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Greenleaf Music Relaunch Subscription Series
Starting with the release of Dave Douglas & Keystone, Spark Of Being [3-CD], Greenleaf Music is also launching a revamped version of our successful Subscriber Series. Many thanks to our Subscriber community for the critical feedback which helped craft many of these changes. While most if not all of the original features remain (the 20-30% store ...
MMW Live from Your Couch!
WATCH MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD LIVE...FROM YOUR COUCH! THIRD ANNUAL CAMP MMW AUGUST 1-6 Camp MMW applications are due June 21 Medeski Martin & Wood in association with Nevessa Production are proud to announce two very special live webcasts on June 9 & 10, 2010 at ...
Marathon of Music from Behind the Iron Curtain
Since Symphony Space inaugurated its Wall to Wall marathons with a salute to Bach in 1978, the series has usually focused on one composers works presented in a variety of ways. But occasionally these popular free events have embraced broader themes, like the Baroque era, folk music or opera. Wall to Wall Behind the Wall, ...
Pat Metheny: One Man's Band
by Tom Greenland
In plays such as Medea and Alcestis, the ancient Greek tragedian Euripides was roundly criticized, even parodied, for his use of an artificial plot device or deus ex machina ("god from the machine"), because it violated narrative logic and challenged the audience's suspension of disbelief. Guitarist Pat Metheny, never one to shy away from wrathful gods, ...
W. Eugene Smith and the Jazz Loft Project
From 1957 to 1965, W. Eugene Smith took thousands of photographs and recorded thousands of hours of audio in his loft building, capturing the legendary musicians of the day. Smith exposed 1,447 rolls of film at his loft, making roughly 40,000 pictures, the largest body of work in his career, photographing the nocturnal jazz scene as ...
Tribute for Percussionist Francisco Aguabella
A concert Saturday in New York was dedicated to the memory of Afro-Cuban percussionist Francisco Aguabella, who died earlier this month in Los Angeles. “They need him Up There to keep the rumba going," Papo Pepn told the New York Daily News in advance of Saturday's “The Conga Kings" concert at New York University's Skirball Center ...
Lisle Atkinson's Neo Bass Ensemble "A Bass Extravaganza," All-Star Bass Line-up @ Symphony Space on June 11th
In it's fifth consecutive year at Symphony Space, Karlisle Pro 1 presents Lisle Atkinson's NEO BASS Ensemble, a unique multi-bass ensemble that features the bass as “lead" instrument, putting the full range of the double bass on display: from lead instrument, harmonic front line, solo and rhythm section for a concert that's history in the making! ...
New York Kinda Jazz
TED NASH QUINTET (Wednesday and Thursday) The saxophonist Ted Nash, a prominent member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, with Frank Kimbrough on piano, Ray Drummond on bass and Willie Jones III on drums. Each night of the run will feature a guest trumpeter, starting with Brian Lynch on Wednesday (which ...
MOJA Radio/Weekly Features: May 17-23, 2010
This Monday, May 17th, we'll present another edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time the focus is on one of the great young composers &bandleaders in jazz today, the multi-Grammy nominated vibraphonist, STEFON HARRIS. You'll hear the story of and the music by a great player and intelligent visionary ...
Rosa Rio, Organist from Silent Films to Soap Operas, Dies at 107
On Oct. 6, 1927, the day “The Jazz Singer" splashed noisily across American movie screens, Rosa Rio broke down and wept. Al Jolson was talking, and the very sound of him, she knew, would put her out of business. But Miss Rio's fears went unrealized, and for the next eight decades--until her final performance, last year ...
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
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801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
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