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News: Performance / Tour

Ron Kaplan Sings New York! July 10 and 11, 2009

July 5, 2009

Great American Songbook Preservationist and classic-jazz-standards singer Ron Kaplan is making a rare concert appearance in New York City on July 10 and 11 to present his New York Song Collection. Kaplan will perform at FEINSTEIN'S at the Regency Hotel, located at 540 Park Avenue, NYC. Tickets can be purchased for the July 10 and 11, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Saxophonist Daniel Bennett at the Alphabet Lounge

July 5, 2009

Saxophonist Daniel Bennett brings his original mix of jazz, folk, and minimalism to the Alphabet Lounge. The Daniel Bennett Group has shared concert stages with guitarist Bill Frisell, Charlie Hunter Trio, saxophonist James Carter, percussionist Billy Martin (Medeski, Martin, & Wood), saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi, David Fiuczynski (Screaming Headless Torsos), Denison Witmer, and LA-based synthpop group Joy ...

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News: Obituary

Sandra Warfield Opera and Cabaret Singer Dies

July 5, 2009

Sandra Warfield, an American mezzo-soprano who performed frequently with the Metropolitan Opera in the 1950s, 60s and early 70s, died on Monday in Manhattan. She was 88 and lived on the Upper East Side. Ms. Warfield made her Met debut in 1953, singing the part of a peasant girl in Mozarts Marriage of Figaro. One hundred ...

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News: Obituary

Ken Roberts Announcer Whose Voice Graced the Heyday of Radio Dies

July 5, 2009

Ken Robertss voice was so comforting, it was said he had a golden throat. Welcome in millions of American homes, its resonant urbanity helped housewives and their families while away many an afternoon and evening. He was a good-looking man, too: tall and dark, with a resemblance to Errol Flynn according to his son, anyway. But ...

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News: Performance / Tour

July Jazz at NY's Vanguard in the Village

July 4, 2009

The Village Vanguard's July Schedule JULY 2009 July 07 - July 12 PAUL MOTIAN TRIO 2000 + 3 Loren Stillman-asax, Michael Adkins-tsax, Masabumi Kikuchi-p, Ben Street-b July 14 - July 19 BILL CAROTHERS TRIO Nic Thys-b, Dre Pallemaerts-d July 21 - July 26 FRED ...

News: Performance / Tour

Greenwich Village Poisson Rouge Where Music is the Scene

July 4, 2009

Poisson Rouge's sense of musical adventure A million New Yorkers can be wrong. So naturally, I had my suspicions about all the extravagant enthusiasm from the press and the local music community for (Le) Poisson Rouge, the club for new and various kinds of music that opened in Greenwich Village a year ago. Two entrepreneurial musicians ...

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News: Obituary

Allen Klein Ex-Beatles, Rolling Stones Manager Dies

July 4, 2009

Former music manager Allen Klein, a no-holds-barred businessman who bulldozed his way into and out of deals with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, has died. A publicist for Klein's company, ABKCO Music & Records, says Klein died today at his New York City home of Alzheimer's disease. He was 77. Klein became one of the ...

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Article: Live Review

Esperanza Spalding Live at Central Park Summerstage

by Ernest Barteldes
July 4, 2009

Esperanza Spalding Central Park Summerstage New York, New York June 28, 2009 The Oregon-born bassist and vocalist seems to have found her voice as an entertainer. At least comparing what we saw last Sunday with her performances at the Jazz Standard earlier this year, one could notice that Spalding has ...

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Article: Live From New York

July 2009

by AAJ Staff
July 4, 2009

Smoke Big BandSmokeNew York City June 4, 2009When the Smoke Big Band, under the direction of Bill Mobley, crowded onto the Smoke bandstand for its second set (Jun. 4th), the focus was on music by '80s-era Jazz Messengers alumni: Billy Pierce, Donald Brown and Mulgrew Miller. Mobley is a trumpeter, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Reggie Nicholson: Timbre Suite & Surreal Feel

by Francis Lo Kee
July 4, 2009

Reggie Nicholson Timbre Suite Abstract 2008 Reggie NicholsonSurreal FeelAbstract2009 Timbre Suite is a six-movement composition that focuses on the percussion instruments and the “sound-color" of which those instruments are capable. ...