Results for "New York City"

Jerome Sabbagh Trio featuring Billy Drummond at Smalls on August 12th

August 4, 2010

Jerome Sabbagh Trio—Smalls—New York Thursday, August 12th @ 9:30 PM Jerome Sabbagh: saxophone Joe Martin: bass Billy Drummond: drums About Jerome Sabbagh Saxophonist and composer Jerome Sabbagh was born in Paris, France and moved to the States at the age of 20. After attending Berklee College of Music in Boston on scholarship for two ...

Download Two Free MP3 Tracks from Pianist Coto Pincheira

August 3, 2010

An AAJ exclusive! Familiarize yourself with pianist Coto Pincheira's music by downloading two free MP3s from his latest release The Sonido Moderno Project. Coto Pincheira Moves to New York! Latin jazz pianist Coto Pincheira has relocated to Brooklyn, NY after living and recording in the Bay Area for the last several years. “It has been and ...

Eddie Lang Day in Philadelphia: October 25, 2010

August 2, 2010

Red Norvo's Spotlight Band on Film

August 1, 2010

The distinguished jazz film scholar Mark Cantor offers another cinematic mystery: “In Back Beats and Rim Shots, Warren Vache and Johnny Blowers discuss a band put together by Red Norvo, under the sponsorship of Coca Cola, for an overseas tour during World War II. The tour never happened, but before the band broke up a film ...

Annual Bix Beiderbecke Sunnyside Memorial

July 31, 2010

Saturday, August 7th, 4:00PM--7:00PM on 46th Street at Queens Blvd. Don't Miss the 10th Annual Bix Beiderbecke Sunnyside Memorial Jazz Concert. The Largest, Free, Outdoor Jazz Concert in western Queens! A night of Swing & Dixieland music. Annual concert to honor jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke. (There is a banner of him hanging at the ...

Suresh Singaratnam: Lost In New York

by Bruce Lindsay
July 30, 2010

Born in Zambia but brought up in Toronto, Canada, trumpeter Suresh Singaratnam is formally trained in both jazz and classical music, latterly at the Manhattan School of Music. Lost In New York is an album of original compositions that chronicles the young musician's early years in the city. It's a mix of experiences and emotions that ...

Los Cenzontles at Americas Society, July 21 2010

by Ernest Barteldes
July 30, 2010

Los CenzontlesAmericas SocietyNew York, NYWednesday, July 21, 2010 The California-based 8-piece ensemble came to the crowded Upper East Side room with a selection of contemporary-inflected traditional Mexican music, kicking off with “Hermosissimo Lucero," an a capella number in two voices. That was followed by an original number entitles “Soy Mexico Americano," ...

Ellery Eskelin / John Hebert / Devin Gray at the Tea Lounge on July 30th

July 28, 2010

Friday July 30th Sets at 9.30 and 10.30PM Live at the TEA LOUNGE in Brooklyn NYC Ellery Eskelin--tenor sax John Hebert--bass Devin Gray--drums/compositions Please join us as we explore the worlds of new and old sounds... 837 Union Street Brooklyn, NY (718) 789-2762 Suggested $5 Entrance tealoungeny.com Q train ...

Remembering Karl Watt

July 28, 2010

One of the many delights of having a blog is meeting people--not always in person--who enrich your life with their presence, their music, their stories. One such person is banjo player Candace Brown, who's a member of Chris Tyle's Silver Leaf Jazz Band. I had posted a clip of that band in full flower, playing the ...

BT3 Brings Hard Jazz/Funk Grooves & Guitar Pyrotechnics to the Iridium Jazz Club - Friday, August 13 @ 11:30PM as Part of Their Emerging Artist Series

July 27, 2010

From a lifetime of breaking boundaries, leading an award-winning, DC-based hip-hop/fusion band, Miscellaneous Flux, and collaborating with numerous musical pioneers (Vernon Reid, Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber, and DJ Logic), guitarist Ben Tyree, pushes forward with his own ground-breaking, improvisational, sci-fi/jazz/funk trio project, BT3. On Friday, August 13 @ 11:30pm, Tyree will present BT3 at the ...