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Strike Seen as Likely at New York City Opera
Efforts by the New York City Opera to get back on its feet hit a road bump road Friday when a union leader cited what he called the likelihood of a strike by singers, chorus members and production staff members. The official, Alan Gordon, said he had sent a letter to singers agents accusing City Opera ...
Larry Coryell with Joey DeFrancesco at the Iridium
by David Miller
Larry Coryell Organ TrioWith Joey DeFrancesco and Byron LandhamThe IridiumNew York, New YorkMarch 26, 2009The atmosphere was surprisingly quiet in advance of the early set at the reliably raucous Iridium on a rainy Thursday night. The excitement was palpable. I didn't fully understand--we were just going to hear a ...
Callaway at The Colony
by Nick Catalano
There are so many perspectives from which to view Ann Hampton Callaway's vocal arsenal that I decided that I would take advantage of a Florida book tour stop I was making and catch her appearance at the Royal room of the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach. By skipping her CD launch party at Dizzy's (from where ...
Phil Woods: Ballads & Blues, Live at the Jazz Showcase, The Children's Suite
by Greg Thomas
Phil Woods Quintet Ballads & Blues Venus Records 2009 The Bob Lark/Phil Woods Quintet Live at the Jazz Showcase Jazzed Media 2009 Phil Woods The Children's Suite Jazzed ...
Toru Dodo: Do You Like Cappuccino?
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Listeners who look to a musician's collegiate trajectory for elucidation on his craft may find themselves at a loss, but Toru Dodo's biography gives us something to work with right away. Prior to studying at Berklee College of Music, Dodo attended Meiji University in Tokyo, where he got a degree in Economics. His intellectual preparation seems ...
Reut Regev: This Is R*Time
by Martin Longley
Trombonist Reut Regev moved to New York City from Israel in 1998, and soon began working with Anthony Braxton, Frank London and Butch Morris. Her newest band is R*Time, a quartet that concentrates almost entirely on her original material. She is joined by drummer Igal Foni, bassist Brad Jones and guitarist David Phelps, the latter employing ...
Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra: El Viaje
by Jim Santella
Bassist Pedro Giraudo has created an excellent program of tone poems that come alive through his 12-piece orchestra. Dedicated to his wife and infant daughter, most of the compositions relate his feelings on becoming a father and assuming new responsibilities. He explains in his liner notes that the event was a major turning point in his ...
Manhattan Club Sounds
Jazz Listings New York RALPH ALESSI AND THIS AGAINST THAT Tony Malaby on tenor and soprano saxophones, Andy Milne on piano, John Hebert on bass and Mark Ferber on drums. (Wednesday and Thursday) At 9 and 10:30 p.m. Jazz Gallery 290 Hudson Street, at Spring Street, ...
Clarinetist David Krakauer's Klezmer All Star Bash at Carnegie Hall
The Wild and Woolly Music of the Shtetl, in All Its Infinite Variety. The clarinetist David Krakauer, the artistic director of Klezmer All-Star Bash at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, taking the stage to play a number with the Klezmatics, one of the evenings acts. What comes after a revival? Thats the question that a generation of ...
The Slack-Key Guitarist Makana, One Mans New Take On an Old Tradition
Half a dozen songs into his show at the Sage Theater in Times Square on Thursday night, Makana paused for reflection. Somehow, he said, not being of Hawaiian ancestry allowed me to really embrace the artistic side of the culture. The line felt sincere but well worn; its air of self-reassurance suggested a talisman on a ...
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