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King Britt Interview
It may be hard to believe but the legendary Philadelphia DJ/Producer King Britt has been in the music game for twenty years now. Beginning his career in 1990 as E-Culture on the Strictly Rhythm label, Britt quickly became the DJ for the Grammy winning hip-hop group Digable Planets. Segueing into production work, hes remixed tracks for ...
Kenny Davern, Remembered
First, some comedy. The last time I saw Kenny Davern in action was at Sunnie Sutton's 2006 Rocky Mountain Jazz Party--only a few months before his death. At the dinner for musicians and friends the night before the party started, Kenny took a napkin off one of the tables, draped it over his arm, and transformed ...
AllAboutJazz-New York May 2010 Issue Now Available!
Lest one needs a reminder of the globalization of the world in general and music in particular, last month's eruption of a volcano under Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier was a particularly effective one. Lost in all the news reports of stranded travelers on both sides of the Atlantic were the many musicians whose tour plans were disrupted ...
BT3 Returns with Hard Jazz/Funk Grooves & Guitar Pyrotechnics to Fat Baby -- Wednesday, May 19th @ 8PM
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 Wednesday, May 19th at 8pm, Tyree will present BT3 at Fat ...
Dave Holland Quintet at Birdland, April 20, 2010
by David Miller
Dave Holland QuintetBirdlandNew York, NYApril 20, 2010The Dave Holland Quintet (DHQ) is one of those rarest of things in jazz--a working group. These days, due to a number of factors (cough$$cough), jazz musicians are spread very thin in terms of the number of projects they participate in. They jump fluidly from ...
Jazz Dates in New York City
Music of Jazz in the City RALPH BOWEN (Friday) Walter White on trumpet, Lage Lund on guitar, Kenny Davis on bass and Adam Cruz on drums. 9 and 10:30 p.m. Jazz Gallery 290 Hudson Street, at Spring Street, South Village (212) 242-1063 GEORGE COLLIGAN ...
Folk Music Singer and Actress Susan Reed Dubbed 'America's Concert Favorite'
Folk music thrush and actress Susan Reed died April 25 of natural causes in Greenport, N.Y. She was 84. Reed was introduced to folk music by members of Ireland's Abbey Players, who would spend time with her family during visits to the United States. She went on to star at Cafe Society in Gotham for two ...
Handwritten Lennon Lyrics to be Auctioned
One side of a handwritten, autographed manuscript by the late John Lennon is shown. The document, with the lyrics to “A Day in the Life," will be offered at auction by Sotheby's in New York on Friday, June 18. For the right price, some lucky Beatlemaniac will be able to own the lyrics to the final ...
Tomas Fujiwara Exploring the Drums' Potential as an Orchestra in Miniature
The drummer Tomas Fujiwara works with rhythm as a pliable substance, solid but ever shifting. Over the last five years he has established a busy profile on the experimental end of the jazz spectrum, where such perspective is vital; before that he was a cast member of “Stomp," the polymorphously percussive Off Broadway show. His style ...
Actor Cast for Charles Musical
Actor Brandon Victor Dixon will portray the legendary singer Ray Charles in “Unchain My Heart," a new musical opening on Broadway Nov. 7. Dixon won rave reviews earlier this season for his performance in “The Scottsboro Boys," the John Kander-Fred Ebb musical at off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre. He also starred in the original Broadway production of “The ...
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