Home » Search Center » Results: Live Reviews

Results for "Live Reviews"

Advanced search options

148

Article: Live Review

Contemporary Jazz, Slightly Offstream

Read "Contemporary Jazz, Slightly Offstream" reviewed by Roy Strassman

by Roy Strassman

Michael Wolff & Impure Thoughts Jazz Alley Seattle, WA November 7, 2000Michael Wolff and Impure Thoughts blew into town accompanying the incoming weather front with a hard-driving rainstorm of its own—one of trance-like percussion and bass grooves and heavy winds blowin' in over the reeds and piano strings. The light “voter ...

270

Article: Live Review

Contemporary Afro-Cuban Jazz—Irakere

Read "Contemporary Afro-Cuban Jazz—Irakere" reviewed by Roy Strassman

by Roy Strassman

Irakere Jazz Alley Seattle, WA October 31, 2000 Last night Irakere, the cutting-edge Havana based group which pioneered both the fusion of classical Cuban music and jazz and the melding of the culture's traditional instruments with electric ones, opened for a week's stint at Seattle's Jazz Alley. Absent their ...

206

Article: Live Review

Pat Martino Trio at Jazz Alley

Read "Pat Martino Trio at Jazz Alley" reviewed by Roy Strassman

by Roy Strassman

Pat Martino Trio Jazz Alley Seattle, WA October 31, 2000Amidst good tidings, packed house and festive d'cor, replete with onstage Christmas tree, the Three Jazzmen journeyed to the West, Seattle's Jazz Alley, thereby annunciating the holy rebirth of jazz guitar-organ funk. The jazzmen in question are none other ...

311

Article: Live Review

Heirs Swing Jazz In Louis Armstrong's Shadow

Read "Heirs Swing Jazz In Louis Armstrong's Shadow
" reviewed by Daniel Kassell

by Daniel Kassell

Since July 4th, 2000, Louis Armstrong's (LA) celebrated birthday, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (LCJO) led by the New Orleans trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (WM) has demonstrated American music's roots and it will continue until August 4th 2001 (the more recently discovered baptismal birth date).“HEIRS TO THE THRONE Masters Play Armstrong", December 7th, 2000 at New ...

256

Article: Live Review

Chick Corea Trio Musical Palette Delights Holiday Audiences

Read "Chick Corea Trio Musical Palette Delights Holiday Audiences 
" reviewed by Paula Edelstein

by Paula Edelstein

Catalina’s Bar & Grill Los Angeles, CA December 17, 2000 The holiday season is tinged with varied emotions best expressed in music. Wonder, awe, gaiety and warmth all emanated from the standing room only audience at Catalina’s Bar & Grill in Los Angeles, California on December 17th, 2000 for The ...

282

Article: Live Review

Andy Fusco Sextet

Read "Andy Fusco Sextet 
" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann

The concert featuring the Andy Fusco Sextet at Kean University’s (Union, NJ) Wilkins Theatre might have just as easily been billed as the Criss Cross Jazz All Stars. Four members of the band, Fusco on alto saxophone, tenor saxophonist Walt Weiskopf, pianist Joel Weiskopf, and drummer Billy Drummond, have all recorded under their own names for ...

120

Article: Live Review

Lou Donaldson Quartet

Read "Lou Donaldson Quartet 
" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan

Night Town Cleveland Heights, Ohio November 18, 2001 There was literally just enough time to unload the bags from the car and into the house and then get back on the road. Friday night I had been in Columbus to catch the Herbie Nichols Project and visit some friends the ...

116

Article: Live Review

The Herbie Nichols Project

Read "The Herbie Nichols Project" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan

Wexner Center For The Arts Columbus, Ohio November 16, 2001 Part of a brief fall tour that brought them through the Southern part of Ohio, it was a rare treat to hear the likes of The Herbie Nichols Project on the campus of Ohio State University. The intimate and acoustically ...

516

Article: Live Review

Lucerne Piano Festival

Read "Lucerne Piano Festival" reviewed by David Adler

by David Adler

Lucerne, Switzerland Concert Hall, Cultural and Congress Center November 20-25, 2001 Lucerne is a musical city. Its annual music festival occurs in three acts and covers the better part of the year. First there’s Ostern (Easter), then Sommer (summer), and finally, in the fall, Piano. European classical music dominates the ...

61

Article: Live Review

Torben Waldorff Quintet

Read "Torben Waldorff Quintet" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Submitted on behalf of Anthony Gallo When I read the advertisement for this show in the Boston Phoenix, I knew this show was going to be to hard to pass up. The person, whoever he was, charged with writing a little blurb about what the show would be like, compared Torben Woldorff's Quartet to Miles Second ...


Engage

Publisher's Desk
This & That, Part 9... plus, Newsletter News!
Read on...
The place for jazz polls and surveys!
Reader Polls
Which jazz venues deserve to be on top?
Cast Your Vote Today
The Big Question
Which Writer Or Broadcaster Has Most Influenced Your Appreciation of Jazz?
Post Your Comment

Get more of a good thing!

Our weekly newsletters highlight our top stories, top album reviews, website news, free songs, radio & podcast shows, news, and upcoming jazz events near you.

Install All About Jazz

iOS Instructions:

To install this app, follow these steps:

All About Jazz would like to send you notifications

Notifications include timely alerts to content of interest, such as articles, reviews, new features, and more. These can be configured in Settings.