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Bobby Zankel, Warriors of the Wonderful Sound, and Rudresh Mahanthappa at Montgomery County Community College

by Victor L. Schermer
May 20, 2010

Bobby Zankel and the Warriors of the Wonderful Sound with Special Guest Rudresh MahanthappaScience Center Theater, Montgomery County Community CollegeBlue Bell, PennsylvaniaMay 8, 2010 This concert offered a stimulating blast of music from the outer stratosphere of modern jazz, performed by cutting-edge musicians who are among a handful who can truly ...

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Lua Hadar with TWIST at the Cornelia Street Café, NYC

by Marc Nieson
May 20, 2010

Lua Hadar with TWISTJazz with a Twist of Français Cornelia Street Café New York, New York April 24, 2010 Say chanteuse and what comes to mind? A smoky Parisian cellar? A rain-slicked side street in Montmartre? Edith Piaf poised before a thick microphone, spilling her ever-rallying soul for romance and La ...

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Pat Metheny, Orchestrion Tour in Denver

by Geoff Anderson
May 19, 2010

Pat Metheny Paramount Theater Denver, CO May 5, 2010 “Because it's there." That's the classic answer to the question of why climb the big mountain. That's pretty close to the explanation for Pat Metheny's current Orchestrion tour. He's taken the concept of the one-man-band to heights never dreamed of by ...

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Henry Threadgill & Zooid

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 17, 2010

Angelica Teatro San Leonardo - Bologna - 6.5.2010 Era l'ottobre del 2008 quando Henry Threadgill capitò in Italia con gli Zooid ridisegnati secondo l'attuale line-up, riduzione di quella all'opera nei dischi gemelli Everybodys Mouth's a Book e Up Popped the Two Lips del 2001. Chi scrive ebbe la fortuna di assistere a due esibizioni del quintetto ...

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Brad Mehldau & Joshua Redman Live at The Flynn Center

by Doug Collette
May 16, 2010

Brad Mehldau & Joshua Redman Flynn Center for The Performing Arts Burlington, VT April 28, 2010 Brad Mehldau is such a commanding presence as a musician, he overshadowed saxophonist Joshua Redman virtually throughout the duo's ninety-minute performance on Vermont's Flynn Performing Arts Center MainStage on April 28th. The most intense ...

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B.B. King Live At The Hollywood Bowl, September 5, 2007

by AAJ Staff
May 15, 2010

One of the greatest blues figures is, of course, B.B. King. King fused the Texas blues playing of T-Bone Walker with a broader, almost literary sensibility; his thicker solo lines provide the opportunity to tell a story, to impart depth, and to dominate a horn section or at least supplement it on equal terms. ...

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Jim Rotondi at The Turning Point Cafe

by David A. Orthmann
May 14, 2010

Jim Rotondi The Turning Point Café Piermont, NY April 11, 2010When the words “Bye, Bye" sounded from outside The Turning Point Cafe in the middle of Jim Rotondi's “Angel Eyes" cadenza, he didn't hesitate to imitate the singsong tone of the woman's voice. A journeyman whose credits include the Ray Charles ...

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Finland's April Jazz Festival 2010

by Anthony Shaw
May 13, 2010

April Jazz Festival Espoo/Tapiola, Finland April 28-May 2, 2010 The wind in these northern climes can hit heavy, even during the sunny days of late April. This year an east wind drove down from the Arctic Ocean and any opportunity to get into the sun needed to be taken--but it's a sign ...

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Bob Brookmeyer dirige la Parco della Musica Jazz Orchestra

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 13, 2010

Parco della Musica - Roma- 29.04.2010 La Parco della Musica Jazz Orchestra è da tempo un'importante realtà, fra le più valide e durevoli nel panorama delle big band italiane. Nata dall'incontro fra lo Iodice-Corvini Roma Jazz Ensemble e Maurizio Giammarco ha trovato, fino allo scorso anno, nel Parco della Musica il luogo ideale per esprimersi in ...

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B3 Blowout Featuring Joey DeFrancesco and Three More at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia

by Victor L. Schermer
May 11, 2010

Organists (in order of appearance): Trudy Pitts, Joey DeFrancesco; John Medeski; Dr. Lonnie Smith Jazz FridaysKimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Verizon HallApril 30, 2010 This was a blowout of a concert, culminating with four of the world's greatest contemporary jazz organists battling it out on four Hammond B3s (with legendary ...