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Fly in La Jolla

by Dan McClenaghan
April 28, 2009

FlyAthenaeum Jazz at the Neurosciences InstituteLa Jolla, CaliforniaApril 18, 2009It appeared an inauspicious venue for a jazz concert--a mile from Interstate Five in La Jolla, California, not in the village's quaint and stylish old sea-side downtown, but rather snugged in a tract of blocky and nondescript industrial type buildings housing a ...

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Four Chicagoans Stir Up Musical Turbulence in NYC: Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Ken Vandermark and Jack DeJohnette

by Martin Longley
April 27, 2009

Anthony Braxton & The Walter Thompson Orchestra Irondale CenterApril 16, 2009 The Irondale Center is a new arts space in the general locale of BAM (Brooklyn Academy Of Music) and represents the first stage in the Cultural District plan dreamed up by its president Harvey Lichtenstein. Indeed, at present, the quaint ...

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Cape May Jazz Festival Continues to Rebuild

by Ken Franckling
April 26, 2009

The 31st Cape May Jazz FestivalCape May, New JerseyApril 16-18, 2009 As it works to regroup from its own financial problems of the past several years, due in some measure to over expansion, the Cape May Jazz Festival team didn't need the impact of a full-blown recession. L to R: ...

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Burton Greene and Perry Robinson at the Zeitgeist Gallery, Boston, MA

by Lyn Horton
April 25, 2009

Burton Greene and Perry Robinson Outpost 128 / Zeitgeist Gallery Boston, Massachusetts April 11, 2009 Pianist Burton Greene and clarinetist Perry Robinson have known each other for two generations' worth of years. They first played together at Greene's loft in New York in 1965 in a trio, which included Joel ...

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Ether Festival 09 Launches with Eno in London

by John Eyles
April 24, 2009

Brian Eno and Jon Hassell Ether Festival, Queen Elizabeth HallLondon, England April 9, 2009 The Southbank Centre's annual Ether festival of innovation in sound and art got under way with two events that shone the spotlight on Brian Eno, although Eno himself did not play a note of music at ...

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Coco Montoya and Debbie Davies at Toad's, Denver CO

by Geoff Anderson
April 23, 2009

Coco Montoya, Debbie Davies The Toad Tavern Denver, Colorado April 1, 2009 The blues is something you either get, or you don't. To those that don't get it, it's just the same old chord progression running round and round like a NASCAR race. Some complain that the blues is ...

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Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - World Premiere

by Eric Benson
April 22, 2009

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present TenseWorld PremiereThe Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln CenterNew York, NYApril 15, 2009 The Jazz Wars are over. Now what? A new documentary asks. Since the early 1980s, jazz has been engaged in its own nonviolent, low-intensity civil war. Decentralized and ...

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Omar Sosa: The Magic Piano Man and his Afreecanos Quartet

by Bill Leikam
April 21, 2009

Omar Sosa and his Afreecanos Quartet Douglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, San Francisco March 29, 2009 Before doing live reviews, I never go to the web and check up on the band or the people that I will see perform, preferring not to have any preconceived expectations of the musicians ...

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Oskar Boldre - Simone Mauri "Da tutti i pori"

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 20, 2009

Gheroartè - Corsico - 03.04.2009 Un immaginario giro del mondo in musica, tra raga indiani e parodie della canzone napoletana, echi africani e ironiche divagazioni asiatiche. Orizzonti mobili, spiazzanti, fatti di generi che si mescolano e separano, combinano e scombinano. Il jazz è solo un elemento tra i tanti, neppure il più evidente, né caratterizzante né ...

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Trio of One: Fly at the Jazz Standard

by Eric Benson
April 20, 2009

FlyJazz StandardNew York, NYApril 10, 2009 Instruments are versatile husks, possessing limited range and a particular timbre, but no set personality of their own. The piano can channel the thoughts of musicians as different from one another as Cecil Taylor and Bill Evans; the saxophone can express the passions of Stan ...