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News: Performance / Tour

Michelle Walker Live @ Zinc Bar Monday May 18th 7:30PM-9:30PM - Featuring Nikolaj Hess

Michelle Walker Live @ Zinc Bar Monday May 18th 7:30PM-9:30PM - Featuring Nikolaj Hess

MICHELLE WALKER LIVE @ THE ZINC BAR MONDAY MAY 18TH New York, NY - Critically acclaimed jazz vocalist, Michelle Walker, will perform in concert at the intimate stage of the The Zinc Bar in its widely respected jazz lounge. She will be performing on Monday May 18th, 2009 with one sets starting ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Charles Gayle + Kaneng Lolang + Lilac CO at Warsaw May 28 & 29

Charles Gayle + Kaneng Lolang + Lilac CO at Warsaw May 28 & 29

Warsaw (at The Polish National Home) presents a night of theatre, voice, and jazz. Brooklyn based ensemble lilac co and st john's theatre shows its new piece (HH) hamlethouse, a new work-in progress written by Sean Lewis and featuring Elisa Matula, Seth Powers, and John Morena. Also featuring the voice of Kaneng Lolang, a Nigerian-born singer ...

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News: Recording

"I'm Old Fashioned" by Sadeo Watanabe with the Great Jazz Trio Reissued

"I'm Old Fashioned" by Sadeo Watanabe with the Great Jazz Trio Reissued

Recorded on May 21, 1976, I'm Old Fashioned was the first studio album where Hank Jones, Ron Carter and Tony Williams performed together as The Great Jazz Trio. In this album, they back up renowned Japanese sax player, Sadao Watanabe. Watanabe has recorded steadily primarily for Denon, Elektra and Verve and has worked with Chick Corea, ...

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News: Recording

"Chapter II" by the Great Jazz Trio Reissued

"Chapter II" by the Great Jazz Trio Reissued

Test of Time Records is proud to announce the release of a remastered Chapter II by the Great Jazz Trio. Chapter II is literally the next chapter in The Great Jazz Trio’s history. After several live performances and almost a dozen albums together, the original lineup of Hank Jones, Ron Carter and Tony Williams came to ...

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News: Recording

Vanessa Williams "The Real Thing" in Stores June 2

Internationally-renowned singer and actress Vanessa Williams will release her thirteenth album and debut for Concord Records entitled The Real Thing, on June 2nd, 2009. The collection marks a return to her love for the rhythms of jazz and Latin music, a key part of her musical roots. In addition, THE REAL THING delves into the sophisticated ...

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Article: Live Review

Emilio Santiago & Dori Caymmi at Birdland, NYC

Read "Emilio Santiago & Dori Caymmi at Birdland, NYC" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes

Emilio Santiago and Dori CaymmiBossa Brazil Festival, BirdlandNew York, New YorkApril 22, 2009 For the third consecutive year, New York's Birdland Jazz club opened its doors for the week-long Bossa Brazil Festival, which this time around featured Rio de Janeiro crooner Emilio Santiago, announced by producer Pat Phillips as the “Nat ...

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Article: Live Review

Live Minimalism From New York: Shoko Nagai/Satoshi Takeishi, Signal, Rhys Chatham, Terry Riley & Glenn Branca

Read "Live Minimalism From New York: Shoko Nagai/Satoshi Takeishi, Signal, Rhys Chatham, Terry Riley & Glenn Branca" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley

Shoko Nagai & Satoshi TakeishiThe StoneApril 21, 2009 These Japanese New Yorkers are giving the second performance of Abysm (there was a gig at Roulette in February), an ambitiously intense sequence that revolves around “a tale of a floating world (Ukiyo)," which appears to be the duo's own private land of sonic fantasy. ...

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Article: Album Review

Monica Salmaso / Roberta Sa / Maucha Adnet / Mario Adnet / Alfredo Del-Pinho / Ze Renato: Samba Meets Boogie Woogie

Read "Samba Meets Boogie Woogie" reviewed by Marcia Hillman

by Marcia Hillman

If you think that samba and boogie woogie are too disparate to ever meet, this CD will show you otherwise. An ensemble company of famous Brazilian singers and musicians have put together this collection of material recorded in Brazil during the '40s-50s. The singers--Monica Salmaso, Roberto Sa, Maucha Adnet, Mario Adnet, Alfredo Del-Penho and Ze Renato--sing ...

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Article: Album Review

Zoot Sims: With Bucky Pizzarelli

Read "With Bucky Pizzarelli" reviewed by Andrew Velez

by Andrew Velez

This Zoot Sims-Bucky Pizzarelli set of duets is now 33 years old but there's nary a sign of cobwebs here on a session in which the mutual pleasure of these two pros is happily apparent. If it contained only their bossa-flavored take on Michel Legrand's “Watch What Happens," it would be well worth the price. As ...

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Article: Album Review

Tom Hamilton / Bruce Eisenbeil: Shadow Machine

Read "Shadow Machine" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley

Hazily speaking, electronicist Tom Hamilton emerges from a modern classical realm, while guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil inhabits the jazz improvising zone. On this album, such stylistic concerns are very nearly unimportant, as the pair are engaging in their own language of free improvisation. There's more space in this music, although Hamilton and Eisenbeil never cut back on ...


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