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Jim Ridl Performs Dave Brubeck's "Hold Fast to Dreams"
by Victor L. Schermer
The Jim Ridl Jazz Quartet Performing Dave Brubeck's Hold Fast to Dreams" Set to the poems of Langston Hughes Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton Saturday, February 12, 2005 Sometimes we need to be reminded who we are and what's important in life. The essentials are easily forgotten in the ...
Stefon Harris and Lizz Wright at UCLA
by Jim Santella
Stefon Harris and Lizz Wright in Concert Royce Hall, UCLA Los Angeles, California February 11, 2005 In an exclusive double bill, the famed Royce Hall auditorium on UCLA's main campus in L.A. played host to concerts by Stefon Harris & Blackout as well as Lizz Wright and her trio ...
The Brotherhood of the Drum
by Jack Gold-Molina
The Brotherhood of the Drum November 17-18, 2004 Tractor Tavern, SeattleThe Brotherhood of the Drum was presented at the Tractor Tavern on November 17 & 18 as part of the 2004 Ballard Jazz Festival. With a theme of let the drummers have some!," the concept was fraternity and variety of which ...
Abdullah Ibrahim Trio at the Earshot Jazz Festival
by Ryan Burns
(One person says) You see that man over there? He's very talented. He speaks 40 languages!'? (The other replies) Oh yeah, Well what does he say?'? ~Abdullah Ibrahim (after being asked by an interviewer how many languages he speaks)A man of few words yet full of musical expression, South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim recently paid ...
Northwest Musicians featured at the 2005 IAJE Convention
by AAJ Staff
By Jason Mueller For four days every January, the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference (IAJE) is the center of the jazz universe. What started 32 years ago as a conference for jazz educators has now become the place to be for over 7,000 musicians, radio personalities, media, promoters and the jazz business community. This year ...
Addison Groove Project Live: The Beat Goes On
by Doug Collette
Boston' s Addison Groove Project turned their first visit to the new Higher Ground into a dance party for the new millennium this Thursday night. It was a testament to the infectious nature of their music as well as their direct connection to their young audience that when the dance floor filled up, it stayed that ...
Mose Allison at Yoshi's
by Forrest Dylan Bryant
Is there any living jazz artist so utterly, comprehensively American as Mose Allison? His melting-pot piano style, which seamlessly combines the sounds of back country and big city; his carefree, everyman way of singing; his sly cynicism -- these are all reflections of the national character, and the basis of his five decades of popularity.Allison ...
Bridging Time: The Kennedy Center Presents Anita O'Day
by Franz A. Matzner
As part of the Kennedy Center's ongoing series celebrating 1940's music, dance, film, and culture, the KC Jazz club offered a special concert last week hosted by bass phenomenon Chip Jackson honoring one of jazz's first ladies of song, Anita O'Day. The concert was held in the Kennedy Center's elegant jazz club, the ...
McCoy Tyner Trio at Yoshi's
by Bret Primack
On the last Saturday night in January, during the first week of McCoy Tyner's annual two week residency at Yoshi's, I made the trip from Tucson to hear a Tyner Trio featuring Stanley Clarke and Billy Cobham. That sort of lineup, all too infrequent, was cause of celebration, and worth the thousand mile journey.I've heard ...
London Jazz Festival 2004
by Daniel Spicer
Index Future Sounds of Jazz Matthew Bourne and the Distortion Trio Ganelin Trio Clearframe Bicycle Clip Sex/Gail Brand and Gina Southgate/Badland Future Sounds of Jazz Royal Festival Hall, London, UK November 12th 2004 The first thing to note ...

