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Introducing Guitarist/Composer Pawel Ignatowicz - CD "Here And Now" - Release Date: Dec. 1st

September 24, 2017

A Fresh and Eclectic New Sound Mixed By Multi-Grammy Winning Dave Darlington! Darlington contributed to work by Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Brian Lynch and Eddie Palmieri. Here and Now (Mother of Invention Records) expresses Pawel's influence from acoustic, electric, drum and bass, Latin, Indian and minimal music. This exciting new CD features Pawel Ignatowicz on both ...

The Recorder - An Ancient Instrument With An Exciting New Sound! Joel Levine Releases "The Whistleblower" on September 25, 2017

September 22, 2017

From Originals to George Duke to Handel- Levine Debuts On New Lenny White Label Composer Joel Levine speaks a unique voice with the recorder with his debut release The Whistleblower on the Iyouwe label. The 13 song disc, Levine's first as a solo artist, finds the Toronto based recordist joined by singers and instrumentalists including legendary ...

Mike Stern: What A Trip

by Jim Worsley
September 20, 2017

"I never trip. I just don't. But then, it just happened." This is how Mike Stern began his story as he explained to my wife and I how it happened. If you somehow missed it, “it" refers to the tumble Stern took in July of 2016. This accidental fall resulting in both shoulders being ...

Gary Clark, Jr. and Jimmie Vaughan at the Iridium

by Mike Perciaccante
September 16, 2017

Gary Clark, Jr. and Jimmie Vaughan The Iridium New York, NY September 8, 2017 Speakeasy is a public television series that pairs Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famers, Grammy Award winners, Tony Award winners and iconic musicians with an interviewer of their choice. The show features conversations between the stars and ...

Live From The New Stone School: Brandon Ross, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Laswell & Susie Ibarra

by Martin Longley
September 14, 2017

Phantom Station The Stone at The New School June 17, 2017 The Stone is pulling its shutters down for the last time, come the close of 2017. John Zorn's excellent Alphabet City corner venue has spent 12 years being an uncompromising centre for questioning music, but its mastermind has now ...

Jazz at the Nash Volume 2: Roots in AZ

by Dave Kaufman
September 14, 2017

This is the second in a series of In Pictures articles on The Nash, a jazz club and educational institution that is at the heart of the Phoenix jazz universe. This article celebrates visiting musicians who have roots in Arizona. Tenor titan Tony Malaby, a native of Tucson, brought his outstanding group Paloma Recio ...

Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In And Out Of Jazz

by Mark Corroto
September 13, 2017

Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In And Out Of Jazz Fred Hersch 307 Pages ISBN: #9781101904343 Crown Archetype Press 2017 Disclaimer #1: Like the author, I harbor a blood pathogen (he HIV, me Leukemia) that is intent on killing me. Disclaimer #2: Being of similar ...

Jeff "Tain" Watts' Elvin Jones Alumni Band at Jazz Standard

by Adrien H. Tillmann
September 13, 2017

Bill Brovold, Jamie Saft: Serenity Knolls

by Andrea Murgia
September 11, 2017

Noto ai più come fenomenale organista e pianista della scena newyorchese più sperimentale nei progetti di John Zorn e Joe Morris, Jamie Saft è in realtà anche un chitarrista (e slidista) che non ti aspetti. Cresciuto a pane, Bob Dylan e Paul Bley, Saft non è nuovo a puntate lontano dagli ottantotto tasti, basti pensare a ...

2017 Charlie Parker Jazz Festival

by Richard Conde
September 10, 2017

The City Parks Foundation kicked off its 25th annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Wednesday August 23, 2017 at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. On Thursday August 24th and Friday August 25th the festival continued its musical celebration uptown in Harlem at Marcus Garvey Park. It featured the work of Jason Samuels Smith's “Chasing ...