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News: Performance / Tour

The 5th Season of Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open Continues With Michael Formanek

The 5th Season of Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open Continues With Michael Formanek

Connection Works Presents The 5th Season of Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open at The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Concert Hall The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is located at 58 Seventh Ave (at Lincoln Place), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, 718 622 3300, reduced admission! Tickets are now $10! NEXT Concert of the 2011-2012 season Saturday, November 5, 2011 ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Thirsty Ear at Stone Curated by Peter Gordon: October 1-15

Thirsty Ear at Stone Curated by Peter Gordon: October 1-15

In 1990, Thirsty Ear made its emergence as a record label of its own, quickly accelerating its position and becoming one of the top alternative independent labels within the U.S. music industry. Since its beginning in 2000, the story of the Blue Series has been one of focused, organic evolution. From free jazz masters, legends in ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Thirsty Ear at The Stone (NYC) October 1st to the 15th

Thirsty Ear at The Stone (NYC) October 1st to the 15th

Tapping into the vast resources of Thirsty Ear's much-heralded Blue Series, President Peter Gordon will be curating two weeks at The Stone, from October 1st to October 15th. From free jazz masters, legends in their own time, to some of the most innovative hip-hop and electronic music producers, to individuals whose music defies any such labeling, ...

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News: Recording

Craig Taborn - Avenging Angel (2011)

Craig Taborn - Avenging Angel (2011)

Finally. After more than four years of noting on this space his key contributions to other people's records, including list-topping performances led by David Torn, Chris Potter and Michael Formanek, we get to talk about a record actually led by one of the very top keyboardists working in downtown New York today. That's because a few ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

CrossCurrent 3: A Cry for Cultural Development

Read "CrossCurrent 3: A Cry for Cultural Development" reviewed by Gian Paolo Galasi


CrossCurrent Festival 3: Press Conference Piazza Loggia, Café Aquarium Brescia, Italy June 21, 2011 This space may not be the most fitting for an extended cultural/sociological analysis of how artistic expression and economical acknowledgment feeds each other, but there are events that can be taken as a good starting point for ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Craig Taborn: Avenging Angel

Read "Craig Taborn: Avenging Angel" reviewed by John Kelman


He puts out albums under his own name so rarely, while amassing a discography as a sideman/co-leader that's almost unparalleled in its sheer size and stylistic breadth—with over 100 recordings to date, since he first showed up in saxophonist James Carter's groups of the mid-1990s—that it's cause for celebration any time pianist Craig Taborn gets around ...

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Article: Album Review

Tim Berne: Insomnia

Read "Insomnia" reviewed by Troy Collins


Recorded in the summer of 1997, the previously unreleased Insomnia offers an expanded variation of composer/saxophonist Tim Berne's critically lauded 1990s quartet, Bloodcount. The group, which featured Berne (on alto and baritone saxophones), tenor saxophonist/clarinetist Chris Speed, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Jim Black, was widely revered for its ability to fashion dramatic opuses that seamlessly ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Tim Berne: Insomnia

Read "Tim Berne: Insomnia" reviewed by Charles Walker


Tim BerneInsomniaClean Feed2011 In the medical world, a blood count is a clinical tool, a method of aggregating data in order to make a diagnosis. In short, it's a way of picturing the lay of the land and from there determining the best path forward. Alto saxophonist Tim ...

Album

The Rub And Spare Change

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Twenty Three Neo; The Rub And Spare Change; Inside The Box; Jack's Last Call; Tonal Suite; Too Big To Fail.

Album

Ground Rush

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: 01. Mr. Mc; 02. Fife; 03. Filthy Rich (Arguelles/Formanek/Rainey); 04. Blood Eagle; 05. From One JC to Another; 06. Bulerias; 07. Know Excuses (Arguelles/Formanek/Rainey); 08. Redman. Tutte le composizioni sono di Julian Arguelles tranne quelle indicate.


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