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Article: Live Review

The Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra Premieres "Campo"

by Eric Benson
March 13, 2009

Pedro Giraudo Jazz Gallery New York, NY March 6, 2009 Big band jazz is an out-of-date form, its heyday having come in the boom-and-bust interwar years, and any modern-day revival must grapple with its inherent anachronism. Some current big bands try to ignore their historical awkwardness, employing the form ...

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News: Event

Live Jazz, Cory S. Thompson @ Bistrouge on Sunday on March 22, 8-11PM

March 12, 2009

Celebrate a night of Bebop and Vocalese @ Bistrouge. Just a few blocks from jazz legend Charlie Parker's home in the East Village. Come enjoy a night of jazz dedicated to the genre he helped develop. Cory S. Thompson and his trio will be playing classics from the Bebop era and the Vocalese that followed. Featuring ...

News: Performance / Tour

Harris Eisenstadt's March Residency at Brooklyn's Ibeam Continues March 14th

March 12, 2009

Drummer/composer Harris Eisenstadt is in residence at Brooklyn's IBeam Music Studio every Saturday night in March at 9:00 p.m. These are the first-ever performances of his new nonet, Harris Eisenstadt's Woodblock Prints. The group's music is inspired by depictions of nature found in Japanese woodblock prints, an ancient form of relief printing created from intricately carved ...

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Article: Live Review

Jason Moran Returns to Monk at Town Hall

by Eric Benson
March 12, 2009

Jason Moran and the Big Bandwagon In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall 1959Town Hall New York, New York February 27, 2009 Jason Moran was playing perfectly. He'd just begun his solo introduction to “In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959"—his tribute to, and reimagining of, Thelonious ...

News: Performance / Tour

Tamarama Spray of Surf Rock and the Caribbean

March 11, 2009

The Australian musicians Jay Lyon and Nicolas Potts, make up the band Tamarama, at Webster Hall on Monday. The first thing you notice at the Tamarama show is that no one is filming it. Not even a kid on a cellphone. A couple of young folks are shooting stills, anticipating a party that never quite starts, ...

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News: Event

Alice Tully Hall's Makeover Resounds

March 11, 2009

At a time when the moneyed life in New York feels as if it is being sucked into the sewers, the reopening of Alice Tully Hall, the chamber music venue at Lincoln Center, feels like an eddy in the stream. After the hall had been caged for almost two years by scaffolding and heavy equipment, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Beat Kaestli @ Cachaca (NYC) March 17th on March 17th at 7:30/9PM

March 11, 2009

BEAT KAESTLI QUARTET @ CACHACA JAZZ CLUB, NYC Before heading out on my his second tour to Mexico BEAT KAESTLI premiers his new French Music project at Cachaca Jazz Club on MARCH 17TH, featuring PAUL MEYERS, ARIA HENDRICKS and MAGOS HERRERA. He’ll also include some great new American Standards and songs from his upcoming release “Far ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Mark Berman: Piano Genius Behind "Sex and the City" and Hugh Jackman

March 11, 2009

Pianist Berman Leads Trio with Vocalist Ken Ard, Live at The Metropolitan Room, NYC, Mondays, March 16 & 23 New York, NY - March 11, 2009 - “Mark Berman is a rock of creativity, laughter and joy," says Hugh Jackman, Oscar host and Hollywood star, who spent over a year singing with Berman (on piano nightly) ...

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Article: Interview

Odean Pope: A Singular Voice in the Choir

by Elliott Simon
March 11, 2009

Grounded in the Baptist spirituals of his youth followed by a musical upbringing in Philadelphia with the likes of John Coltrane and organist Jimmy Smith as mentors, tenor saxophonist Odean Pope is the bridge between hard bop and free. His contributions to jazz are of major historical significance and through his over ...

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News: TV / Film

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - Four-Part Documentary

March 10, 2009

Four-Part Jazz Documentary Explores Contemporary Jazz Luminaries Including Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Jason Moran, The Bad Plus The Documentary Channel Exclusive Premiere Of All Four Episodes Begins April 20 Episode One Premieres April 15 at Jazz At Lincoln Center Paradigm Studio partners with Don Q Rum in association with Rums of Puerto Rico to present Icons ...