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Vision Festival XI, Angel Orensanz Foundation For The Arts, NYC - Day Six, 18 June 2006
by John Sharpe
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Afternoon | Day 5 Evening | Day 6 The Vision Festival is an artist-organized and run event which depends on a small but dedicated staff augmented by volunteers and well-wishers. It differs from other jazz festivals in its inclusivity, representing a ...
Jazz on the West Coast: The Lighthouse
by Tom Greenland
Jazz On The West Coast: The Lighthouse Rose King Productions 2006 Jazz on the West Coast: The Lighthouse is a time capsule/oral history of the legendary Southern California venue active throughout the '50s. A collaboration between impresario John Levine and bassist/musical director Howard Rumsey, the Hermosa Beach club became the ...
Valery Ponomarev: Beyond The Obvious
by Ken Franckling
Beyond The Obvious is ex-Jazz Messenger Valery Ponomarev's seventh CD as a leader for Reservoir. His Means of Identification, recorded in 1985, was the label's debut release. Beyond The Obvious stands apart from the six prior (all quintet) sessions in terms of its instrumental format. It's out at a time when the Russian-born trumpeter is in ...
WeiSheng Lin: Gone with the Wind
by Donald Elfman
What a lovely, unpretentious jazz album this is! Gone with the Wind gathers a true fusion of Eastern and Western players, and yet there's nothing about the playing or tunes that drags that in the open. It features a beautiful handful of jazz standards, an original by the leader, and an arrangement of a Chinese pop ...
Jim Tomlinson / Stacey Kent: The Lyric
by Andrew Velez
Brimming with pop and jazz standards, The Lyric (winner of the BBC's 2006 Jazz Album of the Year award) launches with Brit tenor sax man Jim Tomlinson and trio's warm breezy take on “Manha de Carnival, on which pianist David Newton, bassist Dave Chamberlain and drummer Matt Skelton provide very tasty punctuation. Easy bossa is a ...
JJA Jazz Matters, NYC, 11/20 -- Publicists, Clients, Journalists: Relationships (6- 8 p.m. Wednesday November 20, New School Jazz fifth floor performance )
"Publicists, Clients, Journalists: Relationships" will be discussed by leading jazz p.r.. professionals and the people they seek to address on Wednesday, November 20, 6 to 8 p.m., at the New School Jazz fifth floor performance space, 55 W. 13th St., NYC, in the third monthly “Jazz Matters" panel/forum of fall '06, co-produced by New School Jazz ...
MCG Jazz: A Mighty Non-Profit With a Mission
by Ken Dryden
MCG Jazz evolved from Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, a non-profit arts program started in 1968 by Bill Strickland. Beginning with no more than a single ceramic art wheel and a radio playing jazz in the background, the program was initially housed in the basement of a row home in the Manchester section of Pittsburgh, targeting inner-city high ...
Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana: :FiveNights:
by Elliott Simon
If cutting-edge music presages the course that society will take, then this release from Trio Tarana indicates that at some point we will be heading down the right path. Percussionist Ravish Momin leads a trio of musicians with diverse ethnic backgrounds with the stated purpose “of sharing their unique Asian-American musical concept and identity with different ...
Bob Kindred: Live at Cafe Loup
by Donald Elfman
Classical clarinetist Richard Stoltzman once said, “...I wish I could play Mozart like Bob Kindred plays jazz, referring to his simplicity of tone, directness and emotional truth--all of which can be heard at the weekly brunch at New York's Café Loup which this engaging live disc documents. Kindred got his chops playing with organists Shirley Scott ...
Dekel Bor Trio featuring Francois Moutin & Marcus Gilmore tonight at LOUIS
The Dekel Bor Trio will be performing tonight Thurs. Nov. 9th at Louis 649 E9th st. corner of Ave. C 9pm-12am No cover Dekel Bor - Guitars Francois Moutin - Bass Marcus Gilmore - Drums “Dekel Bor's evocative live guitar playing ... a fresh taste in music"--John Rockwell, ...
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