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Pianist Mark Kramer on Nov. 16th in Media (PA) at the Unitarian Universalist Church
Appearing at the Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Concerts at Jazz in Media! will be pianist Mark Kramer at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 145 W. Rose Tree Road in Media, PA, on November 16th, 2011. With him will be bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and drummer John Mosemann. One Show: 7:30-9 p.m. $10/$5 students. No advance sales. For info: 610-745-301. ...
Roberta Piket: Making a Difference
by Victor L. Schermer
Roberta Piket is a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger with an exceptional range of expression. In the same tune or performance, she moves fluidly between bebop, hard bop, blues, soft and mellow, up-tempo, contrapuntal, and advanced harmonic motifs, making it all come together in meaningful, coherent statements of ideas and emotions. She thinks hard when she ...
Jazz Bridge Presents Ralph Bowen at Cheltenham Art Center on January 5, 2011
Saxophonist Ralph Bowen has made his mark on the New York jazz scene for over two decades, while bringing his “casual perfectionism" to clubs, concert halls, and festivals worldwide. Bowen's discography of over 60 titles includes collaborations with Orrin Evans, Michel Camilo, and Horace Silver. Bowen will be appearing at the Cheltenham Art Center, 439 Ashbourne ...
Lauren Hooker: Life Of The Music
by Bruce Lindsay
Singer and pianist Lauren Hooker takes chances on Life Of The Music, her second album. She sets her own compositions up against classics of American music, re-works old favourites and uses some vocal shifts and inflections that other singers might think twice about. And thank goodness she does, because in doing so Hooker has assembled a ...
Take Five With Ark Ovrutski
by AAJ Staff
Meet Ark Ovrutski:Ark started building his career in Kiev,Ukraine. By the time he graduated Kiev music college and moved to Moscow where he graduated Russian Academy of music in 1992. In the mid-1990s, Ark left Moscow and relocated to Poland, where he became highly-regarded through performances in multiple groups. From then, Ark's performance and ...
Lauren Hooker: Life Of The Music
by Dan Bilawsky
In 2007, vocalist Lauren Hooker turned out an impressive debut, Right Where I Belong (Musical Legends, Inc., 2007), which highlighted her solid, yet flexible, voice, and an ability to graft her own lyrics onto familiar instrumental jazz standards. Three years later, Hooker returns with a program that largely focuses on her own lyrics and music, demonstrating ...
Richard Sussman: Live At Sweet Rhythm
by Dan Bilawsky
Life has few certainties, but the constant and ever-moving nature of time is one of them. Events, both miniscule and monumental, pass by and usually leave nothing more than a memory or, in the case of music, a record. Such was the case with pianist Richard Sussman's Free Fall (Inner City Records, 1978). Joined by some ...
Richard Sussman Quintet: Live at Sweet William
by Larry Taylor
In 1979, pianist Richard Sussman's recording Free Fall was released on Inner City to some acclaim. Now, over three decades later, Sussman brings back his band mates from the seventies to perform on Live at Sweet William. Chief among them is trumpeter Tom Harrell, who gives further evidence that he is a genius of improvisation.
Harris Simon: The Mastery of Passion
by Larry Taylor
Discovering gold in reissues going 30 years back is always a pleasure. Such is the case with Harris Simon's The Mastery of Passion, featuring selections from CDs first released on Japan's Pony Canyon label--New York Connection (1978) and Swish (1980). Simon was in his early twenties at the time of these dates, fast gaining recognition as ...
Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation
by Jack Bowers
Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, Chuck Owen's superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. As Owen writes in the liner notes, “[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may ...
