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North Mississippi Allstars in Denver
by Geoff Anderson
North Mississippi Allstars Bluebird Theater Denver, Colorado January 31, 2009 It's just as well that the Bluebird Theater doesn't have any seats. When the North Mississippi Allstars play, no one would be sitting anyway. Their shows are basically a non-stop two-hour boogie fest. They play “country blues" that has ...
Jean-Michel Pilc Trio at the Douglas Beach House in Half Moon Bay
by Bill Leikam
Jean-Michel Pilc TrioDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, CaliforniaJanuary 25, 2009 Jean-Michel Pilc's fingers popped over the keyboard with an opening ferocity that awoke the Sunday audience, as though he were defying the listener not to be impressed by his piano style. He tends to put his whole body into playing, drawing ...
Enrico Rava "New York Days" Quintet
by AAJ Italy Staff
Teatro Politeama - Poggibonsi - 05.02.2009 Se ne sentiva parlare come di uno dei migliori gruppi messi assieme dal leader negli ultimi anni, sulla base delle indiscrezioni che riguardavano New York Days, il disco adesso appena uscito. E le voci si erano accentuate dopo le primissime uscite dell'ensemble dal vivo. E questo concerto ha confermato che ...
Randy Brecker Quintet Honors Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" at the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Randy BreckerPerelman TheaterThe Kimmel Center for the Performing ArtsPhiladelphia, PAFebruary 7, 2009 Around the time that Miles Davis was recording the iconic album Kind of Blue in 1959, a kid from Philadelphia named Randy Brecker was learning to play trumpet, and not long after that, he entered the firmament ...
Jon Hassell 2009 Tour
by Mark Corroto
Jon Hassell The Wexner Center for the Arts Columbus, OH February 5, 2009 Jon Hassell and his band Maarifa Street entered the stage of The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio a few minutes before their scheduled 8pm start. The house lights were still up, and the ...
Tony Bianco and Paul Dunmall at the Vortex in London
by John Sharpe
Tony Bianco/Paul Dunmall Duo Vortex Jazz Bar London, England January 25, 2009 It was billed as a trio, but in retrospect it was hard to see how a bassist could fit in with the powerhouse duo of U.S. expat drummer Tony Bianco and English reed explorer Paul Dunmall. As ...
"Leave Me Alone!" Jazz Opera at Oberlin
by Matt Marshall
Music by Dan Plonsey Libretto by Harvey Pekar Additional Music by Josh Smith Additional Words by Mantra Ben-ya'akova Plonsey and Joyce Brabner Music Directors: Daniel Michalak and Josh Smith Oberlin Conservatory of Music (Finney Chapel) Presented in cooperation with Real Time Opera ...
"Proverbs And Songs" by John Surman, Howard Moody and the Ultime Thule Choir at the 2009 Nordlysfestivalen, Tromso, Norway
by Mark Sabbatini
John Surman, Howard Moody, John Taylor, Ultime Thule Choir Nordlysfestivalen, Ishavskatedralen (Arctic Cathedral)Tromso, Norway January 23-31, 2009 It's been a couple of years since saxophonist John Surman performed his Proverbs And Songs suite. But judging from what he wrung from it after four days' rehearsal with an ...
Umbria Jazz Winter in Orvieto, Italy
by Thomas Conrad
Umbria Jazz Winter, 16th EditionOrvieto, ItalyDecember 30, 2008 - January 4, 2009 Umbria Jazz Winter has a very different vibe from the huge Umbria Jazz summer festival in Perugia. It is too cold for all-night conga parties in the piazzas. There is more intimacy and more concentration on the music. The winter sunlight ...
40th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Preview
by Tod Smith
Seven days, two weekends, forty years. No matter how you measure it, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Presented by Shell is a musical and cultural rite of spring for hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. From its humble beginnings at Congo Square, to this the 40th anniversary, Jazz Fest always provides enough musical ...
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