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Steve Swell's Slammin' The Infinite Quartet at Cafe Wilhelmina in Eindhoven
by John Sharpe
Steve Swell's Slammin' The Infinite Quartet Café Wilhelmina Eindhoven, Netherlands April 18, 2005 Without fanfare, Steve Swell has become one of the leading proponents of the trombone in free jazz circles and a fixture of the NY Lower East Side scene, featuring in bands such as William Parker's Little Huey ...
Even a Pebble: The Brad Mehldau Trio
by AAJ Staff
The Brad Mehldau Trio appeared at the Ann Arbor Michigan Theater, giving credence to the impression that less is often more. Mehldau and his colleagues showed a deftness of line combined with a powerful expressiveness that transcended each individual voice, making for a quietly eloquent set. Formally trained, one can hear the voices of Gershwin ...
Blossom Dearie and Dave Frishberg at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center
by Marcia Hillman
This Highlights in Jazz concert on April 14, 2005 at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City was a salute to two unique performers whose careers have stretched many years; performing and recording separately and together. They have both accumulated a great many fans, illustrated by the just-about sold out, 900 plus seat concert ...
Brasil! The Music of Hermeto Pascoal and Friends
by Jason West
Jovino Santos Neto, Paul Taub & the Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto with special guests Virginia Dziewonski and Paris Hurley Cornish College of the Arts March 5, 2005 Cornish College of the Arts music faculty member Jovino Santos Neto--composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist--is first and foremost a student of his country's rich ...
Charlie Haden & Quartet West at the Portland Jazz Festival
by Jason West
Charlie Haden & Quartet West Portland Jazz Festival February 18, 2005 Last February, Wayne Shorter and his quartet played the Portland Marriott ballroom, christening the city's inaugural jazz festival with a performance that over the next 12 months remained a source of inspiration for musical circles on both sides of the Willamette ...
Final Notes: Dr. Billy Taylor Retires from Concert Performance
by Franz A. Matzner
Educator, ambassador, author, composer, and master pianist, Dr. Billy Taylor ended his concert career last Thursday night, concluding over sixty years as one of jazz's greatest emissaries with a rousing performance at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater by his trio and guest John Faddis. Billy Taylor's career has spanned the entirety of modern ...
Billy Taylor: A Comma - Not a Period
by Erik R. Quick
The second and last set of pianist Billy Taylor's final public performances on March 31, 2005, was an emotional experience for many reasons. Although Taylor was born in North Carolina, Washington, DC was his home from the age of five, until he graduated Virginia State University. At the age of thirteen, Taylor played his first professional ...
The Allman Brothers Band Live at The Beacon Theatre
by Doug Collette
The Allman Brothers Band The Beacon Theatre New York City March 2005 It's a special pleasure to see The Allman Brothers Band more than one night for a number of reasons. If you're a fan, you can't get enough of the Brothers pure and simple. If you're new to the ...
The Allman Brothers Band at the Beacon Theatre
by David Miller
The Allman Brothers Band The Beacon Theatre New York City March 2005 The Allman Brothers Band once again set up camp at New York's Beacon Theatre for nine shows in the past two weeks in what has become an annual rite of passage. The Beacon has become a home away ...
A Far-Out Concert Among the Stars
by Jim Santella
Various Artists In Geosynchronous Orbit April 1, 2005 The International Space Station provided a suitable setting for the world's first jazz concert in space this morning. Weightlessness wasn't a problem for the artists, as they floated their melodies around the station's auditorium chamber with spontaneous kicks and rebounds. The music reverberated from ...

