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News: Performance / Tour

'West Side Story' on Broadway

March 20, 2009

The further we get in time from when “West Side Story” was written, the more the musicals mythic dimension come into focus. This beloved 1957 classic earns its timeless status not through the authenticity of its snapshot of gang-ridden New York but rather through its re-envisioning of Romeo and Juliet as a ravishing fusion of drama, ...

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News: TV / Film

Martino Unstrung Premiere NY Screening Draws Overflow Crowd

March 20, 2009

The documentary Martino Unstrung offers an in-depth study of guitarist Pat Martino and the brain disorder that required life-saving emergency surgery which left him with total amnesia that would have ended his career were it not for his persistence and courage in relearning his craft anew. In 2008, this writer reviewed the film and interviewed Martino, ...

News: Performance / Tour

Michelle Walker Live @ Smoke Sunday March 22nd 6PM-8PM

March 20, 2009

On Sunday March 22nd, 2009, Michelle Walker returns to one of her resident performance haunts on the New York Jazz scene, SMOKE Jazz Club, with a talented line up of instrumentalists joining her on stage: Ron Affif ~ Guitar Michael O'Brien ~ Bass John Davis ~ Drums SMOKE Jazz Club ...

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News: Technology

Live Nation Questioned over $6 Parking Fee

March 20, 2009

Live Nation Questioned Over $6 Parking Fee As Ticket Service Woes Continue Is the Live Nation ticketing website sneaking a new charge onto tickets on top of their already steep service fees? The New York Daily News alleges that for concerts at New Jersey’s PNC Bank Arts Center, tickets purchased through Live Nation for events at ...

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Article: Live Review

Sphinx and Preacher: James Carter and the Odean Pope Saxophone Choir

by Eric Benson
March 20, 2009

Odean Pope Saxophone Choir, featuring James Carter Blue Note New York, New York March 15, 2009 For the first thirty minutes of its set on Sunday night, the Odean Pope Saxophone Choir displayed its signature blend of precision and warmth, eight saxophones—nine when Pope stopped conducting and took up ...

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Article: Album Review

Tierney Sutton Band: Desire

by Joel Roberts
March 20, 2009

Most singers place the emphasis on romance when interpreting the Great American Songbook. Not Tierney Sutton. The LA-based vocalist's Desire is a decidedly unromantic, melancholy effort that looks at the darker side of standards by the likes of Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen, as well as more contemporary tunes by Dave Frishberg and others. ...

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Article: Album Review

Dave Douglas & Keystone: Live at Jazz Standard

Read "Live at Jazz Standard" reviewed by Ted Gordon

by Ted Gordon
March 20, 2009

In 1961, Bob Thiele set up a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder at the Village Vanguard to record John Coltrane's quintet. Though there was no official plan for releasing the tapes, Thiele knew that recording every single night of these performances had to be done. The resulting release proves his historical foresight. In 2006, Greenleaf music took ...

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Article: Album Review

Robert Dick / Steve Baczkowski / Ravi Padmanabha: Doh Tala

by Marc Medwin
March 20, 2009

The duo of Steve Baczkowski and Ravi Padmanabha has been engaging in exploratory improv for some time and the addition of master flutist Robert Dick is a stroke of genius. A certain world-beat vibe pervades much of the disc, as it does many of Padmanabha's projects, but this is no mere new-age feel-good ...

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News: Recording

Guitarist Dan Adler's Debut Release "All Things Familiar"

March 19, 2009

All Things Familiar is guitarist Dan Adler’s first CD as a leader. Born and raised in Israel, Dan Adler studied music and composition privately while learning the craft of Jazz by playing with some of Israel’s best known musicians while he was still a teenager. After moving to the US in 1986, Dan Adler has made ...

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News: Radio

Pure Jazz Radio Special: Monk & Trane at Carnegie 1957

March 19, 2009

March 21, 2009 10am & pm (est) ”At Carnegie Hall” is a much acclaimed live album by The Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane. It was recorded on 29 November 1957 at “Thanksgiving Jazz", a benefit concert produced by Kenneth Lee Karpe for the Morningside Community Center in Harlem. The recording, by Voice of America. The ...