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Chick Corea Trio at Highland Ballroom October 1, 2010
by David Miller
Chick Corea TrioHighline BallroomNew York City, USAOctober 1, 2010 Well, that was unexpected. Imagine a Chick Corea trio show where the pianist is not the centerpiece of the performance. In fact, his piano plays as much rhythm as the bass and drums. A trio of equals. Then you would have some ...
Jambalaya Live at Paddy Reilly's Music Bar on November 9th
New York, NY—Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing live in celebration of their new CD release It's a Jungle Out There on Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 7:00 pm at Paddy Reilly's Music Bar in New York, NY. The Jambalaya Brass Band is a group of seasoned musical pros from a variety of impressive previous musical ...
Pianist/Composer Dan Tepfer Releases Trio Album "Five Pedals Deep" on Sunnyside Records - October 26, 2010
Album features Dan Tepfer (piano), Thomas Morgan (bass) and Ted Poor (drums) CD RELEASE PERFORMANCE @ Jazz Standard October 26, 2010 (7:30 & 9:30pm) In his forthcoming trio release, Five Pedals Deep on Sunnyside Records, wildly inventive pianist Dan Tepfer plumbs the depths of conventional harmony, engaging pop modalities, minimalism, ...
Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University Conversations with Composers: Steve Coleman
As part of its Conversations Series, the Center's renowned faculty will engage leading composer Steve Coleman in a reflection on the role of improvisation in his creative life. Steve Coleman is one of the most influential saxophonists and composers of the last 30 years, as well as an important theorist of the music and its spiritual ...
"Chandler Travis Philharmonic Blows!"
Bandleader Chandler Travis and His Nonet Present a Party of an Album, “Chandler Travis Philharmonic Blows!" Released Oct. 12 on Sonic Trout New York, NY—From TV appearances on “The Tonight Show," “The Midnight Special," and Dick Cavett, to sharing stages with Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello and the late great comic George Carlin, Chandler Travis has had ...
Driving the Poem: Hettie Jones with Dr. Guy's Musiqology
Poetry and jazz is about one+one=one, the spoken word as instrument, its meaning become tone and tempo, another voice in the band. “Driving the Poem" takes its cue from Hettie Jones's first poetry collection, Drive, plus the complementary pulse of the music behind her. Hettie Jones's twenty-three books for children and adults include her memoir of ...
Kenny Davern: Just Four Bars
Readers accustomed to novels may find most jazz biographies only intermittently satisfying. Lives, of course, cannot be arranged into dramatic arcs worthy of Trollope or Faulkner—but, just the same, the chronicle of the life and music of your favorite musician often has all its drama in the beginning: attempts to find a personal style, to become ...
The Beast and Nnenna Freelon Present Freedom Suite, Hosted by 9th Wonder + MP3
The Beast, a hip-hop quartet featuring emcee Pierce Freelon brings multi Grammy nominee jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon into the group for Freedom Suite, a collection of original songs, classic interpretations and interviews reflecting on jazz and hip-hop today. The entire album will be available for free download on October 26th, via The Revivalist, Okayplayer's new jazz ...
Andy Schumm Leads the Way at Chautauqua (Sept. 18, 2010)
If you've been reading this blog even casually, the name Andy Schumm—the hot cornet / piano man from Milwaukee—will not be new to you. And he continues to offer surprises: his fine, ringing lead; his well-chosen tempos; his deep immersion in the repertoire; the ease with which he melds the heroic choruses of the recordings we've ...
Marty Grosz's Bass Motives at Chautauqua (Sept. 18, 2010)
My flippant title is not completely irrelevant. For starters, at jazz clubs and parties and festivals, there are performances ranging from humdrum to spectacular. And—not very often—there are performances that viewers and listeners know they won't ever forget. I take great pride in presenting one such episode: around four minutes long, quietly rocking rather than explosive, ...
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