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News: Festival

Creole Restaurant and Music Supper Club Latin Jazz Legacy Series

July 7, 2009

Creole Restaurant and Music Supper Club continues to raise artistic and showcase standards while invigorating the Harlem Jazz scene, and proudly presenting the Latin Jazz Legacy Series featuring top stars on the Latin Jazz scene LATIN JAZZ LEGACY SERIES JULY & AUGUST 2009 July 10th and 11th at 8:00pm & 10:00pm CHEMBO CORNIEL LATIN ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jakob Dylan Lyrics Approximately: Late-Night Improvising

July 7, 2009

Jakob Dylan ran into a bout of forgetfulness during his encore at the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza on Monday night. His band, the Wallflowers, had just started into Babybird, a lullaby from their third album, Breach. And after drawing a lyrical blank, Mr. Dylan turned to the crowd for help, only to face an ...

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Article: Album Review

Rebecca Kilgore / Dave Frishberg: Why Fight the Feeling?

Read "Why Fight the Feeling?" reviewed by Donald Elfman

by Donald Elfman
July 7, 2009

Pianist Dave Frishberg describes Frank Loesser as his hero, succinctly describing the importance of Loesser to songwriters everywhere. Loesser could have no better champions than vocalist Rebecca Kilgore and Frishberg. They make the art of interpreting song seem natural and easy, despite the fact it's truly a craft to get to the heart of a great ...

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Article: Album Review

Paul Bley: Barrage

Read "Barrage" reviewed by Stuart Broomer

by Stuart Broomer
July 7, 2009

At times circumstance conspires to hide a masterpiece: it may be the artist's lack of reputation; perhaps it doesn't resemble his more typical works or it's just overshadowed by more prominent or better promoted music. Paul Bley's Barrage is such a work. Produced in 1964 when most of the band was unknown, it's a singularly non-lyrical ...

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Article: Album Review

Jerome Sabbagh: One Two Three

Read "One Two Three" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
July 7, 2009

The opening cut on One Two Three is pianist George Shearing's bop classic “Conception". Do not, however, let this fool you. Although tenorist Jerome Sabbagh burns, this is not simply a blowing session nor is it really, as Sabbagh suggests, his take on the standards. While there are tunes such as a somewhat campy (how could ...

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News: Performance / Tour

World of Jazz II Concert Series

July 6, 2009

July 11 – August 1, 2009, every Saturday at 12 PM The Chelsea Art Museum (CAM) is proud to present for the second consecutive year World of Jazz, a concert series, developed in collaboration with jazz saxophonist Lars Haake. World of Jazz features talented emerging artists on the New York Jazz scene, who focus on the ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Creole Restaurant & Music Supper Club ‘Latin Jazz Legacy Series’ Presents Chembo Corniel Latin Jazz Quintet CD Release Party July 10th & 11th 8 & 10 PM

July 6, 2009

Creole Restaurant and Music Supper Club continues to raise artistic and showcase standards while invigorating the Harlem Jazz scene and proudly presenting the Latin Jazz Legacy Series – featuring the top artists in the Latin Jazz genre – and kicking off with the Chembo Corniel Latin Jazz Quintet – Friday, July 10th and Saturday, July 11, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Lee Konitz; "Jammin' on the Hudson"

July 6, 2009

Riverbank State Park, in association with Brownstone Entertainment Complex, LLC, for our fifth consecutive year are pleased to present: “Jammin' On The Hudson." 'Jammin'; The Summer Concert Series for the 'serious' Jazz Lover! What could be more inviting than listening to the sounds of great Jazz Artists, cast out over The Hudson River, at sunset, for ...

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News: Performance / Tour

When Scott Met Irving ... or Didn't

July 5, 2009

ITS one of Mark Saltzmans favorite moments in his play with music, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, and he wont even take the credit. Near the end of the show, which imagines a meeting between the composers Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin, Joplin responds to a painful memory by playing “Bethena", a ragtime waltz he wrote ...

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Sheila Jordan Jazz Voice Finds a Mellower Range

July 5, 2009

WHEN the jazz singer Sheila Jordan is in Manhattan, she has ready access to the musicians, clubs and urban energy she has cherished since she moved there nearly 60 years ago to immerse herself in the music she loved. But when its time for Ms. Jordan to learn new music or work on arrangements, she is ...