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You're Gonna Keep On Drinking? O.K., They'll Keep on Playing
Michael Blake Quartet with the bassist Ben Allison and the guitarist Steve Cardenas at City Winery in a series titled Wine & Jazz — A Great Pairing. The saxophonist Michael Blake gamely addressed his audience between songs at City Winery on Tuesday night, though that exercise must have felt a little disheartening. Most of the club’s ...
Actress Natasha Richardson Dies After Skiing Accident
The wife of actor Liam Neeson and member of the Redgrave theatrical family was 45. Natasha Richardson, the luminous British actress from one of the world's great acting families, whose performances ranged from the highbrow drama “The Handmaid's Tale" to the lightweight comedy “The Parent Trap" and the Tony-winning Broadway production of “Cabaret," died Wednesday. She ...
Playing Langston Hughes's Jazzy Verse
Among the challenges confronting any composer intent on setting to music Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, a set of poems completed by Langston Hughes in 1961, probably the most daunting is that Hughes already called the tunes. His dazzling poems, by turns earnest, raffish and folksy, bulge with references to famous musicians and familiar ...
A Jazz Season Lineup with a Focus on Piano
Wynton Marsalis, the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, plans to announce the organization’s 2009-10 season Wednesday with a lineup that includes a season-opening Rose Hall performance by Ornette Coleman and his band on Sept. 26; programs built around the work of Bill Evans, Mary Lou Williams, Fats Waller and Count Basie; and concerts with ...
SFJAZZ Colective: Live 2008: 5th Annual Concert Tour
by Joel Roberts
Each year since 2004, the SFJAZZ Collective has brought together eight of the top names in jazz (including, in its latest lineup, Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas, Stefon Harris and Miguel Zenon) to focus on the work of a single modern jazz giant. Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock were featured in past years ...
Jeremy Manasia: After Dark
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Pianist, composer and arranger Jeremy Manasia is the driving force behind After Dark, an excellent group of originals and standards rendered by Manasia, drummer Charles Ruggiero and bassist Barak Mori. Manasia wrote most of the songs with classic jazz as his guiding principle. Up-tempo tunes like “Ruggburn" or the cool mid-tempo blues “Arch ...
Original Silence: The Second Original Silence
by A. Henkin
There a certain amount of irony in calling a group Original Silence that brings together members of The Thing, Sonic Youth, ZU and The Ex. Mats Gustafsson (baritone sax, live electronics), Thurston Moore (guitar), Jim O'Rourke (electronica), Terrie X (guitar), Massimo Pupillo (electric bass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums) threaten the sound barrier just by being in ...
Actress Natasha Richardson Dead at 45, After Ski Accident
One function of celebrity is to alert the rest of us to hard truths, to teach us the lessons of love and grief. Among these is the cruelest jest of fate: a child's death that precedes his or her parents. That instructive obscenity slammed home today with the death of Natasha Richardson, a distinguished British actress ...
Anne Brown, Soprano Who Was Gershwin's Bess, is Dead at 96
Anne Brown, a penetratingly pure soprano who literally put the Bess in “Porgy and Bess” by inspiring George Gershwin to expand the character’s part in a folk opera that was originally to be called “Porgy,” died Friday in Oslo. She was 96. Her daughter Paula Schjelderup announced the death. “Porgy and Bess” burst onto the American ...
Prana Trio Returns to NY: Ancient Poetry and Jazz
Korean jazz singer sensation, Sunny Kim, returns to NY with Prana Trio, an elastic, electric, quest for intoxication, combining animalistic grooves with ancient, sacred poetry in a dreamlike setting, to promote their recent release Pranam (Circavision). Prana Trio: Sunny Kim (KR) - Voice Matt Aronoff (US) - Bass Brian Adler ...
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