Results for "New York City"

Kenny Werner: With a Song in My Heart

by Ken Dryden
December 13, 2008

Kenny Werner has long been active as a jazz pianist/bandleader, composer and jazz educator, having recorded around two dozen albums as a leader and many more as a sideman. He has performed with quite a few jazz greats, including Charles Mingus, Bob Brookmeyer, Lee Konitz and Toots Thielemans. He's also a sought after pianist by vocalists, ...

Total Music Meeting 2008

by Celeste Sunderland
December 12, 2008

English bassist John Edward's instrument is by no means pristine. Scuffs and scratches sully the top of its belly and the veneer is worn down on its left edge like a badge of improvisational fortitude. He stood on the stage in the auditorium of the Berlinische Galerie one night last month with his bass, two separate ...

RIDD Quartet: Fiction Avalanche

by John Sharpe
December 12, 2008

What makes a great free jazz record? Spirited interplay, unpredictability, extended technique, energy, variety, spontaneous arrangements that defy notation and a sense of structure and purpose are some of the ingredients evoked by the debut disc from the RIDD Quartet. Monikered after their initials, the collective of upcoming New York-based musicians is jointly ...

Jane Ira Bloom, Fred Hersch, Drew Gress at Philoctetes Center on December 14th

December 11, 2008

Soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom, pianist Fred Hersch, & bassist Drew Gress present a performance/ discussion on “Jazz Improvisation: The Art of the Ballad" at The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination in NYC on Sunday Dec 14 at 2:30 pm. The Center is located at 47 East 82nd Street, 
3rd Floor, NYC. Phone: ...

"Johnny Chops" Colianni at Knickerbocker in NYC on January 16-17

December 11, 2008

Tampere Jazz Happening 2008

by Donald Elfman
December 11, 2008

The town of Tampere in Finland grew up as a place of industry--it was called the Manchester of the North--and that sense of incredibly dedicated industry is present in its annual Jazz Happening. The event is just one of many festivals presented in this town of some 200,000 people and is part of a triumvirate of ...

Wayne Shorter: The Soothsayer

by Joel Roberts
December 11, 2008

Wayne Shorter was setting the jazz world on fire at the time of this 1965 Blue Note session, now available as part of the Rudy van Gelder remaster series. The tenor saxophonist had just joined Miles Davis' quintet, with whom he'd go on to make six classic albums, and he'd recently released a milestone album of ...

Bending Towards the Light -- A Jazz Nativity Swings into Birdland December 21-25

December 10, 2008

BENDING TOWARDS THE LIGHT -- A JAZZ NATIVITY, the joyful musical holiday show that warms the hearts of families of all faiths, swings into Birdland (315 West 44th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) for the third consecutive year and will play seven (7) performances beginning Sunday, December 21st. A colorful presentation that delights children as ...

Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio featuring Pharoah Sanders: Ooh Live!

by Jeff Stockton
December 10, 2008

Kahil El'Zabar, a product of Chicago's South Side African-American community, is a true musical renaissance man. By trade, a percussionist who is fluent on conventional Western drums, he has mastered the esoteric and exotic instruments of his ancestors as well. He is a member of Chicago's famed AACM, has played with Dizzy Gillespie and Stevie Wonder, ...

Jobim, Piazzolla, Pixinguinha, Other Jazz-Oriented Composers Celebrated at Juilliard on January 14

December 9, 2008

New York Festival Of Song (NYFOS), whose recent program, “Fugitives," was acclaimed as Profoundly moving, (New York Times) and Extraordinary what we want all concerts to be, (Howard Kissel, New York Daily News) presents its fourth annual program with The Juilliard School on January 14, 2009 at 8 PM, NYFOS@Juilliard: Latin Lovers. This collaboration between NYFOS ...