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News: Performance / Tour

Bendy-Pastorius Group (Mon) David Kikoski (Tue) Titus Ribas (Wed) Alex Sipiagin (Thu) Manuel Valera (Fri-Sat) This Week at Cachaca

August 14, 2007

Cachaa 35 West 8th St (bet. 5th & 6th Aves.) NYC * tel 212-388-9099 sets at 9,11 & 1am * $10 cover, $15 min. Menus from selected restaurants available New York City's Newest Jazz Hang In The Heart of Greenwich Village This Week At Cachaca Mon. ...

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News: Event

Jessica Medina @ Tavern on the Green's Jazz Thursdays

August 12, 2007

Summer Concert Series sponsored by Urban Latino Magazine, SouLatino & CD 101.9 includes performances by Jessica Medina on Thursday August 16th Performances start at 8pm Tavern on The Green Central Park West & 67th street Come and enjoy an evening of cool summer sounds! Jessica Medina with Brazilian trio featuring Helio Alves - piano, ...

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Article: Profile

Fred Katz

by Elliott Simon
August 12, 2007

Fred Katz is generally credited with being the first musician to explore the possibility of the cello as a jazz instrument. He accomplished this while an integral member of drummer Chico Hamilton's influential '50s quintet and through his own solo works such as Soul-o-cello (Decca, 1957), Fred Katz and His Jammers (Decca, 1958) and Zen (World ...

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Article: Live Review

Vision Festival XII, NYC

by Marc Medwin
August 12, 2007

Vision Festival Angel Orensanz Center New York, NY June 19-24, 2007 I must begin on a strictly personal note. The 12th annual Vision Festival, held at the Angel Orensanz Center, was my first. Even if certain of the artists' visions did not translate for me in the way ...

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Article: Live Review

Suoni per il Popolo Festival 2007, Montreal

by Mathieu Belanger
August 11, 2007

Suoni per il Popolo Festival Montreal, Canada June 1-27, 2007 The Suoni per il Popolo is an annual festival organized by the people running Casa del Popolo and La Sala Rossa, two of Montreal's most important venues for new music. Since its beginning in 2001, the festival has established itself as a ...

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Article: Album Review

Insight: A Genesis

Read "A Genesis" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
August 11, 2007

Brothers Zaccai and Luques Curtis are the driving force behind the group Insight, whose A Genesis is a spirited blend of Latin jazz with elements from other genres. Pianist Zaccai composed most of the songs and the music is arranged and performed with skill and energy. Latin burners like “Necessity and the passionate ...

News: Event

Blue Owl Jazz Series

August 10, 2007

Blue Owl Jazz Series Presents: Jazz artists, Since When? Performing with bassist/composer Terence Culpepper will be guest musicians Yasuyuki (Yaz) Takagi and Eric J. Smith. Performing music by Miles Davis, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stevie Wonder and some Since When? originals too. Every Sunday evening in August, 8:30 - 11:00 pm $5 music ...

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Article: Opinion

Words on World Jazz

by AAJ Staff
August 10, 2007

By Kali Z. Fasteau Let's take a dialectic approach to the subject of 'world jazz', looking at both the macro contours (the big picture) and the micro tones, like the Indian term 'sruti': the smallest audible difference of pitch. In response to questions about genre, I started using this term because it directly ...

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Article: Album Review

Ganelin Trio Priority: Live in Lugano 2006

Read "Live in Lugano 2006" reviewed by Marc Medwin

by Marc Medwin
August 10, 2007

There's nothing like hearing a group in concert to reawaken interest. The Ganelin Trio Priority played a staggering set on the penultimate evening of the June, 2007 Vision Festival, a continuous and constantly morphing shock-and-awe campaign in which all national and international demarcations were obliterated. Slava Ganelin himself, the founder and only original member of the ...

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Article: Album Review

Abbey Lincoln: Abbey Sings Abbey

Read "Abbey Sings Abbey" reviewed by Suzanne Lorge

by Suzanne Lorge
August 10, 2007

At almost 77 years of age Abbey Lincoln has been composing, writing and/or performing for almost sixty years, and Abbey Sings Abbey is a stunning collection of some of the singer's most memorable works. Lincoln is a writer of some depth and the eleven original tunes on this CD offer strong testament to her ...