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Bill Frisell's 858 Quartet at The Palms Playhouse
by Dennis Hollingsworth
Bill Frisell and the 858 Quartet The Palms Playhouse Sacramento, CA February 2, 2005 This was guitarist Bill Frisell's first appearance in the Sacramento area in years, and his first ever at the Palms, a venerable folk and blues house. It would be an injustice to describe the performance of ...
The Way Up to the Green Mountains: The Pat Metheny Group Live
by Doug Collette
To his enormous credit as a musician, Pat Metheny has become more rather than less interesting as his career has developed. New Agey sounds have taken the place of airy Brazilian textures (the forgettable likes of which closed this February 15th show) while his work in studio and on the road has left him wholly unpredictable.
Pat Metheny Group Heats Up Toronto
by Alain Londes
Following its Buffalo appearance, the Pat Metheny Group performed its second concert of the anticipated world tour before a capacity crowd at the Hummingbird Center in Toronto on February 18. This was the same location where the group performed three years ago on the last world tour. Metheny recognized Toronto as a major center for the ...
Dave Pell: Sunday Jazz at The Lighthouse
by Jim Santella
Dave Pell Octet The Lighthouse Café Hermosa Beach, California February 20, 2005 Sunny Hermosa Beach has played host to great jazz for over 50 years. Originally, it was the regular Sunday jam sessions lasting from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. that brought overflowing crowds to The Lighthouse in ...
Jimmy Smith Tribute at Yoshi's
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
It was supposed to be a happy occasion.When Yoshi's jazz club in Oakland booked Jimmy Smith and Joey DeFrancesco for a five-night engagement (February 16-20), it was supposed to be the first stop on a triumphal inter-generational tour to promote Legacy , the two organists' first album-length team-up. But just one week before the gig, ...
The Magic of Miles Davis at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa
by John Kelman
The Magic of Miles Davis National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage Saturday, February 12, 2005 As the first performance in his planned series Impressions in Jazz , local bassist Adrian Cho bit off a large chunk by not only attempting to recreate legendary trumpeter Miles Davis' mid-'60s Quintet with saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist ...
Art of The Duo: Benevento & Russo Live at Higher Ground
by Doug Collette
With this, their fourth appearance in the greater Burlington area in less than a year(!), The Duo are rapidly becoming the darlings of the area music scene, but they're preparing to make a much larger impact than just Vermont's largest city: with a ballyhooed studio album set for release on Ropeadope Records in April and their ...
Pat Metheny Group in Potsdam, NY
by John Kelman
Pat Metheny Group shows have, over the years, evolved into more than mere musical performance; they are events , with the production values of a rock and roll show including a technological stage set-up second to none in the jazz world (and many in the rock world, for that matter) and, with well-conceived lighting and a ...
Alice and Ravi Coltrane Meet Branford Marsalis at the Coltrane Foundation Benefit
by Rex Butters
The John Coltrane Foundation brought elegance back to the Miracle Mile's El Rey Theatre with An Evening of Jazz, their annual benefit for the Foundation's scholarship fund. This year, in addition to catching a glimpse of Foundation president Alice Coltrane and son, saxophone slinger Ravi Coltrane, the Branford Marsalis Quartet performed an incendiary set. The dramatic ...
Mike Ladd & Vijay Iyer: In All Languages
by Rex Butters
Redcat rocked with the recent touchdown of In What Language?, Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd's acclaimed multimedia performance piece that travels through the minds of post 911 airport inhabitants of color. Richly human, Ladd's text sings with the voices of Indian Cab drivers, Iranian business men, Afro-Americans, as well as observations from those doing the scanning. ...
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