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Peter Eldridge at Birdland
Peter Eldridge performs at BIRDLAND with his band and very special guests Kate McGarry, Lauren Kinhan and Jo Lawry. Previewing songs from his newest album entitled 'Mad Heaven', as well as new and old originals and arrangements. One long set at 7 pm Players - Keith Ganz on guitar, Tim Lefebvre on bass, Ben Wittman on ...
Westchester Jazz Orchestra Conducts Clinic at New Rochelle High School
Westchester, NY The Westchester Jazz Orchestra is a world-class band well-known for their extraordinary concerts. This exceptional performing group also conducts educational workshops and is running a two-day clinic with jazz students from New Rochelle High School that began yesterday. Mike Holober, WJOs Artistic Director, is leading the workshops. One of the most important experiences a ...
Henry Grimes: Like He's Never Been Away
by Matthew Miller
Henry Grimes The Call ESP Disk 2008 The disappearance and re-emergence of Henry Grimes after almost 30 years is one of jazz music's great resurrection stories. The Juilliard-trained double bassist, who began his career in the late 1950s with the likes of clarinetist Benny Goodman and saxophonist Gerry ...
Brad Shepik: Human Activity Suite
by Stuart Broomer
Brad Shepik's Human Activity Suite is a ten-part mingling of world music materials from various cultures and ecological concerns. Sponsored by Chamber Music America's New Works program, the project sees guitarist Shepik enlarging his usual trio with Gary Versace on keyboards and Tom Rainey on drums to include trumpeter Ralph Alessi and bassist Drew Gress. The ...
Roswell Rudd: Keep Your Heart Right
by Fred Bouchard
Ruby Braff once described a jazz combo as “conversation among friends." Venerated veteran trombonist Roswell Rudd rates prime candidacy for Mister Congeniality as he relaxes in witty repartee and pleasant banter with like-thinking colleagues: stalwart-yet-light-fingered pianist Lafayette Harris Jr., orotund bassist Brad Jones and singer Sunny Kim, a dew-dappled voice of reason and cheer. Rudd, self-styled ...
Ari Hoenig: Bert's Playground
by Elliott Simon
The varied contexts in which drummers play make their own sessions as leaders either spottily uneven or dynamically diverse. For Bert's Playground, drummer Ari Hoenig has gathered a troop of six musicians that includes two bassists, guitarists and saxophonists that he mixes and matches to illuminate the fun to be had. After receiving ...
Birdland
“Birdland, The Jazz Corner of the World" - - Charlie Parker Concert Grand Piano Courtesy of... Since June 2004, Birdland's 9 foot Concert Grand Piano has been made available through the support of Gerhard Feldmann Grand Piano Works. The instrument was selected by the late Dr. Oscar Peterson for his first New York Engagement in many ...
Westchester Jazz Orchestra to Perform Favorite Movie Songs in Irvington on April 18
WJO Sextet Will Play at Jacob Burns Film Center on Apr 16 Westchester, NY The Westchester Jazz Orchestra is a local orchestra in about the same way as, say, the New York or Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras are local. On Sat., Apr. 18, this sixteen-piece big band will perform their interpretations of memorable music from the movies ...
Xavier Casellas NY Quintet @ Smalls Jazz Club, NY
XAVIER CASELLAS NY QUINTET Xavier Casellas, vocals & lyrics Emilio Solla, piano & arrangements Ben Monder, guitar Jorge Roeder, double bass Ted Poor, drums special guests: Vctor Prieto, accordion Oscar Feldman, alto sax New material to be recorded right after gigs at ...
Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra
The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, directed by Bobby Sanabria, presents “FOR HORACE, MANNY and MARIO” a tribute to Horace Silver, Manny Albam and Mario Bauz, on Friday, March 20 at 7:30 pm in the School’s John C. Borden Auditorium. The program will include: Cubauz, by Michael Philip Mossman Dedicated ...
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