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Greg Abate Quartet at The Puffin Cultural Forum

by David A. Orthmann
February 22, 2007

Greg Abate Quartet The Puffin Cultural Forum Teaneck, NJ January 27, 2007 “Bird never played one note of bullshit, Barry Harris once said about Charlie Parker. Harris' salty aphorism came to mind at the conclusion of Greg Abate's incendiary performance at the Puffin Cultural Forum. Although he's a stylistic descendent ...

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Hamid Drake at the Sons d'hiver Festival, Paris

by John Sharpe
February 20, 2007

Hamid Drake & Bindu Sons d'hiver Jazz Festival Theatre Romain Rolland, Villejuif, Paris February 2, 2007 Good things come to those who wait, and Hamid Drake has waited longer than most. After over 30 years in creative music, Bindu is not the first band to be led by Drake, ...

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Bass Desires

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 19, 2007

Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni - Milano - 05.02.2007 Era il 1986 quando usciva Bass Desires (ECM), primo album dell'omonimo supergruppo, teoricamente diretto da Marc Johnson ma in realtà assolutamente paritetico. All'epoca ero un jazzofilo quasi alle prime armi, e questa originalissima fusion suonò alle mie orecchie come una folgorazione. C'era un contrabbasso acustico fortemente jazz ...

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Maria Schneider Orchestra Live in Troy, N.Y.

by R.J. DeLuke
February 19, 2007

Maria Schneider is both painter and aural poet, able to provide the listener with a variety of textures, tempos, feelings and facets in her music. Her compositions, moreover, are presented by a superb collection of musicians, as evidenced during her Feb. 9 concert at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, N.Y. Her band ...

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Lou Donaldson Quartet at Birdland

by Budd Kopman
February 18, 2007

Lou Donaldson QuartetBirdlandNew York, NY Saturday, February 3, 2007 Lou Donaldson, now eighty years old, and his group performed a wonderful straight-ahead set ("no fusion, no confusion ) before an adoring crowd. Birdland, being in the center of the theater district, can attract a lot of tourists, especially on the ...

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Marty Ehrlich Trio in Tel Aviv

by Eyal Hareuveni
February 17, 2007

Marty Ehrlich Trio New Opera House Tel Aviv, Israel Friday, January, 19, 2007 The first performance in Israel of New York-based composer and reed player Marty Ehrlich offered a concise overview of the career of the gifted player. Ehrlich presented his new trio--Shanir Ezra Blumenkrantz on bass and oud ...

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Don Byron: Doing The Boomerang at Philadelphia's Painted Bride

by Edward Zucker
February 16, 2007

Don Byron Painted Bride Art Center Philadelphia, PA February 3, 2007 Don Byron's release Do The Boomerang: The Music Of Junior Walker became a darling of the critics and made the best-of lists for 2006. The disc, a danceable, funk and R&B-filled party record, was Byron's homage to one ...

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Mozart/Ligeti/Haydn – Mahler Chamber Orchestra

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 15, 2007

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto n. 3 in mi bemolle maggiore per corno e orchestra K 447 György Ligeti - Hamburgisches Konzert Franz Joseph Haydn - Sinfonia in do maggiore Hob. I:90 Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli - Torino - 7.02.2007 Tra le occasioni concertistiche proposte dalla Stagione di Lingotto Musica spicca l’esibizione della Mahler Chamber Orchestra, compagine ...

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Amina Figarova - Darren Barrett

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 14, 2007

Amina Figarova (19 gennaio) e Darren Barrett (26 gennaio) Palermo Tre sono le caratteristiche di fondo della programmazione concertistica del Brass Group Palermo, giunta quest’anno alla trentatreesima edizione: produzioni originali in prima europea; il livello costantemente elevato dei concerti; l’inutile parata di stelle statunitense. Anche quest’anno l’obiettivo della direzione artistica è rimasto quello dei primi concerti, ...

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Concerto di Diane Schuur

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 13, 2007

Metropolitan - Palermo - 08.02.2007 Un cartellone “crossover”, pensato per un pubblico giovane, con ampi sconfinamenti di genere tra blues, soul e fusion. È questo il filo conduttore della rassegna “Jazz al Metropolitan”, giunta quest’anno alla quinta edizione. Ed ancora la magia del tango, nella performance (31 gennaio) dell’Hyperion Tango Quintet; un felice connubio tra ballo ...