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News: Performance / Tour

Avram Fefer / Michael Bisio / Igal Foni at Sixth Street Garden (NYC) on May 21at 5pm

May 18, 2011

Thanks to everyone who made the CD release show such an amazing experience last week. Please join us this Saturday for the last local show before a two week tour in Europe—a free show in a local community garden. We will perform original compositions and improvisations in a beautiful outdoor setting. The Avram Fefer Trio is ...

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Article: Shrinktunes

Fred Hersch's "My Coma Dreams" World Premiere

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
May 16, 2011

There's much to say about the extraordinary My Coma Dreams, the new multimedia piece that describes the medically induced coma experienced by pianist/composer Fred Hersch in 2008. But three days after its world premiere at Montclair State University's Kasser Theater, I'm still looking for the right words to describe it. It seems that my usual critic's ...

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Article: Book Review

Experimentalism Otherwise

by Ian Patterson
May 15, 2011

Experimentalism OtherwiseBenjamin Piekut 283 pagesISBN: 978-0-520-26850-0University California Press2011 The historical scope of Benjamin Piekut's study of avowedly experimentalist music in Experimentalism Otherwise is confined to what Peikut tantalizingly describes as “four disastrous confrontations within the world of New York experimentalism in 1964." Nevertheless, ...

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Article: Live Review

Saxophone Summit: New York, April 20, 2011

by Ryan Lippell
May 14, 2011

Saxophone SummitJazz Standard, Impulse! Nights--Africa/BrassNew York, NYApril 20, 2011 For Dave Liebman, it was the orange spines. For others, it was the laminated, emblematic covers with gatefolds. For everyone, Impulse! was the record label that best committed to vinyl the golden age of jazz: a fertile crescent between the late ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Ran Blake Celebrates New CD with Concert at Cobi's Place (NYC)

May 14, 2011

"Imagine the world's most profound cocktail pianist—wistful, yet utterly unsappy and given to quiet storms of weirdness—and you'll get a good idea of Ran Blake's sound. Tonight the 76-year-old stops by an off-the-beaten-path midtown venue to celebrate a new disc, Grey December—Live in Rome, and to honor the late, great Abbey Lincoln." —Time Out New York ...

News: Event

Members of Los Mua Equitos de Matanzas and Michel Herrera from Cuba to Perform at Fundraiser May 18 Benefiting the Chico O'Farrill School of Jazz

May 14, 2011

NEW YORK—The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance announced today that members of Cuba's legendary Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, as well as Cuban saxophonist Michel Herrera, will perform at its fundraiser benefiting the Chico O'Farrill School of Jazz (COSJ) to be held Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City from 6-9PM. Los Muñequitos ...

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Article: Live Review

Samba Jazz & The Music of Jobim: New York, NY, April 28, 2011

by Ernest Barteldes
May 13, 2011

Samba Jazz & The Music of Antonio Carlos JobimDizzy's Club Coca-ColaNew York, NYApril 28, 2011 The music of Antonio Carlos Jobim was at the center of this five-day (April 28-May 3) residency featuring Duduka Da Fonseca (drums), Helio Alves (piano), Claudio Roditi (trumpet), Toninho Horta (electric and acoustic guitars, vocals), George ...

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News: Interview

Singer/songwriter Frank McComb revives early '70s heyday of soul, R&B, and jazz fusion on new CD

May 13, 2011

What to singer/songwriter Frank McComb is A New Beginning is actually a fond trip back for music buffs, especially those who lived through the early '70s heyday of soul and R&B. On A New Beginning, McComb echoes the incandescent urban pop of Stevie Wonder, the rhythmic jazz of George Benson, and the pulsating fusion of Herbie ...

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News: Recording

Meredith Monk "Song of Ascension"

May 12, 2011

Meredith Monk Songs of Ascension Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble Todd Reynolds String Quartet M6 Voices Montclair State University Singers “Songs of Ascension" is a major new recording from composer Meredith Monk and her vocal ensemble. Written in 2008, it is conceived as a continuous composition, a departure from Monk's ...

News: Performance / Tour

Shane Endsley Celebrates The Release of His New Recording At Joe's Pub

May 12, 2011

Trumpeter/Composer Shane Endsley Celebrates The Release of His New Recording Shane Endsley and The Music Band—Then The Other At Joe's Pub on June 1 @ 7:30 PM! Featuring Shane Endsley (trumpet, compositions), Matt Brewer (bass), Ted Poor (drums), and special guest Gerald Clayton (piano) “What's most remarkable about the quartet's latest, Then the Other, is its ...