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Martin Wind Quartet - Music Of Bill Evans - Kitano - May 30-31
Martin Wind Quartet featuring Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana “Turn Out The Stars - Music written or inspired by Bill Evans" CD Release Date - May 20 Jazz at Kitano - May 30-31 Come celebrate the release of the Martin Wind Quartet's latest masterpiece at The Kitano (NYC) on May 30-31. This will be the New ...
Nicky Schrire: On Songs, Spaces And Places
by Dan Bilawsky
What defines power? That's a tough question to answer in general, and an even harder one to figure out when it comes to the world of music. For in music, a whisper may carry greater weight than a roar, an honest gesture can outdo a demonstration of brute strength and technique, and a direct message to ...
Tyler Blanton: Gotham
by Dan McClenaghan
New York City is the Mecca for musicians, jazz and otherwise. Tributes to the metropolis meet with varying degrees of success. Guitarist/vocalist Lou Reed captured the mood and tone of the big city with his finest recorded outing, New York (Sire Records, 1989). Saxophonist Bob Belden, via his quintet called “Animation," gave the town a menacing ...
Jazz Musician Database Retooled and Relaunched at All About Jazz
All About Jazz's musician section, home to nearly 58,000 profiles, was redesigned for improved navigation and to shine a more intense spotlight on features including musician tracking, musician discovery, crowdfunding support, teaching credentials, and a musician's SoundCloud player and Bandcamp player. “A musician's profile is center to their activities at All About Jazz and is fully ...
Leslie Pintchik: In the Nature of Things
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Leslie Pintchik takes advantage her her New York home base on her recordings by enlisting some of the city's most innovative musicians to help her share her vision. On previous three CD releases Pintchik has sculpted a seductive sound that combines the cerebral with engaging and beautiful, much in the mode of piano legend Herbie ...
Jeff Ballard Trio: Time's Tales
by Glenn Astarita
World-class drummer Jeff Ballard (Chick Corea's New Trio, Brad Mehldau Trio) goes above and beyond the call of duty on his first album as a leader. Celebrated for his modern jazz drumming, spanning bop and the outside spectrum, he expands his wares on this eventful trio release by flawlessly engineering a consortium of high-spirited pieces. With ...
7th Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival Taking Place June 8 & 15 In The Urban Meadow - Red Hook, Brooklyn
The 7th annual Red Hook Jazz Festival will take place once again in Brooklyn's Urban Meadow on two consecutive Sundays, June 8 and 15, 2014 from 1-6 PM. As part of its continuing grassroots tradition, the RHJF is a 100% volunteer-run event that receives no major corporate sponsorship beyond in-kind donations from local businesses, nor any ...
Joel Harrison & Anupam Shobhakar Multiplicity: Leave the Door Open
by John Kelman
If but a single word must describe guitarist/composer Joel Harrison it's restless; one look at his discography, from his “breakthrough" Free Country (ACT, 2003) to the 19-piece big band of Infinite Possibility (Sunnyside, 2013) and it's clear that this Guggenheim Fellowship Award winner isn't content in any one place for long. Leave the Door Open may ...
Dan Weiss: Fourteen
by Dan Bilawsky
While the ear essentially functions the same way for everybody, all people don't process sound in the same fashion. Experiences shape the way each and every person takes in what they hear. Some tend to focus in on a single sound, others key in on conversational concepts, and then there are those who are big picture ...
Nicky Schrire: To The Spring
by Bruce Lindsay
It's brief--barely 30 minutes long--and released only in digital form, but To The Spring packs plenty into its allotted time span. This is the third release from singer and songwriter Nicky Schrire. It's another excellent release, her voice framed by the sparse but sympathetic piano and bass of Fabian Almazan and Desmond White. Schrire's ...
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