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News: Performance / Tour

Gene Ess Double Guitar Quartet with Rodney Jones

September 1, 2009

Award winning guitarist, Gene Ess, will bring his double guitar quartet to the Blue Note on Sept 13,2009. The sets are at 12:30PM and 2:30PM. This concert will feature Rodney Jones and Gene Ess in a double guitar musical exploration. The rhythm section of Harvie S and Joey Saylor will add to a great afternoon of ...

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Article: Album Review

East West Quintet: Vast

by Lyn Horton
September 1, 2009

Apparent in the Brooklyn-based East West Quintet's Vast is the way the music teeters between colors, tunes, dynamics, rhythms and abstractions. Varying degrees of crescendos and decrescendos transform the mixtures of melodic temperament from peaceful to anthem-like, from quickly paced to mellifluously slow. That the band members play a multiplicity of different instruments is crucial; they ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe Morris: Wildlife

Read "Wildlife" reviewed by Wilbur MacKenzie

by Wilbur MacKenzie
September 1, 2009

Joe Morris has made a career of directing creative energy towards new experiences and a fascinating development has been the incorporation of new instruments to his vocabulary. Morris distinguished himself as a guitarist in 1994 with the release of Symbolic Gesture. Many duo, trio and ensemble records followed but Morris was not content simply to refine ...

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Article: Album Review

Ornette Coleman: Town Hall 1962

Read "Town Hall 1962" reviewed by Stuart Broomer

by Stuart Broomer
September 1, 2009

When Ornette Coleman promoted this concert in December 1962, he was already in the midst of a long withdrawal from the public stage. Until the Town Hall event, his 1962 performances had consisted of a single concert and a week at the Jazz Gallery six months previously. Further, he hadn't recorded in a studio since March ...

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News: Recording

Gerald Clayton - Two Shade Voted Must Have CD of 2009

August 31, 2009

Gerald Clayton's debut album was released on ArtistShare on July 1st. It has already been getting rave reviews by everyone from the New York Times to jazz.com. Recently, it was voted in the Top 10 Must Have CD's by the Audiophiliac, a part of C-Net. Two Shade made the list along with other acts like Elvis ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Kate Schutt Plays the Northeast This Weekend!

August 31, 2009

Kate Schutt will be touring through the Northeast this weekend, supporting her latest ArtistShare release, Telephone Game. She will be making stops in Boston, Philadelphia and Portland. The schedule is as follows: Thursday, September 3rd - 8pm Chris' Jazz Cafe 1421 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA Friday, September 4th - 8pm ...

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News: Event

Free Concerts in NYC (Mostly Jazz) on September 11

August 31, 2009

LOCAL COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS PLAY FREE CONCERTS FOR PEACE ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2009. DAYTIME CONCERTS AT UNION SQUARE IN MANHATTAN, EVENINGOFCONTEMPORARYJAZZ AND CLASSICAL MUSICIANSWILL ALSOFEATURE ORGANIC PRODUCE FROM LOCAL FARMS. This release highlights two of the concerts to be held as part of the September Concert, an annual citywide music festival in New York, in ...

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Article: Live Review

Seven Days In Norway: The 2009 Oslo Jazz Festival

by Thomas Conrad
August 31, 2009

Oslo Jazz FestivalOslo, NorwayAugust 9-15, 2009 Sunday August 9 was the first day of the Oslo Jazz Festival. It was cloudy and cool and rained off and on all day until, miraculously, the skies cleared just in time for the opening concert. Antony and the Johnsons performed with the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra ...

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Article: Album Review

Jon Irabagon and Mike Pride: I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues

Read "I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk
August 31, 2009

I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues is a hilariously apt title for the new CD by saxophonist Jon Irabagon and drummer Mike Pride. The phrase--and the cover art, featuring both as well-dressed train-hoppers--would suggest a certain something to most listeners, maybe a tribute to Louisiana Red or Memphis Slim or Mississippi John Hurt. And while ...

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Article: Album Review

Polkastra: Apolkalypse Now

Read "Apolkalypse Now" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
August 31, 2009

The 2010 Grammy ceremonies will have one less award to give out with the decision to drop the Polka category from the official Best Album listing, the stated reason being that the awards need to remain “pertinent within the current musical landscape." No matter that the musical landscapes in places like Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Buffalo ...