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They Came to Play - Larry Carlton & The Sapphire Blues Band
by AAJ Staff
Larry Carlton & The Sapphire Blues Band The Iridium, New York City December 4, 2003 They came to play. The U.S. debut of Larry Carlton & The Sapphire Blues Band was spectacular. The horn section alone blew the doors off of New York City's popular jazz club, The Iridium, located at 51st ...
The Waterboys At Town Hall
by Mike Perciaccante
The Waterboys Town Hall New York City December 4, 2003 Stating that (because fiddle player Steve Wickham was laid up back in Ireland after some minor surgery) “this is the smallest version of The Waterboys ever to grace the stage," Mike Scott and Richard Naiff delivered a tour de ...
Pat Metheny Solo and Trio
by C. Andrew Hovan
Pat Metheny Solo and Trio Severence Hall Cleveland, Ohio November 9, 2003 It might serve useful to consider Pat Metheny’s chameleon-like activity as a musician akin to the trend-setting ways of Miles Davis. Like Davis, Metheny prefers to keep his sights on new horizons as opposed to recreating a known ...
Arve Henriksen and Terje Isungset: Two Friends In Nature
by Colin Buttimer
Arve Henriksen, dark haired, almost boyish, appears on the darkened stage and seats himself on a stool lit by a single pool of light. He picks up his trumpet and proceeds to demarcate space and delineate feeling by the force and dissipation of his breath. Henriksen understands the nature of his instrument as a ...
The Standards Trio In Seattle
by Jason West
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA Friday, November 14, 2003 Presented as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival Walking into Benaroya Hall at 7:55pm it was apparent by the hundreds of people in line at will call that the scheduled 8pm start would have to be ...
Brian Setzer's Christmas Extravaganza
by Mike Perciaccante
Westbury Music Fair Westbury, NY December 2003 Bounding on stage to the Louis Armstrong Christmas classic, “'Zat You Santa Claus?", Brian Setzer and his 18-piece orchestra (along with backup singers Beth Curry and Julie Reiten dressed as Christmas elves) took control of the Westbury Music Fair for two hours on this cool ...
Bobby Bradford and Vinny Golia at Line Space Line
by Rex Butters
Line Space Line played host to an Improviser’s Summit, presenting reed king Vinny Golia and the masterful Bobby Bradford to a room crowded up against the black walls of the Salvation Theater. Billed as an evening of duets and solos, the longtime LA mainstays mostly played together and used written arrangements as their launching pads. Golia, ...
Sam Rivers Celebrates His 80th at the Jazz Bakery
by Rex Butters
Sam Rivers brought his boundless goodwill and energy to the Jazz Bakery for a week to celebrate his 80th birthday with adoring fans. The amazing Rivers played two sets a night, and jammed and recorded with local musicians after hours. The ebullient octogenarian performed with his longtime trio featuring Doug Matthews and Anthony Cole. Like Rivers, ...
Odean Pope Brings Philly to DC
by Matt Merewitz
A markedly different and original musician, Odean Pope offers a saxophonic approach that sounds nothing like saxophone. In fact if anything it sounds more like wood flute or mellophone despite a typical tenor setup (with metal mouthpiece). Odean Pope was born in the town in the town of Ninety Six, South Carolina, but grew ...
On Tour With The Evan Parker Trio
by Frank Rubolino
With Alexander Von Schlippenbach and Paul Lytton Barnevelder Movement Arts, Houston Texas May 2, 2003 For nearly four decades, Evan Parker has been creating exciting music in the trio context, and Alexander Von Schlippenbach and Paul Lytton have shared extensively in this creative process. They were reunited once more in Houston as ...
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