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News: Recording

New World Records Proudly Releases Saxophonist/Composer Marty Ehrlich's New Recording, A Trumpet In The Morning

October 4, 2013

Available on November 12, 2013 A Trumpet in the Morning is Ehrlich's first recording in 13 years devoted entirely to his large ensemble compositions, featuring J.D. Parran, Ron Horton, James Zollar, Howard Johnson, Ray Anderson, Jerome Harris, Uri Caine, Drew Gress, Eric McPherson, Matt Wilson & many others MARTY EHRLICH STONE RESIDENCY @ The ...

Article: Interview

Christy Doran: New Bag, New Tricks

by Ian Patterson
June 10, 2013

The opening concert at the 14th Bray Jazz Festival in May, just half an hour outside Dublin in County Wicklow, was something of a homecoming gig for Irish guitarist Christy Doran and his quartet New Bag. Doran was born 63 years ago, just a few short miles down the road from Bray, in Greystones, though at ...

Article: Live Review

Bray Jazz Festival 2013

by Ian Patterson
May 18, 2013

Bray Jazz FestivalBray, County WicklowIrelandMay 3-5, 2013 For many years, the picturesque town of Bray's main claim to fame has been that it's the oldest inhabited seaside town in Ireland. That is, it was the main claim to fame until Bray local lass Katie Taylor won boxing gold at the 2012 ...

Article: Live Review

Yusef Lateef: Celebrating 75 Years of Music at Roulette in Brooklyn

by Scott Krane
April 9, 2013

Rarely in the history of contemporary American music has one artist iconized as many aspects of organized sound as Yusef Lateef who appeared in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday night, April 6, at the new Brooklyn version of the Manhattan performance space, Roulette, near the new Barclay's Arena. In a two-hour performance billed, “Yusef Lateef: Celebrating ...

Article: Album Review

Laila Salins: Elevator Into The Sky

Read "Elevator Into The Sky" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 12, 2013

On Smash, pianist/composer Patricia Barber wrote songs quite reminiscent of the late American poet Anne Sexton's (1928-1974) poetry: abstract and almost, but not quite, inaccessible. On Elevator Into The Sky, Latvian-American singer/composer Laila Salins adapts poems by Sexton for her lyric book, backing them with a competent and far-reaching band. This project is as ambitious as ...

Article: Live From New York

Barry Altschul, William Hooker, Bobby Previte & Andrew Cyrille

by Martin Longley
January 22, 2013

Barry Altschul Roulette January 8, 2013 Another 70th birthday to celebrate, another musician who commands the appearance and vitality of a much younger player. New York drummer Barry Altschul actually hit 70 two days before this celebratory gig at Roulette. The long-established experimental music venue is now settling in ...

Album

Frog Leg Logic

By Marty Ehrlich

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Frog Leg Logic; Ballade; You Can Beat the Slanted Cards; Walk Along the Way; Solace; My Song; The Gravedigger's Respite.

Article: Album Review

Jason Robinson: Tiresian Symmetry

Read "Tiresian Symmetry" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 20, 2012

Composer and reed player Jason Robinson tends to weave his musical projects with multiple and overlapping narrative layers, and Tiresian Symmetry is no different. It is more ambitious than his previous large ensemble project, The Two Faces of Janus (Cuneiform, 2010), but still draws inspiration from Greek mythology. This time he was inspired by the mythical ...

Article: Live Review

Angel City Jazz Festival: Hollywood, CA, Oct. 5, 2012

by Chuck Koton
November 11, 2012

Angel City Jazz FestivalJohn Anson Ford AmphitheaterHollywood, CAOctober 7, 2012A bright, golden sun, cobalt sky and cool breeze welcomed Southland jazz lovers to the friendly confines of the John Anson Ford Amphitheater for the fifth annual Angel City Jazz Festival. Eagerly anticipated by serious and passionate jazz aficionados, the festival's founder, ...

News: Event

The Possibilities Are Endless: Celebrating 40 Years Of Contemporary Improvisation At New England Conservatory

August 2, 2012

Concerts in Boston and New York Featuring Distinguished Faculty, Alumni and Students of NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation Department August 3, 2012 – April 8, 2013 The possibilities are endless at New England Conservatory, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of its groundbreaking Contemporary Improvisation department with a year-long series of concerts and events in Boston and New York ...