with a statistic in basketball, or the recovery from heartbreak. Musically, it describes what happens when a mallet strikes a vibraphone, or the bouncing off of ideas during improvisation. Tom Beckham does both with Rebound. Beckham is a Maryland native ...

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Article: Interview

Aaron Akins: Thinking Love

by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
August 20, 2009

Aaron Akins' music is something out of the ordinary. After all, a certain reminiscence of the voice of Nat King" Cole wrapped up in the arms of a sophisticated Urban beat is not something heard every day. Jazz is an alive music. Its rawness leaves an open door for pure artistry to grow and ...

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Article: Album Review

Klang: Tea Music

Read "Tea Music" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
August 17, 2009

Formed in 2006 for a now defunct improvised music series, Klang has since become one of Chicago-based clarinetist James Falzone's primary working groups. An update of the swing era clarinet and vibes combination popularized by Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton, the quartet (which features vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, bassist Jason Roebke and drummer Tim Daisy) taps into ...

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Article: Book Excerpts

Jazz Orchestras

by Nick Catalano
August 7, 2009

This excerpt appears in New York Nights: Performing, Producing and Writing in Gotham (IUniverse, 2008). In addition to the productions of the dance band shows, being a Performing Arts producer meant that I had the opportunity to present artists from every genre imaginable. I steadfastly tried to adhere to some sense of objectivity listening ...