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Peter Van Huffel Quintet Celebrates the Release of "Silvester Battlefield" in Toronto and Montreal!
The Peter Van Huffel Quintet will be releasing their first CD for the renowned jazz label, Fresh Sound / New Talent in Canada this week. This New York based ensemble has spent the past three years performing around NYC and abroad, and has built a sound as an ensemble that is constantly exiting and unpredictable. The ...
Komeda Project: Crazy Girl
by Elliott Simon
The legacy of the great Polish jazz composer/pianist Krzysztof Komeda runs especially deep, while straddling the worlds of film music and modern jazz. While his life was sadly cut short in 1969 at the age of 38, his compositional output included more than sixty film scores and the influential European classic Astigmatic (Power Bros, 1966), with ...
Brad Mehldau: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Brad Mehldau
by Ken Dryden
Brad Mehldau's 1996 appearance on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz is a typically enjoyable program in this long running NPR series, featuring the then up-and-coming pianist playing at the top of his game and engaging in enlightening conversation with his host about his interests and influences. Yet another musician who initially began classical studies but gravitated to ...
Keith Jarrett: The Carnegie Hall Concert
by Andrew Velez
Whether on his own or in company the likes of Charlie Haden, Miles Davis and Charles Lloyd, pianist Keith Jarrett has always been a trailblazer. This double-disc set of his first North American solo concert in a decade amply demonstrates just how wide-ranging and intense his performances can be. Each of these 2006 sets forms a ...
The Cracow Klezmer Band: Remembrance
by Elliott Simon
This month, Krakow, Poland plays host to the world's top klezmer musicians as they take part in the city's 17th Jewish Cultural Festival. That a celebratory event of this magnitude occurs in a city that, prior to the Holocaust, was home to one of the most important Jewish cultural centers in Europe is evidence of this ...
"Broadway Swings" Sundays at 7 PM at the Iridium Jazz Club
BARRY LEVITT Presents “Broadway Swings" At the IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 Sundays at 7pm- $20.00 Cover, $15 Minimum: Legendary Broadway performers performing Broadway material in a casual jazz setting. A one hour ...
June 2007
by AAJ Staff
Laura Andel at The Kitchen Laura Andel works in mostly composed pieces for large ensembles and so the opportunities to hear her work are rare. But following notable recordings and performances of her SomnabUlisT and In::tension: over the last few years, her new Doble Mano for nonet was a major statement from the young composer. The ...
Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art
by Francis Lo Kee
Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art Andy Hamilton paperback; 312 pages ISBN: 0472032178 University of Michigan Press 2007 It's mentioned in the author's introduction to this new tome that Konitz himself had doubts that people would be interested in a series of interviews with him ...
Trio Beyond: Saudades
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
It's interesting to note how many liner notes begin with variations upon the same story. A shared enthusiasm for a jazz icon or a similar approach to playing leads musicians for whom the very thought of collaborating seems uncanny to form a trio, a quartet, or what have you. The group is usually solid, with decent ...
Joel Harrison: Harbor
by Donald Elfman
Joel Harrison is a sound explorer and that comes through in his rich, multi-colored compositions, his deftly textured arrangements and his expressive playing. He has forged a career in which each new development builds on what came before it but offers new and different surprises. Harbor is the result of a joint commission by the French ...
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