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Sedona Jazz on the Rocks Festival 2010
by Patricia Myers
Sedona Jazz on the Rocks FestivalPoco Diablo ResortSedona, AZ October 2, 2010 After a year's hiatus due to financial problems, the 29th Sedona Jazz on the Rocks Festival promised a ReJAZZination," aimed at boosting attendance by having more blues and R&B. Unfortunately, the festival's original jazz focus suffered because the sounds ...
Nnenna Freelon Live At The Saville Theater, San Diego
by Robert Bush
Nnenna Freelon Saville Theater, San Diego City College San Diego, CA November 9, 2010 Vocalist Nnenna Freelon has enjoyed her share of commercial success over the years (she's been nominated for six Grammy Awards), but not enough to damage her artistic integrity. She's got one hell of a voice, which ...
The 2010 Voodoo Experience: Superstars & The Unsung Heroes
by Mike Perciaccante
The 2010 Voodoo Experience: Superstars & The Unsung HeroesCity ParkNew Orleans, LAOctober 29--31, 2010During Halloween Weekend 2010 (October 29-31), New Orleans City Park played host to the 12th Annual Voodoo Experience. As always the festival featured food, fun, retail therapy, corporate sponsors/giveaways and top-shelf performances by musical legends, multi-platinum chart-topping superstar ...
The Grizzler Big Band: Dave's Not Here
by Gordon Marshall
Dave Gross, Andrew Eisenberg, Steve Norton, et al.November 12, 2010Private Loft, Fort Point ChannelBoston, MassA giant, three-pound onion ring keeps growing. Now, it's four pounds!" says the announcer. It seemed like an overly heavy onion blossom," musician Angela Sawyer said. It was in a cartoon on Adult Swim in 2002. It ...
Earshot Jazz Festival 2010, Part 2
by Nathan Bluford
Earshot FestivalSeattle, WAOctober 31-November 7, 2010 Part 1 | Part 2 Mavis StaplesTown Hall/Earshot Jazz FestivalSeattle, WASunday, October 31, 2010 Did anyone bring a louder, more powerful voice to this year's festival than Mavis Staples? As ...
Jamie Saft Special Quintet at Cornelia St. Café
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Jamie SaftCornelia St. CaféNew York, NYNovember 12, 2010Perhaps better known for his electric keyboard work in genre-flouting projects, Jamie Saft also possesses a deep jazz sensibility and prodigious piano technique. It was these talents he sought to exercise with his Special Quintet" for a 2-night, 4-set stand at Cornelia Street Café. ...
Kurt Rosenwinkel Monvínic Experience in Barcelona
by Roan Clay
Kurt RosenwinkelMonvínic42nd Barcelona Voll-Damm International Jazz FestivalNovember 15, 2010The Berlin based guitarist and composer Kurt Rosenwinkel spent two days performing in Barcelona this week in two markedly different contexts. His loyal fans turned out en mass at the famed Luz de Gas, an intimate club in the Eixample neighborhood, to hear ...
John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension: Philadelpha, PA November 12, 2010
by Linda Braceland
John McLaughlin & the 4th DimensionThe Keswick TheatreGlenside, PA 19038November 12, 2010 Guitarist John McLaughlin kicked off the US portion of his North American Tour Friday night in the Philadelphia area, at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, PA. Whether you are a fan of fusion, blues, rock or strictly jazz, there ...
Andando per Jazz Club a Bologna: Fabrizio Puglisi - William Parker / Dave Burrell / Tinissima Quartet
by AAJ Italy Staff
La città del jazz": così Nardo Giardina ha definito Bologna nel suo libro omonimo, edito da Grafis nel 1992, poi aggiornato e riedito da Clueb nel 2002. L'autore si riferiva soprattutto all'atmosfera che si respirava nel capoluogo felsineo negli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta, ma anche dopo il 1975, anno dell'ultima edizione del glorioso Festival del Jazz, ...
Camerata Aberta at Americas Society, Nov. 12, 2010
by Ernest Barteldes
Camerata AbertaAmericas SocietyNew York, NYNovember 12, 2010Modern contemporary music of Brazil was on the menu for the New York debut of Camerata Aberta's at Manhattan's Americas Society. In the words of music director and composer Sergio Kafejian, the ensemble dedicates itself to the research of the intensity, fluidity and exuberance of ...

