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News: Performance / Tour

Ian Anthony the Band @ The Yippie Museum

Ian Anthony the Band @ The Yippie Museum

The Yippie Museum is chartered by the Board of Regents of New York State and exists to preserve the history of the Youth International Party and all of its offshoots. The Yippie Museum Cafe is dedicated to bringing you the best in a wide variety of musical talent. Everyone who plays there wants to come back ...

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Article: Album Review

Connie Crothers / Bill Payne: Conversations

Read "Conversations" reviewed by Marc Medwin

by Marc Medwin

Connie Crothers is one of the most versatile pianists on a scene that is so often mislabeled free jazz. Her pianism has been cultivated through long years of study and deep listening, evident in each tone, chord and gesture. Overwhelming intensity, at whatever volume, is juxtaposed with transparent beauty in a style that is as unique ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Globe Unity Orchestra: Globe Unity - 40 Years

Read "Globe Unity Orchestra: Globe Unity - 40 Years" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin

Globe Unity Orchestra Globe Unity - 40 Years Intakt Records 2008 A month shy of the 40th anniversary of Alexander von Schlippenbach's monumental album Globe Unity (SABA, 1966), the German pianist brought together a modern edition of this freewheeling large ensemble for a concert at the 2006 Berlin ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Trombonopia!: Bill Cantrall, David Gibson & Matt Haviland

Read "Trombonopia!: Bill Cantrall, David Gibson & Matt Haviland" reviewed by Fred Bouchard

by Fred Bouchard

Bill CantrallAxiomUp Swing2008 David GibsonG-RaysNagel Heyer2008 Matt HavilandBeyond Good and EvilConnotation2008 Three trombone-playing leaders here afford themselves plush settings for some pretty ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Eivind Opsvik: Overseas III; Koptor & This That

Read "Eivind Opsvik: Overseas III; Koptor & This That" reviewed by Wilbur MacKenzie

by Wilbur MacKenzie

Eivind OpsvikOverseas IIILoyal Label2008 Kevin BrowKoptorFresh Sound-New Talent2008 Jesse StackenThis ThatFresh Sound-New Talent2008 The third release by Eivind Opsvik's Overseas project puts ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Mark Dresser: The Beautiful Enabler & Point of Contact

Read "Mark Dresser: The Beautiful Enabler & Point of Contact" reviewed by Wilbur MacKenzie

by Wilbur MacKenzie

MaugerThe Beautiful EnablerClean Feed2008 Bob and Ellen WellerPoint of ContactCircumvention Music2008 In the few years since his departure from daily life in New York, bassist Mark Dresser's activities have been ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Paul Motian: Voices and Portrait in Jazz

Read "Paul Motian: Voices and Portrait in Jazz" reviewed by Francis Lo Kee

by Francis Lo Kee

Marc CoplandNew York Trio Recordings Vol. 2: VoicesPirouet2008 Bill EvansPortrait in JazzRiverside-Concord2008 Paul Motian is a catalytic musician. His imaginative playing shapes the sound of a project in a way ...

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News: Recording

Wu Fei new Release "Yuan" out November 25th

Wu Fei new Release "Yuan" out November 25th

Wu Fei has composed music for solo instruments, string quartets, choirs, orchestras, modern and traditional dance, film and chamber ensembles. Performing on guzheng since the age of six, she studied composition at the China Conservatory and with Fred Frith at Mills College. She has since collaborated with Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt, Joelle Leandre, Meredith ...

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Article: Profile

Steve Grossman

Read "Steve Grossman" reviewed by Laurel Gross

by Laurel Gross

Saxophonist Steve Grossman hasn't been a regular on the New York scene for many years but a crash-- course sampling of the many sessions he has recorded--with the likes of Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Barry Harris and Michel Petrucciani for starters as well as under his name as a soloist and with his own ...

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Article: Album Review

Marian McPartland: Twilight World

Read "Twilight World" reviewed by Graham L. Flanagan

by Graham L. Flanagan

Jazz icon Marian McPartland turned 90 years young in March, 2008, and the special occasion produced an all-star party at Dizzy's Club in New York. National Public Radio has made some of the performance available online as part of the legendary pianist's weekly radio series Piano Jazz, an institution since 1979. As if 2008 couldn't be ...


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