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Benny Powell: Nextep
by Andrew Velez
A whiff of glorious, old-time New Orleans jazz in “Free to be Me" jubilantly launches trombonist Benny Powell's Nextep. Yet be assured the set is no trip down nostalgia lane. A working musician since his early teens in New Orleans, bop loyalist and veteran sideman at hundreds of recording sessions with the likes of everyone from ...
Cedar Walton: Seasoned Wood
by Andrew Velez
Seasoned is an apt term for Cedar Walton who, at 72, continues to dazzle, refresh and satisfy with his keyboard artistry. Among several of his compositions included in Seasoned Wood, “Clockwise" is a bit of unusual waltz-time magic from which gradations of application spill from his keyboard, chiseled and burnished, as drummer Al Foster lends dazzling ...
Ken Peplowski Gypsy Jazz Band: Gypsy Lamento
by Martin Longley
This is a gypsy combo of the Django Reinhardt persuasion, rather than being fully-crazed wedding party cacophony. In fact, reedman Ken Peplowski makes matters even more specialized by concentrating on a preponderance of slow plodders rather than the frenetic hurtling that many gypsy jazz guitar outfits now prefer. The album's cover is slightly strange. Two pseudo-brides ...
Liza Minnelli Onstage: Resistance is Futile
Liza Minnelli performs “Liza's at the Palace," at the historic vaudeville theater in New York City. Liza is still somebody's idea of entertainment. Witness the frenzied scene a few nights ago at Broadway's Palace Theatre, where Liza is doing a one-woman show through Jaunary 4. For one thing, she looks a lot better on a theater ...
Dave Allen Quartet at 55 Bar on December 14th
Dave Allen Quartet with: Mark Shim Drew Gress Ted Poor 10pm "Dave Allen is one of a number of spitfire jazz guitarists raising the bar on that ever- popular instrument. But Allen offers more than battle-ready chops—his Untold Stories and Real ...
Patrizia Scascitelli CD Release Party at the Italian Cultural Institute in NYC on January 21st
PILOO RECORDS presents: Patrizia Scascitelli Sextet New CD Release Concert Wednesday, Jan. 21th / 2009 @ 7:00 pm Italian Cultural Institute 686 Park Ave ( @ 69th St.) $ 10 Patrizia Scascitelli / piano and compositions Jamie Baum / flute ...
Rez Abbasi and R.O.C. Trio Grounded in Folk Tradition and Jazz Improvisation
Sounds Mixed and Matched Indo-Pak Coalition, a trio equally grounded in folk tradition and jazz improvisation, proposes a social pact as well a musical ideal. The groups name is partly self-descriptive the alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa is of Indian descent, while the guitarist Rez Abbasi was born in Pakistan but it also carries an ...
Jason Moran
by Martin Longley
Pianist Jason Moran usually plays well within the jazz tradition, but often adopts a sideways slant, open to electronic interference or maybe an askew cover version of a pop or rap tune. Growing up in Houston, he went on to study at the Manhattan School Of Music, becoming firmly entrenched on the New York scene.
Jessica Williams
by Thomas Conrad
It is hard to think of a jazz musician who has gone her own way more resolutely than pianist Jessica Williams. She works only on her own solo and trio projects, never as a sideperson. She engineers her own albums for her own label, Red and Blue, and sells them on her own website, which she ...
Avishai Cohen: Flood
by Jim Santella
In a suite of original compositions subtitled “Part Two of the Big Rain Trilogy," trumpeter Avishai Cohen's pure, sweet trumpet tone and bent notes allow him to create sound pictures that depict gentle raindrops, a giant deluge, the eventual overflow and final sunshine to complete the cycle. Since his songscape relies on personal expression, the instrumentation ...
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