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Madeleine Peyroux: Half The Perfect World

by Suzanne Lorge
December 6, 2006

Madeleine Peyroux confidently walks the line where jazz, country and blues collide--her understated vocals and Billie Holiday-esque phrasing are what pull the disparate elements of her performance together into an engaging pastiche. Peyroux's bailiwick is pop covers with stylized jazz arrangements: On the Leonard Cohen/Anjani Thomas title cut, “Half The Perfect World," her ...

Sathima Bea Benjamin: SongSpirit

by AAJ Staff
December 6, 2006

To celebrate her recent septuagenarian status, vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin selected twelve tracks spanning eight releases for inclusion on SongSpirit, from her first early-'60s sessions to her latest disc (Musical Echoes, 2002), in essence releasing a “greatest hits compilation--though who in jazz makes hit records?! Benjamin wisely selects an array of gems, particularly ...

Dekel Bor Trio performing Tonight at Charley O's

December 5, 2006

Updated Stone (NYC) Schedule: December 6-10

December 5, 2006

Due to ill health, Lol Coxhill could not fly here this week for his sets at The Stone. Lol had a hip operation earlier this year, has been having hearing problems as of late and fears not being able to play well or at all when he was to arrive in New York earlier today. We ...

Hot Stride Piano by 22-Year-Old French Pianist at Shutters Cafe Dec 16

December 5, 2006

Hot Stride Piano “Little Fats" Jean-Baptiste Franc - piano supported by Australian drummer Adam Pache Saturday, December 16, 2006, 8pm - 12:00am Harlem Stride Piano style with tributes James.P.Johnson, Fats Waller and Sidney Bechet. From 10pm an All-Star Band of Swing-Jazz Improvisers have been invited JEAN-BAPTISTE “Little Fats" FRANC - A 22-year-old Stride Pianist whose influences ...

Dave Holland Quintet: Critical Mass

by Joel Roberts
December 5, 2006

Bassist extraordinaire Dave Holland believes that like fine wine, music shouldn't be unbottled before its time. Holland and his highly regarded quintet spent a year and a half honing and retooling the music on their new album until it reached the point he calls “critical mass, where “it has become what it's going to be.

Live Virtual Jam Session at The Bitter End

December 4, 2006

eJamming is set to present the first-ever Live Online Jam Session on December 10, 2006 between musicians onstage at New York City's legendary The Bitter End in Greenwich Village and musicians in Boston, Upstate New York and Los Angeles playing in real time over the Internet. Synchronized by eJamming Studio 1.5 software, musicians in different locations ...

Freda Payne Stars In A Tribute To Ella Fitzgerald at The Iridium Jazz Club Dec. 6-8

December 4, 2006

IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com/ 8:30 & 10:30PM Dec. 6-8 MS. FREDA PAYNE Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald NO 3RD SET FRIDAY FREDA PAYNE STARS IN A TRIBUTE TO ...

Vocalist Audrey Silver Appearing At Sweet Rhythm Tuesday, December 5th sets at 8pm and 9:30pm

December 4, 2006

Vocalist Audrey Silver Appearing At Sweet Rhythm 88 Seventh Ave. South (bet. Grove & Bleecker) 212-255-3626 http://www.sweetrhythmny.com/ Tuesday, December 5th sets at 8pm and 9:30pm Jon Cowherd - Piano John Hart - Guitar Joe Fitzgerald - Bass Anthony Pinciotti - ...

Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar

by Clifford Allen
December 4, 2006

It's been a decade since the last bounty of Ornette recordings. 1995-96 saw releases from his free-funk mélange Prime Time; a robust quartet with pianist Geri Allen and bassist Charnett Moffett; and duets with pianist Joachim Kühn, a German free music architect. Indeed, the past three decades have seen an inordinate amount of change for Coleman's ...