Results for "New York City"

Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut's "Allemansratten"

December 19, 2006

Jeffrey hayden Shurdut Quintet Allemansratten Ayler Records, aylDL-045 Gaz-Eta By Tom Sekowski “Allemansratten" or “all of man's right to freedom" is a perfect translation of guitarist/composer Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut's concept of music. His take on leadership is that “a leader who knows how to lead without leading." Quintet he amassed ...

David Berger and the Sultans of Swing: The Harlem Nutcracker

by Budd Kopman
December 18, 2006

It is that time of year again, and David Berger's adaptation and extension of Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn's Harlem Nutcracker suite is one swinging way to enjoy music of this season. This release is a reissue of the original. The short story is that Berger, an expert on Ellington and a top notch transcriber, ...

The Creative Music Workshop presents phase II concert with Matt Wilson as guest

December 17, 2006

Refuge Trio with Theo Bleckmann, John Hollenbeck and Gary Versace at Joe's Pub 1/13/07 at 7PM

December 17, 2006

"Expect the unexpected with the refuge trio, featuring the vocalist Theo Bleckmann, the drummer John Hollenbeck, and the keyboardist Gary Versace. Bleckmann and Hollenbeck have enough new-music, cabaret, and jazz chops to move the music in any direction they want, while Versace has lately been making big noise on his Hammond organ." - The New Yorker ...

Jamie Saft: Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan

by Kurt Gottschalk
December 17, 2006

It's a story almost as old as rock itself: Bob Dylan, the pop poet laureate, can't sing or play guitar, but he sure can write lyrics. Never mind that he was one of the most evocative vocalists of the '60s, who could turn a phrase as brilliantly well with his mouth as he could his pen. ...

Roscoe Mitchell: No Side Effects

by Marc Medwin
December 17, 2006

Very few musicians have made a first statement like Roscoe Mitchell's Sound, recorded for Delmark in 1966. Like the proverbial big bang's reverberations, all of his subsequent work consists of gestures from but not confined to that era and the freedom it fostered. Mitchell's recordings can elicit a deeply intuitive but ultimately inexplicable ...

Jason Lindner: Ab Aeterno

by Terrell Kent Holmes
December 17, 2006

The defining track on Jason Lindner's excellent Ab Aeterno isn't an original composition, it's a medley of two Bud Powell tunes: “Sure Thing and “Glass Enclosure. Powell balanced bebop and classical idioms wonderfully on these songs and showed that even if the two kinds of music were distant relatives, they still shared a common language. Lindner ...

Sunday Freestyle Jazz Series in NYC

December 16, 2006

Dee Pop presents: Freestyle Jazz @ Jimmy's Restaurant 43 East 7th Street * NYC * 212-982-3006 SUNDAY Dec 17 Paloma Recio: Ben Monder, Tony Malaby, Eivind Opsvik, Nasheet Waits Jan 7 7pm - 8:30 John Sinclair & Friends 8:30 - 11Pm Michael Attias & Renku W/John Hebert & ...

Sonny Fortune: Trilogy Collection

by Florence Wetzel
December 16, 2006

Sonny Fortune Trilogy Collection Sound Reason 2006 Jazz is blessed by the music of alto saxophonist and flutist Sonny Fortune, a living master who always plays directly from the heart. In addition to his work with Miles Davis, Buddy Rich, Elvin Jones, Nat Adderley, and Mongo Santamaria, over the years ...

Russell Malone: Live At Jazz Standard

by Terrell Kent Holmes
December 16, 2006

Russell Malone played a week-long engagement at Jazz Standard in November, ostensibly to promote the release of this album. Malone was backed on both ventures by the solid rhythm section of bassist Tassili Bond, pianist Martin Bejerano and drummer Johnathan Blake. A lyrical, inventive guitarist, you can almost see Malone thinking out loud on the ...