Results for "New York City"

The Dream of the Ants Perform in Brooklyn

January 17, 2009

On February 5 the chamber ensemble, The Dream of the Ants, will make its first performance of the new year. The performance will take place at the Brooklyn based art space, Issue Project Room. The ensemble, led by guitarist Terrence McManus, will perform the new work, The Machine, which is inspired by the music of Morton ...

Giorgio Dini New Ruby Flower Records Artist Director

January 17, 2009

Ruby Flower Records is pleased to welcome Giorgio Dini as its new Consultant and Artistic Director. Dini brings to Ruby Flower Records a broad range of experience in the independent music industry as well as a history of successful partnerships with some of the world's leading jazz musicians. Dini's widely considered a talented and respected bass ...

Jeremy Manasia After Dark CD Release Party

January 17, 2009

Noah Howard: The Black Ark

by Kurt Gottschalk
January 17, 2009

Noah Howard's 1969 album The Black Ark has, in an unintended way, lived up to its name in recent years. It has become, to free jazz obsessives, a sort of Ark of the Covenant, a fabled and much sought after grail and jazz message boards lit up when it was announced that the British label Bo'Weavil ...

Omer Klein: Introducing Omer Klein

by Elliott Simon
January 17, 2009

New York's Smalls club has been the launching pad for an inordinate amount of jazz artists that belies its diminutive square footage. One segment of their territory is an Israeli-American jazz connection that has produced a culture of premier artists who have gone on to influence the broader jazz community. Pianist Omer Klein is part of ...

Jay D'Amico: Tuscan Prelude

by Francis Lo Kee
January 17, 2009

Tuscan Prelude is Jay D'Amico's fourth recording as a leader. Though talk of a combination of classical music and jazz might conjure up sonic images of the Modern Jazz Quartet, a comparison to John Lewis, wouldn't do credit to either D'Amico or Lewis, in spite of the fact that both have a fast, accurate, but delicate ...

Craig Taborn Holding Jazz Electronica to a Higher Standard

January 16, 2009

The commingling of jazz and electronic music has produced a lot of mutant offspring in recent years, much of it marred by a lack of balance or focus. Craig Taborn, a keyboardist of exploratory temperament, is one of a handful of American musicians bringing steady refinement to the field. Five years ago he released Junk Magic ...

Richard Bliwas Performs at Googie's Lounge (Upstairs from the Living Room)

January 16, 2009

Please come to The Living Room/Googie's Lounge located at 154 Ludlow Street New York , NY, 10002 January 26h at 7pm for a one hour set of innovative beautiful music. The pianist ---now finishing up artwork for his soon to be released 6th CD for Rising Rose Records --- has been compared to Brian Wilson, Miles ...

A Violinist in the Metro

January 15, 2009

A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousand of people went through the station, most of them on ...

Fred Herschs Club Jazz Between Old Fashions and New Tastes

January 15, 2009

Most small-group jazz combines composition and improvisation, and one is generally losing the battle against the other. Thats fine; its part of what gives a band its character. But in Fred Herschs music, which he plays as part of a quintet at the Village Vanguard this week, the two elements are balanced pretty perfectly. Mr. Hersch, ...