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News: Recording

Lindsey Horner: Working Hard on Undiscovered Country

September 14, 2009

Lindsey Horner will be releasing his latest project, “Undiscovered Country" on ArtistShare in March of 2010. The band has already begun rehearsing the music for the new album. The project features a stellar lineup of diverse musicians, coming from all types of musical backgrounds, to create a musical landscape of fantasticly unique instrumentation. In Lindsey's own ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Myron Walden a Jazz Saxophonist Who Embraces Earnestness

September 14, 2009

The saxophonist Myron Walden was cultivated at Smalls, New Yorks magic garden for jazz musicians in the 1990s. There, in groups and on his own, he began to find his sound and style and temperament as an improviser, most often on alto saxophone. Hes been methodical and emotional, energetic and honest, following chord changes with a ...

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News: Obituary

Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, is Dead

September 13, 2009

Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in The Basketball Diaries, died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60. The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his former wife. As a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at Trinity, ...

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News: Festival

Dan Tepfer, Cole Porter Fellow 2009, Added to IndyJazzFest

September 13, 2009

The Indy Jazz Festival, presented by Marsh, in Indianapolis announces that current Cole Porter Fellow, Dan Tepfer, has been added to the lineup of this prestigious festival presented yearly. Dan will appear in the opening music spot all week. This year the festival, which runs 9/19 - 9/27, presents legendary musicians such as The Joshua Redman ...

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Article: Live Review

Phish at The Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York

by Doug Collette
September 13, 2009

Phish Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, New York August 16, 2009 It's a long way from Fenway Park to Saratoga Springs New York, not so much in geographical terms, but in the progress Phish has made in recapturing their group chemistry since beginning their 2009 summer tour. ...

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Article: Film Review

Miles Davis: That's What Happened: Live in Germany 1987

by Graham L. Flanagan
September 13, 2009

Miles DavisThat's What Happened: Live in Germany 1987 Eagle Eye Media2009The idea that Miles Davis “lost his chops" sometime after the '70s has been stated many times. This DVD offers proof that they simply evolved along with the changing musical landscape in order to be (as Miles says ...

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Article: New York Beat

Ladies From Afar

by Nick Catalano
September 12, 2009

This month we celebrate the ever-increasing expansion of jazz overseas, particularly two foreign women who, for different reasons, have captured the jazz spirit: Roberta Gambarini from Torino, Italy and Amina Figarova from Baku, Aserbaijan. Gambarini arrived in New York not long ago and immediately jumped into the Gotham jazz scene, sharing the stage with ...

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Article: Live From New York

September 2009

by AAJ Staff
September 12, 2009

Jenny ScheinmanLe Poisson RougeNew York City August 4, 2009The chameleon-like but ever electric Nels Cline seemed at first to be an unusual partner for violinist Jenny Scheinman, but if anything the guitarist knows how to make things work and he pushed the quartet (with bassist Matt Penman and drummer Jim ...

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Article: Book Review

Jazz Notes: Interviews Across the Generations

by Karen Hogg
September 12, 2009

Jazz Notes: Interviews Across the Generations Sanford Josephson Softcover; 208 pages ISBN: 0313357005 Praeger 2009 Jazz Notes is more than just a compilation of interviews with jazz greats. In addition to talks with luminaries like Hoagy Carmichael and Dave Brubeck, it includes updated conversations ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Things That Go Jazz in the Night NY

September 11, 2009

Weekend Jazz Haunts in Manhattan AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE QUARTET Gerald Clayton on piano, Harish Raghavan on bass and Justin Brown on drums. Friday & Saturday At 9 and 10:30 p.m. Jazz Gallery 290 Hudson Street, at Spring Street, South Village (212) 242-1063, jazzgallery.org CIRCLE DOWN/BENEFIT ...