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Birdland, the Jazz Corner of the World!
Miranda Sings! (Haters, Back Off!) Monday, October 12 @ 7pm Internet sensation Miranda's New York City concert debut at Birdland last month was such a smash hit that she is making a return visit! Miranda Sings is an internet character created by California-based theatre student Colleen Ballinger, and proliferated via YouTube. The ...
John Lennon Re-Imagining Himself, then Gone
Robert Hilburn, former pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times, is author of “Corn Flakes With John Lennon (and Other Tales From a Rock 'n' Roll Life)." An excerpt in Sunday Calendar recalled his relationship with Lennon after the Beatles' breakup. In today's abridged excerpt, he writes about Lennon's murder. In 1980, after 10 years ...
Monk's Music and the Guitar
by Bobby Broom
As a guitarist whose love for jazz music began in the '70s, I was understandably excited to hear a few months ago, from a most reliable source, that Thelonious Monk really dug guitarist George Benson! Benson was probably the most popular jazz guitarist of the '70s and those who know about the place of the guitar ...
Thelonious Monk: Pianists Riff on Monk
by George Kanzler
This month, over a dozen pianists will participate in a free concert, Thelonious Monk at 92, at the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan. Seven of them, and two other pianists with an abiding interest in Monk, answered questions about Monk's music and more specifically, his piano playing, as influence and inspiration. Jazz ...
Marty Ehrlich: Things Have Got To Change
by Stuart Broomer
The clarity that's so immediately apparent in Marty Ehrlich's alto sound permeates his work, so that there's a quality at once naked and luminous in the music heard here. The quartet with trumpeter James Zollar, cellist Erik Friedlander and drummer Pheeroan akLaff and the concept harkens back to the early Ornette Coleman Quartet, each member committed ...
The MacroQuarktet: Each Part a Whole: Live at the Stone
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Pushing the boundaries of spontaneous expression, one of trumpeter Herb Robertson's latest projects is the MacroQuarktet with fellow trumpeter Dave Ballou and the formidable rhythm tandem of bassist Drew Gress and drummer Tom Rainey. Eschewing a blitzkrieg approach, the three improvisations on Each Part a Whole exude deliberative patience with ideas tested and developed into longer ...
Vito Di Modugno Organ Trio in New York
Vito Di Modugno, the phenomenal Hammond organist from Bari, Italy, will be here in the U.S. on tour from Dec. 26 to Jan. 5. Vito has dates open and we are looking for venues that have a Hammond organ and would like to book Vito's organ trio with Francesco Lomagistro on drums and Carol Sudhalter on ...
The Jazz Standard
New York's Jazz Standard Monday October 12 Mingus Big Band Charles Mingus was looking for individuality in his musicians and thats one of the great things also about being in the Mingus Big Band, because it really forces you to have your own individual sound. Each song every night is played in ...
Wu Fei: Yuan
by Kurt Gottschalk
Composer Wu Fei , as evidenced by the five compositions on Yuan, occupies a world that straddles traditional Chinese music and more contemporary styles of writing and playing. Fei seems to be particularly interested in strings and percussion, as well as in percussive strings and melodic percussion. The instrumentation ranges from solo percussion ...
David Berkman: Live at Smoke
by Ken Dryden
David Berkman is one of many seasoned pianists with an extensive discography who deserves wider recognition from the jazz public, though he has achieved it with his fellow musicians. Berkman has lived in New York since 1985 and has long played Smoke (as well as earlier incarnation Augie's). Since he appreciates its audiences, attentive owners and ...
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