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Moments with Max

by Nick Catalano
September 7, 2007

The passing of Max Roach will initiate countless reminiscences, retrospectives, and reassessments. With his appearances alongside Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie on “Ko-Ko"--the seminal early bebop release--"The Birth of The Cool" with Miles Davis, and on countless recordings with Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and other bop pioneers, Max set a new standard for percussion even before ...

Harry Allen and Joe Temperley: Cocktails For Two

by Joel Roberts
September 7, 2007

Swing is the thing on this enormously enjoyable outing by baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley and tenor saxophonist Harry Allen. The album features the 77-year-old Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra stalwart Temperley and the 40-year-old ex-wunderkind Allen leading a superbly sympathetic rhythm section (John Bunch on piano, Greg Cohen on bass and Jake Hanna on drums) in front ...

Tom Harrell: Light On

by Laurel Gross
September 7, 2007

Tom Harrell is like that rare good friend who is exempt from the usual “three-day rule for house guests--after which even the best of buds can loose their bloom. If he has nothing to say, he doesn't fill your ears with empty phrases. And if he knows he can't be fully present on a visit with ...

Carole Sloane: Dearest Duke

by Suzanne Lorge
September 7, 2007

One of the most fascinating things about Carol Sloane's Dearest Duke is that you can hear every discrete note of every performance on the disc, so spare is the accompaniment and so prominent are the vocals in the mix. Another interesting thing about Sloane's debut effort for Arbors: each number is a ballad. So again, you ...

Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue at the Jazz Gallery September 27th Sets@ 9:00 P.M. & 10:30 P.M

September 6, 2007

JEN SHYU & JADE TONGUE Steve Coleman Vocalist Jen Shyu performs ritual invocation about Chinese laborers in 19th Century Colonial Cuba at The Jazz Gallery September 27, 2007 (One Night Only) 2 Sets: 9:00 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, New York, NY $12 ($10 members) (New ...

Michelle Walker Live at Bar Next Door Sept. 10

September 6, 2007

Michelle Walker Performs Live @ THE BAR NEXT DOOR MONDAY September 10, 2007 New York, NY - Critically acclaimed jazz vocalist, Michelle Walker, will perform in concert at the intimate stage of The BAR NEXT DOOR in its widely respected jazz lounge on Monday September 10, 2007. She will perform sets throughout the night ...

Rufus Reid Quintet: Live at the Kennedy Center

by Jim Santella
September 6, 2007

This CD/DVD set features bassist Rufus Reid with his quintet at the famed Washington DC venue in a program of original music along with one classic tune by Duke Ellington. The quintet, featuring pianist Sumi Tonooka, drummer Tim Horner, tenor saxophonist Rich Perry and trumpeter Freddie Hendrix, follows a standard mainstream format, interpreting each theme together, ...

Jim Pepper / Amina Claudine Myers / Anthony Cox / Leopoldo Fleming: Afro Indian Blues

by Donald Elfman
September 6, 2007

It's American roots music in flying colors as four simpatico musicians dig deeply at a 1991 Austrian jazz festival. Native American (Craw) Jim Pepper, African-Americans Amina Claudine Myers and Anthony Cox and Puerto Rican Leopoldo Fleming wowed the audience with “native music--the blues, jazz, Indian and African music that seems all about the passion and power ...

Rob Reddy to Unveil New Work, Ensemble in October

September 5, 2007

Saxophonist/composer Rob Reddy and his new ensemble, Rob Reddy's Tenfold, will be in residence at Brooklyn's Jalopy Theater every Friday night in October to perform his latest and most ambitious extended work, Episodes and Antinomies. The world premiere of this ten-movement suite, commissioned by the American Composers Forum, will happen Friday, October 5th at 9:00 p.m. ...

Antoinette Montague with the Bill Easley Quartet, Saturday, Sept. 8, Yonkers Riverfest 2007

September 5, 2007