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Jazz Guitarist Ron Jackson Tours Spain

March 22, 2009

John Burnett Swing Orchestra: West Of State Street / East Of Harlem

by Nic Jones
March 22, 2009

Accolades from the likes of Buddy De Franco and Louie Bellson might lend this band additional legitimacy as keeper of the flame, but its sheer love for the music, as manifested in countless ways here, is more than sufficient in itself. In times like these it takes love as much as anything else to put music ...

Eric Lewis Interpreting Classics of an Alternative Kind

March 21, 2009

The jazz pianist Eric Lewis recently said that when he first listened to the rap-rock band Linkin Park, the sound of its singer, Chester Bennington, put him in mind of John Coltrane. He also said that Linkin Park made him think of Miles Davis and Elvin Jones and Puccini. Seriously: it’s in an interview on the ...

A Guest Guitarist Who Needed No Introduction

March 21, 2009

Eric Clapton got right down to business with the Allman Brothers at the Beacon Theater on Thursday night. Taking the stage to a welcoming roar — his guest turn, while unannounced, was by no means an airtight secret — he picked up his light blue Stratocaster and dug into “Key to the Highway,” a Big Bill ...

Making Music with Less

March 21, 2009

LIKE many musicians who play for the handful of small professional orchestras outside of New York City these days, Gabriel Schaff, a violinist, is struggling to cobble together a living. Mr. Schaff, 49, has contracts that guarantee work with four orchestras, including the Stamford Symphony Orchestra and Long Island Philharmonic. He substitutes in others, including the ...

Ken Ard, Vocal Sensation, with Pianist Mark Berman at the Metropolitan Room

March 21, 2009

Dynamic Baritone Ken Ard, with Mark Berman and His Trio, Live at The Metropolitan Room, NYC, Monday, March 23 at 9:30 pm New York, NY - March 21, 2009 - Rising star vocalist Ken Ard brings his sultry baritone back home from his European tour with the American songbook: Jazz 101, featuring Mark Berman, playing what ...

Devin Richards to Sing at Any Wednesday Series @ Barnes & Nobles Lincoln Triangle

March 21, 2009

Come and hear Devin sing songs from his debut CD My Own Voice on LMGJAZZ as part of Any Wednesday series at Barnes and Nobles @ Lincoln Triangle - April 1st, 2009 @ 6:00 p.m. Songs include: “I Wanna Make Music" “'Ol Man River" “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" and “With Every Breath I ...

Ben Webster / Stan Tracey: Soho Nights, Vol. 1

by Graham L. Flanagan
March 21, 2009

This month celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of jazz's titans: Ben Webster. His career spanned over 40 years, from being a journeyman in the Ellington orchestra to becoming one of that group's biggest stars and subsequently emerging as one of the most iconic figures of the tenor sax. On ...

Dick Hyman: Thinking About Bix (Piano Solo)

by George Kanzler
March 21, 2009

A piano is not a cornet. That should be obvious, yet both the name of the label, Reference Recordings and statements like this one by pianist Dick Hyman in the notes--"As with all of these replicas, I've tried to reproduce Bix' solo exactly."--belie that obvious fact. Hyman's reproductions of cornet solos by Bix Beiderbecke lack not ...

Cecil Taylor: CT: The Dance Project

by Marc Medwin
March 21, 2009

Since the late-'80s, the pioneering imprint FMP has released more of pianist Cecil Taylor's work than any other company, including the mammoth box set documenting his month-long 1988 residency in Berlin. CT: The Dance Project, recorded two years later, documents a performance of which this music was only one component. Bert Noglik's accompanying notes afford reminiscences ...