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7th Annual Lady Got Chops Women's Month Jazz Festival
The 7th Annual LADY GOT CHOPS Women's Month Jazz Festival The Jazz Spot Cafe (aka the Jazz) 179 Marcus Garvey Boulevard (between Kosciuszko St. and DeKalb Ave.) Brooklyn, NY 11221 The LADY GOT CHOPS Women's Month Jazz Festival is co-produced by The Jazz (aka Jazz Spot ...
Marc Copland: New York Trio Recordings Vol. 3: Night Whispers
by John Kelman
Some artists are so consistent that it's difficult to tag one release as better than another. Still, every now and then they manage to release career milestones that stand above the rest. Pianist Marc Copland's Time Within Time (HATology, 2005) is one such watershed--a sublime solo piano session that transcends mere virtuosity and digs so deeply ...
Fes Jazz Festival: Introducing Swinging Sounds to Moroccans
by AAJ Staff
Fes Jazz Festival 2008Fes, MoroccoNovember 14-16 For various reasons, Fes, Morocco isn't the most obvious place to stage a jazz festival. Unlike Moroccan cities like Tangier, Casablanca and Marrakech, Fes' charms are more ancient than modern or cosmopolitan, as any traveler will discover by visiting the bazaar section of Fes el Bali, one ...
Saxophone and Piano Duets: A Feeling For Someone and Du Fugl
by John Sharpe
Jürg Wickihalder A Feeling For Someone Intakt 2008 Henriette Groth/ Lotte Anker Du Fugl ILK 2008 Piano and saxophone duets are jazz distilled to its bare essentials: one linear ...
Ingrid Laubrock: Sleepthief
by Clifford Allen
Sleepthief is an album in heavy company--as with any lineup featuring saxophones, piano and percussion, it will inevitably be compared with almost four decades of work by the Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio, as well as Cecil Taylor's 1962 trio with Jimmy Lyons and Sunny Murray and perhaps even the Lester Young-Nat King Cole-Buddy Rich trio of ...
Jimmy Greene: The Overcomer's Suite
by David Adler
If you compose a suite kindled by a big idea, it's best to front a band with a big sound. That's what tenor/soprano saxophonist Jimmy Greene does on The Overcomer's Suite, his sixth title as a leader and his first for the digital-only Nu Jazz label. Recorded live at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, the session ...
Lee Konitz & Minsarah: Deep Lee
by Wilbur MacKenzie
Saxophonist Lee Konitz possesses a somewhat austere take on jazz improvisation and who has spent well over half a century finding new ways to express his unique viewpoint. Deep Lee finds him in a quartet with three musicians working together under the name Minsarah. Featuring German pianist Florian Weber, Israeli-born drummer Ziv Ravitz and American bassist ...
Lotte Anker
by Celeste Sunderland
One September evening in 1987, Danish saxophonist Lotte Anker sat among the audience at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine at a tribute concert for one of her heroes, John Coltrane. Two things about that night stand out for her: the reverberation of sound in the massive space and the extraordinary playing of pianist Marilyn ...
Dizzy Gillespie: Showtime at The Spotlite
by George Kanzler
Clark Monroe's Uptown House in Harlem was an incubator of bebop, so it wasn't a surprise that Monroe gave Dizzy Gillespie a venue for reviving his big band at the short-lived (1944 to early 1947) 52nd Street club, The Spotlite, in 1946. Two CDs capture two sets toward the end of that historic engagement in June, ...
Lage Lund: Early Songs
by Terrell Kent Holmes
It's clear from the first notes of guitarist Lage Lund's Early Songs that he's an unwavering acolyte of classic jazz. This excellent quintet recording is an inspired, energetic blend of standards and contemporary tunes grounded in the hard-bop tradition. . Lund displays fire and vibrancy on “You Do Something to Me," playing riffs ...
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