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Brooklyn Boogaloo Blowout Releases the Knickerbocker 7"

December 25, 2008

The Brooklyn Boogaloo Blowout has released a brand new, 2 song, 7" vinyl only album. “The Knickerbocker 7"" is available only on vinyl or via digital download. Side A features Leah Siegel singing the classic “I Got Loaded" with killer solos from special guest J Walter Hawkes on trombone and Andrew Sherman's B3. Side B is ...

Wayne Escoffery: Hopes and Dreams

by George Kanzler
December 25, 2008

There's a distinguished history of tenor saxophonist and vibes player combos in jazz, including Lucky Thompson/Milt Jackson and Harold Land/Bobby Hutcherson. But those combos featured bands with piano. Tenor Wayne Escoffery and vibraphonist Joe Locke put more emphasis on their teamwork by eliminating the piano in Escoffery's Veneration quartet--quintet on three tracks featuring guest trumpeter Tom ...

Medeski Martin and Wood: Zaebos: Book of Angels, Vol. 11

by Graham L. Flanagan
December 25, 2008

Just take a moment to absorb this disc's exhausting title; yeah... this probably isn't what you should pick up after drawing the name of your Erskine Hawkins-loving grandpa when figuring out whose Secret Santa you're going to be; that is, unless said grandpa has a penchant for atonal, acid-tinged klezmer-jazz. Hey, you never know. To the ...

Hanukkah Receives Kosher Pop New York Welcome

December 24, 2008

Matisyahu, the kosher-pop singer, welcomes Hanukkah with his Festival of Lights series, which continues this week and next at Webster Hall in the East Village and the Music Hall of Williamsburg, in Brooklyn. Matisyahu deployed what may be the only large, mirrored, rotating dreidel in show business — a Jewish answer to a disco ball — ...

Richard Bliwas Performs on Paula's Party

December 24, 2008

Fresh Sound-New Talent

by Laurel Gross
December 24, 2008

Fresh Sound-New Talent owner and founder Jordi Pujol lives in Barcelona where his label is based but he's been up all night following the US Presidential election. Speaking from his native Spain the “morning after," he expresses the hope that the selection of President Elect Barack Obama might bode well not only for America but Europe ...

Sheila Jordan: Winter Sunshine

by Marcia Hillman
December 24, 2008

Sheila Jordan has reasons to celebrate: her 80th birthday, a new record company connection and this new CD release, her 21st album under her own name. Taped live at a Montreal jazz club in February of this year, Jordan is joined by a trio of Steve Amirault (piano), Kieran Overs (bass) and Andre ...

Albert Rivera Trio to Feature Master Drummer Ralph Peterson This Weekend in NYC!!

December 22, 2008

Saxophonist Albert Rivera will be joined with drummer Ralph Peterson for two shows at The River Room Of Harlem on December 26th and 27th and show time starts at 7:30 p.m Mr.Peterson was featured early this year on Albert's debut recording “Re-Introduction" (Turnaround Records) along with Christian Scott, Luques Curtis, Zaccai Curtis, Jimmy Greene, Nick Roseboro ...

Handels Sacred Arias Intimate and Affirming

December 22, 2008

Christine Brewer, a leading dramatic soprano who will sing Brnnhilde in the Metropolitan Operas production of Wagners Ring this spring, does not leap to mind as a Handel interpreter. So the prospect of hearing her sing sacred arias by Handel in the final concert of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centers annual Baroque Festival was ...

Holiday Spectacular Dinner Theater "Sleigh Bells Swing' Show Rivals Anything on Broadway

December 22, 2008

The Edison Ballroom 228 West 47th Street (between 8th & Broadway) New York, NY 10036 212-201-7650 Reservations Required A hip Big Band show, just off Times Square, George Gee’s 22 tuxedoed musicians back the Singin' Sleigh Belles gals, a Sinatra clone singer, a sexy vocalist, a tap dancer ...