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Article: Live Review

McCoy Tyner Quartet / Stanley Clarke Quartet Featuring Hiromi

by Ernest Barteldes
July 1, 2010

McCoy Tyner Quarter / Stanley Clarke Band Featuring Hiromi CareFusion Jazz Festival, Central Park Summerstage New York, NY June 23, 2010 Contrary to what had been announced, pianist McCoy Tyner's all-star Quartet took to the stage with a very syncopated number, led by tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane. Bassist Esperanza ...

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Article: Live Review

Undead Jazz Festival: Kenny's Castaways Edition

by Daniel Lehner
June 30, 2010

Every zombie film fan knows that being bitten by a creature of the night is a fate worse than death. The only cure is to have a member of your party load up a shotgun and take you out before you turn into a limping, brain-hungry shell of a person. So giving an event a header ...

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News: Event

Great Women in Music Festival Marks Its 10th Anniversary This October in NYC

June 29, 2010

Fall 2010 Marks the 10th Anniversary for New York City's Great Women in Music Festival This October Will Make the 10th Installment of the Great Women in Music Festival, a Month Long Celebration of Women in Music Powered by Media Partner WRKS 98.7 KISS FM New York, NY -- This fall will mark the 10th anniversary ...

News: Music Industry

Cabaret: Precarious but Resilient

June 28, 2010

Stability is a word not often used to describe New York City's fragile cabaret world, where only a few can make a full-time living, and the clubs themselves ride an economic seesaw from week to week. But because Manhattan's three major supper clubs -- the Caf Carlyle, the Oak Room and Feinstein's at Loews Regency -- ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Manhattan Jazz

June 27, 2010

J. D. ALLEN QUARTET (Tuesday through Thursday) The tenor saxophonist J. D. Allen with Gregg August on bass, Rudy Royston on drums, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, and a more aggressive drummer, Rodney Green. (Through July 4.) At 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard 178 Seventh ...

News: Radio

Moja Radio/Weekly Features ( June 28 - July 4, 2010)

June 27, 2010

This Monday, June 28th, we'll present another “Happy Birthday" edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time the focus is on the great bassist, composer, Grammy-winner and MOJA Master, STANLEY CLARKE. You'll hear of his career beginnings growing up in Philadelphia, his work with the seminal fusion supergroup Return To ...

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News: Festival

Honoring Heroes of Jazz, with Words, Silence and Improvisation

June 26, 2010

Jazz has a long tradition of heroism, both in practice and reception, in the acts of musicians and how they are understood. For the last few generations, hard-core jazz audiences have spent a lot of time worrying that the academic might be riding up on the intuitive, and that the sense of heroism might be slipping ...

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Article: Live Review

Mary McBride at Housing Works, June 16 2010

by Ernest Barteldes
June 26, 2010

Mary McBride Housing Works June 16, 2010 New York, NY On her New York stop of the promotional tour for her new release The Way Home, soul-folk singer-songwriter Mary McBride hit the stage of lower Manhattan's Housing Works backed by a solid power trio that at once made you ...

News: Performance / Tour

Gene Ess - Modes of Limited Transcendence - Concert - June 25

June 25, 2010

Award winning guitarist Gene Ess will perform with his stellar quartet on June 25th. The group will feature Gene's original compositions from his Modes of Limited Transcendence album. This album received a prestigious award from SESAC on March, 2010 for “outstanding jazz performance". Accompanying Gene Ess on guitar is Greg Tardy on saxophone, Thomson Kneeland on ...

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News: Event

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University & American Composers Orchestra Present First-Ever Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute

June 25, 2010

July 20-24, 2010 34 jazz composers ranging in age from 17 to 67 years old converge on the Columbia University Campus to explore writing for the symphony orchestra Culminates with two public concerts: Wet Ink Friday, July 23, 2010 at 8:00pm American Composers Orchestra Saturday, July 24, 2010 ...