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Article: Album Review

Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits: Infinito

Read "Infinito" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
October 10, 2009

Multi-talented percussionist Cyro Baptista may have the most dazzlingly eclectic resumé in contemporary music. He's performed and recorded with mainstream jazzers like Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis; downtown experimentalists like John Zorn and Laurie Anderson; pop icons like Sting and Paul Simon and major Brazilian stars like Milton Nascimento and Ivan Lins. And he may be ...

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Article: Album Review

Gerald Clayton: Two-Shade

by Ken Dryden
October 10, 2009

Gerald Clayton isn't like the average young jazz musician. He was immersed in music studies for a long time (his teachers include Kenny Barron, Billy Childs and Shelly Berg), while gaining experience playing duo piano concerts with Barron, Benny Green and Mulgrew Miller and also performing as a sideman with the legendary Clark Terry. If that's ...

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News: Interview

Julian Lage Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes & Noble (NYC)

October 9, 2009

Julian Lage Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes & Noble (NYC) on Friday October 9th Join us this Friday, October 9th for an in-store Barnes & Noble interview with guitar prodigy Julian Lage. Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm Barnes and Noble 150 East 86th Street New York, NY 10028 About Julian Lage Julian Lage is a ...

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Article: Album Review

John Abercrombie: Wait Till You See Her

Read "Wait Till You See Her" reviewed by Francis Lo Kee

by Francis Lo Kee
October 9, 2009

John Abercrombie = 3242, whose history with ECM stretches back to the early '70s, now releases his fourth CD with the same quartet of violinist Mark Feldman and drummer Joey Baron, newcomer Thomas Morgan replacing previous bassist Marc Johnson. Though there are rambunctious moments, Abercrombie chooses to open with “Sad Song," a somewhat misleading title. The ...

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Article: Album Review

Jim Snidero: Crossfire

by Ken Dryden
October 9, 2009

Since his days as a student at North Texas State University, alto saxophonist Jim Snidero has built quite a discography but this session, with his current working band of guitarist Paul Bollenback, bassist Paul Gill and drummer Billy Drummond, is a rare chance to hear him in a pianoless setting. Crossfire is Snidero's ...

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News: Obituary

Irving Penn Dies at 92; a Giant of Photography

October 8, 2009

Irving Penn, a grand master of American fashion photography whose “less is more" aesthetic, combined with a startling sensuality, defined a visual style that he applied to such varied subjects as designer dresses, cigarette butts and cosmetics jars, many of them now-famous photographs owned by leading art museums, has died. He was 92. Penn died Wednesday ...

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Article: Album Review

John Surman: Brewster's Rooster

Read "Brewster's Rooster" reviewed by Jeff Stockton

by Jeff Stockton
October 8, 2009

Over 150 years experience! That's how the band saxophonist John Surman assembled for Brewster's Rooster could be advertised. Surman first played with drummer Jack DeJohnette in the late '70s and DeJohnette and guitarist John Abercrombie first worked together earlier that decade. Rounded out by bassist Drew Gress, Surman revisits straight-ahead jazz after essaying an eclectic range ...

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Article: Album Review

Taylor Ho Bynum & Spidermonkey Strings: Madeleine Dreams

Read "Madeleine Dreams" reviewed by Ivana Ng

by Ivana Ng
October 8, 2009

Madeleine Dreams is about as odd as the novel upon which it is based. Taylor Ho Bynum and SpiderMonkey Strings weave deftly through the magical realism of Madeleine is Sleeping, a novel written by Bynum's sister Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. Vocalist Kyoko Kitamura flows through the divide between dream and reality with grace. She ...

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News: Performance / Tour

On Ka'a Davis Double CD Release Party at the Stone!

October 7, 2009

The Stone presents A Very Special “Double" CD Release Pereformance!! On Ka'a Davis with the Famous Original Djuke Music Players Friday Midnight October 23rd “On Ka'a Davis (everything) and his band of musical magicians!!" A Special Midnight Concert to celebrate On's two new releases on Live Wired and Tzadik. Celebrating ...

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News: Event

Cynthia Basinet Petitions the United Nations

October 7, 2009

New York - Actress and singer, Cynthia Basinet petitions the United Nations Sixty-fourth General Assembly Fourth Committee on behalf of issues facing the Western Sahara. From the UN official site: CYNTHIA BASINET, singer and actress, said she was “but a small piece” of the larger delegation returning year after year to plead the case that the ...