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Jazz Comes to Murray Hill Via Venetian Restaurant
Chic Venetian restaurant and lounge Zorzi located in Murray Hill (1 East 35th Street) will begin offering jazz on Saturday evenings from 8pm - 11:30pm in their main dining room. The weekly series, coordinated by Charles Carlini of In Touch Entertainment, begins in earnest on June 26 with the Grant Stewart Trio. For reservations or info, ...
Gil Scott-Heron Video: "I'm New Here"
Check out Gil Scott-Herons video for the title track to his album, Im New Here. Its a deliberately simple take on a sparse acoustic song, capturing him live in the studio with subtle background projections of his Harlem neighborhood. Herons first album in more than a decade, ...
Mark Feldman: Taking an Eclectic Path
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Violinist Mark Feldman started out in Chicago playing classical music and bar gigs before moving on to the Nashville scene. He emerged in New York's “downtown" circle with the likes of Arcado String Trio, trumpeter Dave Douglas, and composer-saxophonist John Zorn. His expressive, classically tinged technique was also sought for studio work with pop acts and ...
The Music of Simon & Garfunkel Celebrated at Central Park Summerstage, June 8, 2010
by Ernest Barteldes
The Music of Simon & Garfunkel Central Park Summerstage New York, NY June 8, 2010 On a balmy spring night in Central Park, Art Garfunkel took to the stage after a brief introduction by Mayor Mike Bloomberg. He gave a brief speech where he mentioned that ...
Pipe Organ Returns to Alice Tully Hall
Skepticism stirred when Lincoln Center spirited the pipe organ out of Alice Tully Hall before the building's renovation in 2006, promising its eventual return. The skepticism only grew when the renovated hall reopened in early 2009 with no sign of the organ. But Lincoln Center promised all along, and now it has delivered. The 19-ton instrument, ...
A Movable Feast of a Festival
The best way to fight a pervasive assumption is to pretend it doesn't exist. The organizers of the first Undead Jazzfest, which ran Saturday and Sunday night at three clubs in the center of the West Village. Le Poisson Rouge, Sullivan Hall, and Kenny's Castaways are not necessarily hostile to the idea that jazz audiences like ...
Playing in the Pits
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play in the orchestra pit for a West End musical? Christopher Fish, the cellist who plays in Oliver, has been playing in West End shows for nine years. He's played in 6 shows back to back. You'll find his name on the CDs of the cast ...
Jose Conde Band at Central Park Summerstage, June 6, 2010
by Ernest Barteldes
Jose Conde Central Park Summerstage New York, New YorkJune 6, 2010 On his new musical project, Brooklyn-based Jose Conde clearly wanted to break from his salsa roots, presenting instead a set of newly written material in which funk and rock are carefully blended with Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz sensibilities. That ...
Jeff Beck's Scorching Les Paul Tribute Show
Over 100 minutes and 27 songs, in his June 8th show at the New York jazz club Iridium, Jeff Beck did not play a single classic-rock heavy-blues or fusion-workout number from his own long catalog of records. No “Freeway Jam," “Blue Wind" or “Beck's Bolero," not even his signature immolation of the Beatles' “A Day in ...
2010 Tony Awards: The Winners
And the winners are: PLAY “Red" Author: John Logan Producers: Arielle Tepper Madover, Stephanie P. McClelland, Matthew Byam Shaw, Neal Street, Fox Theatricals, Ruth Hendel/Barbara Whitman, Philip Hagemann/Murray Rosenthal, The Donmar Warehouse MUSICAL “Memphis" Producers: Junkyard Dog Productions, Barbara and Buddy Freitag, Marleen and Kenny Alhadeff, ...
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
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Monktober continues with covers from Abbey Lincoln, Art...
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