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News: Performance / Tour

Dave Allen Quartet at Tea Lounge (NYC) on May 12th

May 8, 2009

May 12th Tea Lounge with Mark Turner - sax Jeff Ballard - drums Chris Lightcap - bass Dave Allen - guitar/compositions 9pm - 12 837 Union St, Brooklyn $5 Cover “Allen has found a true voice, his effortless technique downplays the apparent complexity, paradoxically creating a cool surface sheen that has a white heat ...

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News: Obituary

Sam Cohn New York Talent Agent Dies

May 8, 2009

Sam Cohn was dubbed by Time magazine in 1993 the first super agent of the modern age. During his more than three decades at International Creative Management, he dominated the business, representing the likes of Paul Newman, Woody Allen, Meryl Streep and Susan Sarandon. Sam Cohn, a powerful talent agent who dominated New York's talent business ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Positive Catastrophe CD Release Concerts at Jazz Gallery May 8th and 9th

May 7, 2009

On Friday, May 8th and Saturday, May 9th, Positive Catastrophe will celebrate the release of its debut recording, Garabatos Volume One (Cuneiform Records), with a two-night stand at New York's Jazz Gallery. The brainchild of cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum and multi- instrumentalist/composer Abraham Gomez-Delgado, this self-described trans-idiomatic little big band connects the musical dots between intergalactic ...

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Article: Album Review

Loren Connors / Jim O'Rourke: Two Nice Catholic Boys

Read "Two Nice Catholic Boys" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk
May 7, 2009

Musicians who collaborate with Loren Connors have to be prepared to enter his world. Connors is fixed firmly in his own distended blues, in wandering, mournful melodies and heavy quiet noise. The meeting won't be based on rhythm or key or swapping chops but waves of emotion laid bare. Nobody (save Connors' wife, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Summer Reigns as URB ALT Festival 2009 Announces June Dates

May 6, 2009

New York, NY -- The fourth annual URB ALT Festival brings exciting multi- cultural music/film/visual artists to Harlem, Downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn. The popular summer festival runs from June 20-27. During the week URB ALT Festival 2009 will present live music performances, a feature film premiere, an art exhibition, a fashion show and album release parties ...

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News: Event

Free Louis Armstrong Collage Exhibition - Jazz at Lincoln Center

May 6, 2009

Jazz at Lincoln Center presents a free art exhibition entitled The Collage Aesthetic of Louis Armstrong: “In the Cause of Happiness." The exhibition is open to the public and features large scale images of collages created by Armstrong from clips of photographs, news stories, postcards, letters, telegrams and other materials that Armstrong artfully affixed to the ...

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Article: Album Review

Daniel Sadownick: There Will Be a Day

Read "There Will Be a Day" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
May 6, 2009

Granted this is an oversimplification, but modern Latin jazz was created when percussionist Chano Pozo and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie got together in NYC in the late '40s. While percussionist Daniel Sadownick's sense of history is acute on this debut--witness his use of an excerpt from Pozo's “Rumba En Swing" on the catchy solo percussion opener “Dedication"--he ...

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News: Event

Culture Project Presents the Cat Who Went to Heaven, Captivating Jazz Puppet Show at the Harlem School of the Arts with Music and Lyrics by Nancy Harrow

May 5, 2009

Based On The Newbery Award-Winning Book By Elizabeth Coatsworth Directed By Will Pomerantz Six Special Performances Begin Wednesday, May 13, 2009 (suggested donation $10) New York, NY — Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director), who brought to the stage the successful, seven season run of the children’s show Maya the Bee, has announced a special, six-performance ...

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News: Education

New York Jazz Academy, New Jazz School for Kids and Adults, Opens on Manhattan's Upper West Side

May 5, 2009

New York Jazz Academy, New Jazz School for Kids and Adults, Opens on Manhattan's Upper West Side NEW YORK, NY -- The New York Jazz Academy, the Upper West Side's newest music school, will soon be opening its doors, and is now accepting summer and fall 2009 registration inquiries from all interested parents and students. This ...

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Article: Album Review

Omer Klein: Heart Beats

Read "Heart Beats" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
May 5, 2009

Considering the rhythmic spark that freshens this program, it is fitting that Omer Klein's solo piano album begins with a drum solo. Sitting down at the drum set, he introduces his forte with hands on drums and a personalized muffle that contains the basic building blocks of life: Heart Beats. Elsewhere, he spends his time at ...