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Article: Rediscovery

John Abercrombie: Characters

Read "John Abercrombie: Characters" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

John Abercrombie CharactersECM Records1978 Guitarist John Abercrombie's emergence as a guitarist of singularity seems, in retrospect to have happened very quickly. A band member in the horn-driven jazz-rock band Dreams alongside drummer Billy Cobham and the Brecker Brothers, as well as stints with fusion keyboardist Barry Miles, saxophonist Gato Barbieri and ...

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News: Interview

Spike Wilner On Playing For Listeners

Spike Wilner On Playing For Listeners

Spike Wilner is a pianist who operates two jazz clubs in New York City with his partners Chris Borden and Lee Kostrinsky. Smalls and Mezzrow are within a short walk of one another in Greenwich Village. They present familiar artists like Lew Tabackin, Frank Lacy, Pete Malinverni, Johnny O'Neal and Wilner himself, as well as those ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Ginny's Supper Club - April - Marc Cary, Winard Harper & More!

Ginny's Supper Club - April - Marc Cary, Winard Harper & More!

Marc Cary - Album Release Party! Winard Harper, Damien Sneed, Michael Mwenso, Fela! & More! Ginny's Supper Club at Red Rooster - Harlem 310 Lenox Ave. (Between 125th & 126th) New York, NY 10027 Phone: 212-421-3821 Thursday, March 26 DUANE EUBANKS QUINTET 7:30PM & ...

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Article: Live Review

ZZ Top with special guests the Ben Miller Band at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury

Read "ZZ Top with special guests the Ben Miller Band at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury" reviewed by Mike Perciaccante

by Mike Perciaccante

ZZ Top with special guests the Ben Miller Band NYCB Theatre at Westbury Westbury, NY March 15, 2015 Forty-plus years is a long time for anything. For a rock band it's an eternity. For ZZ Top, the Little Ol' Band From Texas, the past forty-some-odd years have been ...

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Article: Album Review

Karl Latham / Ryan Carniaux / Mark Egan: Constellations

Read "Constellations" reviewed by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton

by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton

If you happened to be in vitro fed Isao Tomita during your pre-personage, you're going to recognise Karl Latham's Constellations electronica subliminally--regardless any jazz/Bjork connections. 70's Japanese synth/horn, space music trembling has that tendency to unhinge a certain primeval magic. Space music in the 21st Century has less artefacts than the 70s first steppers, and more ...

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Article: Album Review

Tomoko Omura: Roots

Read "Roots" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

The roots of the title of violinist Tomoko Omura's second CD as leader refer to traditional and popular melodies familiar to several generations of Japanese. But if the melodies of Omura's childhood have left an indelible stamp on her musical DNA, so too has the past decade spent in America absorbing the roots of jazz. It's ...

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News: Recording

Motema Music Proudly Announces The Release Of Joe Locke's Most Personal & Emotive Work To Date, "Love Is A Pendulum"

Motema Music Proudly Announces The Release Of Joe Locke's Most Personal & Emotive Work To Date, "Love Is A Pendulum"

Available May 26, 2015 Featuring Joe Locke (compositions, vibes), Robert Rodriguez (piano), Ricardo Rodriguez (bass), Terreon Gully (co-­producer, drums) With Special Guests Rosario Giuliani, Donny McCaslin (saxophones), Paul Bollenback (guitar), Victor Provost (steel pan) and Theo Bleckmann (voice) Joe Locke is a musician's musician, an artist for the ages, a man who has been gracing stages ...

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Article: Album Review

Dave Bass: NYC Sessions

Read "NYC Sessions" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Life has a funny way of bringing us back to what we love. Need proof? Just look at Dave Bass. After starting on a musical path in Cincinnati, heading to Berklee for a spell, studying with George Russell and Madame Margaret Chaloff, touring with vocalist Brenda Lee, and setting up shop in the Bay Area, where ...

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Article: Album Review

Matthew Shipp: I've Been To Many Places

Read "I've Been To Many Places" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

In 2013 pianist Matthew Shipp, tongue firmly-in-cheek, issued Greatest Hits, which sampled his Thirsty Ear catalogue. With I've Been To Many Places, his 9th solo album, he takes a different approach to revisiting his back pages, by reprising standards and favorites from previous releases albeit this time in an unaccompanied rendition. These sit alongside a selection ...

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News: Trends

The United Sates Of Events: America's Top Concert Going Cities By Genre

The United Sates Of Events: America's Top Concert Going Cities By Genre

Ticketing and event platform Eventbrite has released a list of America’s top event-going cities and the United States of Events, a visualization of the event-going trends in America's largest 25 cities. The company leveraged its platform of millions of events to zoom in on attendance themes. Overall Music Ticket Sales 1. Austin2. San Francisco3. ...


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