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Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu Duo: New York, NY, January 24, 2013
by Dan Bilawsky
Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu DuoBlue NoteNew York, NYJanuary 24, 2013 Some musicians settle into a club and simply play a set of music, but that's never the case with Omar Sosa. The pianist treats every performance as a musical séance and an opportunity to bare his soul. It's hard ...
Adam Berenson and Bill Marconi: A Codex of Silent Voices
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist/composer Adam Berenson is a mystery; his Facebook page features nothing about his music-making and, in its photo section, a couple of Jackson Pollock-like abstract paintings along with a Van Gogh-inspired seascape. The song titles on his numerous releases perpetuate the mystery--"Sepulchral Vicissitudes" and “Emotional Idiot," from Contextual (1999),and the title track to The Mystery of ...
Guitarist/Composer Ken Hatfield Celebrates The Genius Of Harlem Renaissance Poet Langston Hughes With "For Langston", An Enthralling Song Cycle Drawn From His Blues-Steeped Verse
To Be Released February 1, 2013, Langston’s Birthday A supremely lyrical guitarist and award-winning composer with a deep love of literature, Ken Hatfield is always on the lookout for texts ripe for musical interpretation. He found an ideal muse in the great American poet Langston Hughes, whose rhythmically agile verse, marked by penetrating observations about love, ...
New John Serry Album, "The Shift," Released
The new album, The Shift (SPCo Records) from pianist/composer John Serry is now released and will be available at CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon MP3, Google Music Store and other online outlets, as well as directly from the artist. John Serry received a Grammy Nomination in 1979 for his arrangement of his composition, “Sabotage," on his debut ...
Josh Maxey's Cycles Of Sound: A Series Of 6 Albums In 12 Months
Cycles of Sound by Josh Maxey will be released on January 31st, 2013. It is the sixth album in a series of 6 recordings in 12 months. The album is a set of live music featuring songs from the previous five albums in the series. There are nine tracks, eight original songs plus Robert Johnson's Hellhound ...
Bilal "A Love Surreal" CD Release, Tuesday, February 12 At Highline Ballroom
BILAL “A Love Surreal" CD Release Produced By Jill Newman Productions Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Highline Ballroom, 431 W.16 Street, NYC, (212) 414-5994 Showtime @ 9:00 PM, Doors open @ 7:00 PM Tickets $25 in advance, $30 day of show BIO Bilal Oliver was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. Coming from what he describes as ...
Etana Delivers Commanding Performance At Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival And Will Shoot New Video Off Her Long Awaited Album Better Tomorrow Out February 26
Etana shined on the second night of the annual Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival held at Greenfield Stadium in Trelawny on Friday, January 25. According to the Jamaica Gleaner the “graceful Etana" delivered a “commanding performance" to the jam-packed audience inside the 25,000 capacity venue. The reggae soulstress joined the long list of star-studded names - ...
Award-winning "Tapestry Rewoven" Returns To NYC For 1 Night, Tuesday, February 26th At 7pm
Laurie Krauz and the Daryl Kojak Octet return to where it all began for one very special performance on Tuesday, February 26th at 7pm at the Metropolitan Room. “Tapestry Rewoven is a thrilling jazz, blues and R&B-infused re-imagining of the Carole King classic, “Tapestry." Heralded as “brilliant," “genius" and “a hurricane of entertainment," the tribute show ...
Sara Serpa: A Musical Journey
by Hrayr Attarian
Vocalist and composer Sara Serpa is one of the most original and innovative musicians to emerge since the turn of the century. She has already made an indelible mark on the modern music scene in the span of a mere four years. Her unique style of vocalese allows her to utilize the full range of her ...
Wayne Shorter Quartet: Without a Net
by John Kelman
Since convening a new quartet for the 2001 tour that resulted in Footprints Live! (Verve, 2002), soon-to-be-octogenarian saxophonist Wayne Shorter has found himself in the company of a group that's not just turned out to be, hands-down, his most exciting and exploratory acoustic ensemble in a career well into its sixth decade, but now, a dozen ...
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