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Bobby Watson and Horizon at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola

by Victor L. Schermer
March 21, 2005

Bobby Watson and Horizon Dizzy's Club Coca Cola New York City March 12, 2005 I won't bother you, the reader, with the details of how I wound up at Dizzy's Coca Cola Club on March 12th, just to say that that it was unplanned. I was in New York City ...

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Bay Boppin': March 2005

by Forrest Dylan Bryant
March 21, 2005

News and views from around the San Francisco Bay Area... LIVE PERFORMANCE March has been an exciting month for live jazz in the Bay Area. Fred Hersch launched his Leaves of Grass tour in San Francisco, Pat Metheny's The Way Up tour stopped in Oakland and Santa Cruz, and SFJAZZ kicked off its 6th annual Spring ...

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Leaves of Grass, Live in Troy, NY

by R.J. DeLuke
March 20, 2005

Fred Hersch Ensemble Leaves Of Grass Concert Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, NY March 13, 2005 Accolades for Leaves of Grass, Fred Hersch's tribute to the poetry of Walt Whitman are deserved. The music is special, the words uplifting, the execution totally professional. But to hear it performed live, ...

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"Leaves Of Grass" In Philadelphia

by AAJ Staff
March 17, 2005

Fred Hersch Ensemble Leaves Of Grass Concert Kimmel Center, Philadelphia March 12, 2005 The Perelman Theater, at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, was recently graced by the Fred Hersch Ensemble's performance of Leaves Of Grass, Hersch's magnificent rendering of Walt Whitman's poetry into the jazz idiom. As good as Hersch's ...

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Roy Haynes' 80th Birthday Party at SFJAZZ

by Forrest Dylan Bryant
March 17, 2005

March 13, 2005Masonic Center AuditoriumSan Francisco, CAIt was officially “Roy Haynes Day" in his native Boston, but the master drummer himself was in San Francisco, celebrating his 80th birthday on the stage with an all-star band and 2,000 well-wishers in attendance. The party was among the signature events of this year's SFJAZZ Spring ...

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Omar Sosa at Yoshi's

by Forrest Dylan Bryant
March 13, 2005

“Another world is possible."When those four words bubbled to the surface of Omar Sosa's modern jazz stew at Yoshi's on March 2, they summed up the career of a musician who has spent years opening new vistas in Latin jazz. Weaving a magic circle of rhythm and invention around the packed club in a 90-minute ...

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Jim Pepper Tribute at the Portland Jazz Festival

by Bill Siegel
March 11, 2005

The huge pipe organ on the stage at Portland, Oregon's First Unitarian Church was imposing, even awe-inspiring, but that wasn't the cause of all the buzz among the 400-plus people in the audience on Friday night, February 11. They were there to kick off the Portland Jazz Festival with a tribute concert dedicated to Native American ...

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Tim Berne's Acoustic Hard Cell - Ottawa, Canada

by John Kelman
March 10, 2005

Tim Berne's Acoustic Hard Cell National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage Ottawa, Canada Tuesday, March 8, 2005 It may have been a frigidly cold night in Ottawa, Canada on Tuesday, March 8, 2005, but for 90 minutes alto saxophonist Tim Berne and his Acoustic Hard Cell trio warmed things up considerably ...

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Milligan-Eagles Project CD Release with Adam Nussbaum

by John Kelman
March 9, 2005

Milligan-Eagles Project with Adam NussbaumTheatre of the National LibraryOttawa, CanadaMarch 3, 2005 With the ink still fresh on their new CD, Milligan-Eagles Project featuring Billy Kilson, double-bassist Mike Milligan and guitarist Wayne Eagles brought their music to a sizable crowd at Ottawa's National Library on Thursday, March 3, 2005. While ...

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Tel Aviv Jazz Festival 2005

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 7, 2005

Some concerts are a once in a lifetime experience. Such an experience was the Roy Campbell Pyramid Trio, featuring William Parker on bass and Hamid Drake on drums, performing on the last day of the Festival in the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. Jazz in its highest form, charged with energy, intense and free, committed and compassionate, and ...