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News: Performance / Tour

Tim Kuhl Group @ Rose Live Music

October 5, 2009

Sunday October 11th @ 9pm, my band will perform at the fine Williamsburg, Brooklyn venue Rose, part of the Brooklyn Experiments Series. This group of musicians are not to be missed .. Pete Robbins - Alto Sax Rick Parker - Trombone Jonathan Goldberger - Guitar Ryan ...

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Article: Album Review

Joel Frahm and Bruce Katz: Project A

Read "Project A" reviewed by Marcia Hillman

by Marcia Hillman
October 5, 2009

Tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm has teamed up with pianist/organist Bruce Katz for Project A, a tribute to Aretha Franklin and containing material with which she is associated. Although Frahm's foundation is jazz, there is a soul-filled side of him that enjoys working with the likes of Katz, renowned for his work with the Allman Brothers Band. ...

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Article: Album Review

Dafnis Prieto Si o Si Quartet: Live at Jazz Standard NYC

Read "Live at Jazz Standard NYC" reviewed by Tom Greenland

by Tom Greenland
October 5, 2009

Live at Jazz Standard NYC, by the Si o Si Quartet, is drummer/bandleader/composer Dafnis Prieto's fourth album of all-original material, cementing his reputation as a formidable technician and visionary. Returning from his previous release are Peter Apfelbaum (tenor and soprano saxophones, melodica) and Manuel Valera (keyboards), while acoustic and electric bassist Charles Flores is his partner-in-rhythm ...

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News: Performance / Tour

"Tapestry Rewoven" Returns to Iridium

October 4, 2009

Feel the Earth Move! Laurie Krauz & the Daryl Kojak Octet bring the award-winning show, “Tapestry Rewoven," back to Iridium for first Tuesdays beginning November 3rd at 8pm and 10pm! On the heels of their triumphant night at BB King's, Laurie Krauz & The Daryl Kojak Octet bring their acclaimed “Tapestry Rewoven" back to Iridium Jazz ...

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Article: Book Review

Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes

by Florence Wetzel
October 4, 2009

Ron Carter: Finding The Right Notes Dan Ouellette 435 pagesISBN: 978-0-615-26526-1 ArtistShare 2008 The biography of bassist Ron Carter possesses everything one could desire: an introduction by noted jazz writer Nat Hentoff, a judicious discography, copious photographs, and a stream of well-researched facts and anecdotes about Carter and ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Evan Parker Solo 1975 & 1989

by Martin Longley
October 4, 2009

Evan ParkerSaxophone Solos Chronoscope-psi2009 Evan ParkerConic Sections ah um-psi2008 This pair of solo soprano saxophone releases reveals the evolution of Evan Parker's approach to the act of a lonesome recital. ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Fred Frith: To Sail, To Sail, Pas de Deux & The Big Picture/Still Urban

by Marc Medwin
October 4, 2009

Fred FrithTo Sail, To SailTzadik2008 Fred Frith, Danielle Palardy RogerPas de deuxActuelle2008 Fred Frith and Arte QuartettThe Big PictureIntakt2009 Fred Frith and Arte Quartett

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Article: Album Review

Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day

Read "Canada Day" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen
October 4, 2009

Drummer and composer Harris Eisenstadt has, at age 33, a rather lengthy discography and one that's incredibly diverse for a drummer who could have stuck to cutting teeth as an able sideman in contemporary improvisation. As a leader, his story is even more expansive, running the gamut from Senegalese Mbalax to free-bop. Canada Day is a ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Cellar Live: Cory Weeds & Ross Taggart

by Graham L. Flanagan
October 4, 2009

For Canadians, it sure is a good time to be a jazz fan. Much of the reason can be attributed to Cory Weeds; he owns a popular Vancouver venue called the Jazz Cellar, runs record label Cellar Live and—on his “down time"—plays the tenor sax in his own ensemble.On Everything's Coming Up Weeds, the ...

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Article: Album Review

Wynton Marsalis: He and She

Read "He and She" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
October 4, 2009

He and She is a full-bodied meditation on love and the complexities of the human heart. The CD is a rich offering of 12 Wynton Marsalis compositions as well as a long poem by Marsalis, interspersed between tracks and then read in its entirety at the end. Marsalis culminated 2007's From the Plantation to the Penitentiary ...