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Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 2 - May 16, 2008
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5Tim Brady / Fred Frith Cosa Brava / John Zorn MoonchildFestival International Musique Actuelle VictoriavilleVictoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 16, 2008Outside, as it is, of the conventional summer festival season, one might think the highly ...
Bobby Porcelli Quintet at The Turning Point Cafe, NY
by David A. Orthmann
Bobby Porcelli Quintet The Turning Point Café Piermont, New York April 14, 2008 Every jazz fan knows the pitfalls of attending a casual club gig. The leader confers with the band and calls a string of too familiar tunes. A musician looks--and plays--as if he or she would prefer ...
Ernie Krivda, JD Allen, Marcus Roberts at Tri-C JazzFest 2008, Cleveland
by Matt Marshall
Ernie Krivda Trio, JD Allen Trio, Marcus Roberts Trio Tri-C JazzFest 2008 Cleveland, Ohio April 20, 27, 2008 Is it just me, or is this jazz trio thing for real? Over the last decade or so, the trio has risen from the jazz ashes (mostly crashed and burnt ...
Brad Mehldau Trio at Wolf Trap
by Dean Christesen
Brad Mehldau TrioWolf Trap, The BarnsVienna, VirginiaApril 30, 2008 A well-developed solo is a beautiful construction that takes time. Using time to their advantage, the Brad Mehldau Trio played an intoxicating set at the Barns at Wolftrap. The trio's latest album, Live (Nonesuch, 2008), came to life as the sense of blossoming solos ...
Justo Almario Quartet: L. A. County Museum of Art Jazz Series, May 2, 2008
by Kim Vinson
Justo Almario Quartet Friday Night Jazz Series, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, California May 2, 2008 The weather was just right as a crowd of jazz enthusiasts gathered to experience the glorious and tireless musicianship of woodwind virtuoso Justo Almario and his ensemble May 2 at ...
Irene Atman at the Slide Bar, Sydney, Australia
by Barry O'Sullivan
Irene AtmanSlide BarSydney, AustraliaApril 15, 2008Slide Bar, Oxford Street is a difficult venue for a jazz vocalist. Blessed with a hi- tech sound system but hindered by a somewhat small and an almost too close stage to audience set up , it is a venue that for the inexperienced could prove ...
Z-U, The Drum Arts Centre, Birmingham, U.K., April 13
by Ian Mann
Z-UThe Drum Arts CentreBirmingham, U.K.April 13, 2008 Where were you? That's the question to the people of Birmingham following an evening of excellent music witnessed by a small but enthusiastic audience of approximately thirty people. The concert was part of “Live Box," a series of twelve wide-ranging gigs centred ...
Norwegian Jazz 101: JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2008
by John Kelman
2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 Since the early 1970s, the Norwegian music scene has received increasing international exposure, first through the German ECM label, but over time with an increasing number of Norwegian labels including Odin, NorCD, Curling Legs, Rune Grammofon and Jazzland. For a country of less than five million ...
Harold Mabern at Smoke, NYC
by AAJ Staff
Harold MabernSmokeNew York CityDecember 22, 2007 Harold Mabern performed with his piano trio three nights at Smoke, on New York's Upper West Side, the weekend before Christmas, 2007. The one-time sideman for luminaries such as Wes Montgomery, Lee Morgan and John Coltrane was accompanied by a suited white bassist and a ...
Tim Berne "Science Friction"
by AAJ Italy Staff
Area Sismica - Forlì - 26.04.2008 Una chiusura coi fiocchi per la stagione 2007/2008 dell'Area Sismica. Dopo il passaggio nell'ottobre 2005 col suo progetto Hard Cell, Tim Berne è tornato questa volta coi Science Friction (tre dei cui quattro membri in realtà sono gli stessi del succitato progetto). Se Hard Cell era una creatura puramente acustica ...
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