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Preservation Hall Jazz Band in Morristown, NJ
by Daniel Kassell
Quite by surprise The Preservation Hall Jazz Band sold out the restored Community Theatre on Morristown, New Jersey's historic South Street, December 3rd, 2004 with an evening billed as “Creole Christmas". Beginning with excerpts of a video documentary made for PBS television in 2000 the renowned Louis Armstrong told us that these guys and this ...
Pasadena Jazz Institute Orchestra: The Nutcracker Swings
by Jim Santella
Pasadena Jazz Institute Orchestra Pasadena, California December 18, 2004 Music and dance came to Pasadena to bolster the holiday season with echoes of Ellington and Tchaikovsky - together. From the suite of variations that Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn arranged over 40 years ago, the Pasadena Jazz Institute ...
Tomas Janzon at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
by Jim Santella
Tomas Janzon Quartet Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, California November 26, 2004 Friday Night Jazz at LACMA has remained an integral fixture of the Los Angeles jazz scene for thirteen years. Made possible by a generous grant from Dwight M. and Dona S. ...
Charlie Hunter and Bill Frisell In Cleveland
by C. Andrew Hovan
A popular attraction among the younger crowds who follow such jam bands as Medeski, Martin & Wood and Soulive, guitarist Charlie Hunter has carved a niche for himself over the years with a dance-based approach to improvisation and an enviable degree of chops that allow him to play his own bass lines in tandem with his ...
The Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fred Anderson at the Earshot Jazz Festival
by Jack Gold-Molina
The Art Ensemble Of Chicago With Fred Anderson November 6, 2002 Earshot Jazz Festival Seattle, WA The first set started slowly with woodwinds player Roscoe Mitchell striking a large metal bowl with a mallet. He did this repeatedly while Malachi Favors, who was dressed in African garments and was wearing ...
Jack DeJohnette and John Surman at the Seattle Art Museum
by Jack Gold-Molina
Jack DeJohnette and John Surman Earshot Jazz Festival Seattle Art Museum October 26, 2002 The evening began with a kind of mood piece. With a background of ambient sound programmed into a sequencer and English reeds player John Surman complementing with bass clarinet, Jack DeJohnette read poetry by Walt Whitman, ...
The Essence of Roderick Harper
by Tod Smith
In an effort to find the “next big thing" record labels often rush musicians and singers to market before they have had an opportunity to develop a unique voice. This is particularly true in jazz vocals as the never-ending quest for the next Louis Armstrong or Ella Fitzgerald more often than not leaves an overwhelmingly disappointed ...
Jazz in the Islands: 2nd Annual Anguilla Jazz Festival
by Franz A. Matzner
Transparent aqua waters, rich amber rums, miles of snow-white sand, sophisticated cuisine, crashing waves, opulent resorts, unique private villas, the meandering calm of island-time, and for four days each November, nights filled with the pulse of jazz. And not just any jazz, either. Like everything else available on this small Caribbean island, the music ...
Hot Tuna In Concert: The Triumphant Return of Higher Ground
by Doug Collette
Hot Tuna Higher Ground South Burlington VT December 2, 2004 Higher Ground reopened to the resoundingly positive note(s) of an evening with Hot Tuna on Thursday December 2nd. The club brought an end to its six-month hiatus, as the venerable blues-rockers christened its new South Burlington location with a ...
Charles Lloyd, Zakir Hussain & Erik Harland at the Dakota Jazz Club
by Derek Taylor
Charles Lloyd, Zakir Hussain & Erik Harland Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN November 18, 2004 A switch in digs from St. Paul to Minneapolis did the venerable Dakota jazz club a great deal of good. With a roomier and more acoustically friendly space on Nicollet Mall smack center in the ...
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