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Carlos Bica & Azul in Jerusalem
by Eyal Hareuveni
Carlos Bica & Azul Yellow Submarine Jerusalem, Israel March 24, 2009Some of the best performances that I have seen in recent years were the ones with almost no hype surrounding them. Such was the case with the free concert by Berlin-based Portuguese bassist Carlos Bica and the Azul Trio--completed ...
Kind of Blue Turns 50: Bobby Watson Quartet at the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Bobby Watson QuartetJazz Up Close: Kind of Blue Turns 50Honoring Cannonball Adderly and John Coltrane, SaxophonesKimmel Center Perelman TheaterPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaMarch 28, 2009The great Bobby Watson, still in “mid-life" at age 53, is a seasoned “heavy" on the alto sax whose playing echoes saxophone greats from Phil Woods ...
The Primal Waters of Pure Consciousness: Cecil Taylor at Merkin Hall
by Eric Benson
Cecil TaylorMerkin Concert Hall New York, NY March 28, 2009 Cecil Taylor shuffled in from the wings with knitted tube socks pulled up over his sweatpants, ignored the Steinway grand that dominated centerstage, and began to read. A shapeless nurturer, distilled...Australopithecus, pebble culture...A convergence ...
Five Peace Band
by Geoff Anderson
Five Peace Band Paramount Theatre Denver, CO March 25, 2009 The reunion of Chick Corea and John McLaughlin—together for the first substantial time since their days with Miles Davis recording In a Silent Way(Columbia, 1969) and Bitches Brew—may be the most obvious feature of their new collaboration, Five Peace Band; ...
Perspectives 2009
by A. Henkin
Perspectives 2009 Vasteras, Sweden March 5th-7th, 2009 For those who have not attended, or perhaps not even heard of, the Perspectives International Festival for Creative Music, held in Våsteras, 90 minutes northwest of Stockholm, there are two comparable equivalents. In some ways, Perspectives is similar to the Vision Festival--the names ...
Daniele D'Agaro - Tristan Honsinger
by AAJ Italy Staff
Avant-Jazz al PiM--Milano, 25.03.2009 25 marzo 1929: nasce a New York Cecil Percival Taylor. Per festeggiare il suo ottantesimo compleanno il PiM, ormai divenuto la casa milanese del jazz d'avanguardia, ha proposto un duo di formidabili improvvisatori: il clarinettista--sassofonista friulano Daniele D'Agaro, vincitore degli ultimi due Top Jazz nella categoria relativa al suo strumento, ed il ...
Larry Coryell with Joey DeFrancesco at the Iridium
by David Miller
Larry Coryell Organ TrioWith Joey DeFrancesco and Byron LandhamThe IridiumNew York, New YorkMarch 26, 2009The atmosphere was surprisingly quiet in advance of the early set at the reliably raucous Iridium on a rainy Thursday night. The excitement was palpable. I didn't fully understand--we were just going to hear a ...
The Inside Out Band: Enrico Rava Quintet at Birdland
by Eric Benson
Enrico Rava QuintetBirdlandNew York, NYMarch 25, 2009 Before last Wednesday night, I'd never found the work of Italian pianist Stefano Bollani particularly compelling. Sure, he had that pristine touch, Evans-eque in its haunting elegance, but on albums such as his own Solo Piano and Enrico Rava's Tati, his playing sounded ...
Higher Standards: Ethan Iverson Trio at Smalls
by Eric Benson
Ethan Iverson Trio, with Ben Street and Albert “Tootie" HeathSmalls New York, NY March 23, 2009 In the final scene of the film Big Night, the manager of an Italian restaurant played by Stanley Tucci makes a plain three-egg omelette--no cheese, no onions or peppers, just a little olive ...
Sun Trio in Snowy Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
Sun Trio Record Release Party Piano Bar, Helsinki, Finland January 20, 2009 I have to confess I was raised on an adolescent diet of power trio rock in late 1960s UK--Cream, the Groundhogs, Taste, not to mention Jimi. Oh the intensity! Could it be that we are programmed to respond ...
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