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SFJAZZ Rocks The Rose!
by AAJ Staff
Believe the hype! The SFJAZZ Collective is for real! The gang gathered at Jazz at Lincoln Center in Manhattan for their east coast engagement in the aesthetically stunning and acoustically awe-inspiring Rose Theater this March 25 and March 26, 2005. Let me say right off the top that this is one of the most refreshing and ...
Sean Jones Quartet at Night Town
by C. Andrew Hovan
Night Town Cleveland Heights, OH March 20, 2005 Due to the time he spent studying at Youngstown State and gigging in Cleveland, trumpeter Sean Jones has built a large following in Northeast Ohio and indeed many of his fans made their way to Night Town on a recent Sunday evening for two ...
Jean-Michel Pilc Trio at The Jazz Bakery
by Jim Santella
The Jazz Bakery Los Angeles, California March 18, 2005 One influential factor in the winning formula that pianist Jean-Michel Pilc has adopted for his modern mainstream trio is the eye to eye contact that the threesome utilizes continuously. Drummer Tony Moreno had set up his kit so that he faced the pianist ...
SFJAZZ Collective in Mountain View, CA
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
SFJAZZ, the presenting organization behind the San Francisco Jazz Festival, likes to think big. Perhaps no project exemplifies that thinking better than the SFJAZZ Collective, a jazz super group led by local residents Joshua Redman and Bobby Hutcherson. In their last Bay Area appearance before embarking on a national tour, the Collective dazzled a full house ...
Marshall Allen and Henry Grimes: Space is the Place
by Erik R. Quick
Some performances provide entertainment, while others can be instructional about repertoire and technique. If the audience is fortunate, however, the rare element of inspiration is also present to provide a memorable evening. An Die Music" in Baltimore, Maryland -- one of the best venues on the East Coast south of New York City -- continued its ...
Sons D
by John Sharpe
Each year the Sons d'hiver festival in Paris plays host to an evening where luminaries from the New York avant-garde firmament present a taste of the Big Apple's annual Vision Festival. On 4 February 2005, three groups gathered at the Theatre Jean Vilar in the Paris suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine, before a large and enthusiastic audience, to ...
Henri Texier's Strada Sextet: Vive la Revolution!
by Daniel Spicer
Henri Texier Pavillion Theatre, Brighton, UK 17th March 2005 Tonight the air is full of revolt. Not just because of the fiery music on offer, or the defiant spirit of '68 embodied in the calmly radical physical presence of Henri Texier, the revolutionary elder statesman. No, tonight we almost witness another ...
John Geggie, Donny McCaslin & Jim Doxas at The Fourth Stage, Ottawa, Canada
by John Kelman
5 Shades of Geggie: John Geggie/Donny McCaslin/Jim Doxas National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage, Ottawa, Canada Saturday, March 12, 2005 The month of March has been an unusually good one for jazz in Ottawa, Canada. Local audiences were already treated to the Milligan-Eagles Project CD Release featuring drummer Adam Nussbaum and ...
Rez Abbasi in Ottawa, Canada
by John Kelman
Rez Abbasi The Bayou, Ottawa, Canada Saturday, March 19, 2005 New York-based guitarist Rez Abbasi rolled into town on Saturday, March 19, 2005 for a performance at Ottawa's The Bayou, in support of his latest release Snake Charmer. Using the same line-up as the album, with the exception of the ...
Jack Reilly's "Jazz Requiem" at College of DuPage, March 13, 2005
by Jeff Stockton
The lines separating jazz and classical music blur in pianist Jack Reilly's compositions as he imagines Mozart in the 21st Century, not as the romanticized classical giant, but as an improvising ensemble member in a jazz band. It's an intriguing concept: Is composition simply improvisation slowed down? And is improvisation merely composition sped up? Modeled on ...

