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Article: Album Review

Andrew Cyrille with Greg Osby: Low Blue Flame

Read "Low Blue Flame" reviewed by Brandt Reiter

by Brandt Reiter

"Every once in a while, the saxophonist and drummer just have to be alone. So said the venerable tenorist Benny Golson in concert a few years ago, a coy grin creeping over his face, before launching himself into the stratosphere against his drummer of the evening. “Against, because that's often the form the sax/drums duet takes--a ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Wade Barnes and the Bottom Line at Fat Cat Friday, July 20, 10 P.M.-1 A.M.

Wade Barnes and the Bottom Line at Fat Cat Friday, July 20, 10 P.M.-1 A.M.

Address: 75 Christopher St./at 7th Ave., NYC Phone: 212-675-6056 Time: 10 p.m. - 1 a.m. Featuring: Kiane Zawadi - Euphonium Terry Goss - Baritone Sax Dale Turk - Bass Trombone Ralph Hamperian - Tuba Bryan Carrot - Vibes Terence Conley - Piano Jeff Petraz ...

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Prana Trio Performs at Chris' Jazz Cafe

Prana Trio Performs at Chris' Jazz Cafe

Prana Trio: Sunny Kim, voice; Matt Aronoff, bass; Brian Adler, drums and cymbals Thursday July 19th 9pm-1am @ Chris' Jazz Cafe 1421 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA Prana is a Sanskrit word translating into breath, vital energy, or life force. Yet its actual meaning goes beyond these descriptions; it ...

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Article: Album Review

Sonny Fortune: You and the Night and the Music

Read "You and the Night and the Music" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts

While he's been overshadowed by other saxophonists throughout much of his career, Sonny Fortune has been an important force in jazz for many years, playing in a style that owes much to John Coltrane and was showcased in the bands of Coltrane's key collaborators, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner--as well as in a stint with Miles ...

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Article: Album Review

Jeff Newell's New-Trad Octet: Brownstone

Read "Brownstone" reviewed by Seamus Seoighe

by Seamus Seoighe

Brownstone, a type of sandstone that evokes the upper class urban town homes constructed at the turn of the 20th century, is also used to introduce the theme of Jeff Newell's latest release with his New-Trad Octet. An assimilation of marches and hymns dating from after the Civil War up to the early 1900s, “New in ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

ILK Music

Read "ILK Music" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon

Jazz in Denmark dates back to the early '20s and the country's freedom, social egalitarianism and support of the arts has attracted generations of musicians to resettle in its artistic center, Copenhagen. Denmark itself, with a population that is a little more than half that of NYC, has also produced jazz musicians of international stature in ...

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Article: Profile

Joe Hunt

Read "Joe Hunt" reviewed by Matthew Miller

by Matthew Miller

It's been a long time since drummer Joe Hunt called New York home, but you wouldn't know that to talk with him. “I want to spend more time in New York," intoned the veteran drummer over the phone during a recent interview between reminiscences of Ornette, The Five Spot, Bill Evans and the whirlwind pace of ...

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Article: Album Review

David Hazeltine Trio: The Jobim Songbook in New York

Read "The Jobim Songbook in New York" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes

On this project, pianist David Hazeltine takes on the music of the late Jobim (who would have turned eighty in 2007) by looking at the music from an American point of view, without the typical bossa nova elements. Most of the music presented here is well-known, from “The Girl from Ipanema to “Quiet Nights of Quiet ...

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David "Fathead" Newman: Life

Read "Life" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes

Even after decades in the music business, it's clear that David “Fathead Newman still has many, many notes left to play. Toward that end Life is a handful of chestnuts on which he displays his formidable triple-threat skills on tenor sax, alto sax and flute. Newman's sultry tenor on “Girl Talk speaks volumes ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Organist Tony Monaco to Make New York Debut July 18

Organist Tony Monaco to Make New York Debut July 18

Hammond B3 Organist Tony Monaco of Columbus, Ohio makes his New York debut with a one-night-only performance at Smoke Jazz Club on Wednesday 18th July. In a busy schedule that has seen him traveling around the globe as far down as Australia, he has at last been able to include a scheduled pit stop in New ...


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