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Cynthia Basinet Petitions the United Nations
Sixty-second General Assembly Fourth Committee on behalf of issues facing the Western Sahara. From the UN official site: “CYNTHIA BASINET, singer and actress, said that the international community had a moral responsibility as steward of the Saharawi people, and that a shift in heart and not just policy was required. Anaemia, diabetes, tuberculosis, stunting and acute ...
Battle of the Bands
by AAJ Staff
By John Clayton If true battles were fought the way some people imagine the Clayton-Hamilton and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra are to duke it out this month (more on the “other" Duke in a moment), we might just be a world with fewer global conflicts. What you will witness, ...
Daryl Sherman: New O'leans
by Ken Dryden
Singer/pianist Daryl Sherman has been a fixture on the Manhattan music scene for years, playing various clubs since her arrival in 1974 and ending a 14-year run at the Waldorf-Astoria earlier this year. New O’Leans is her tribute to the survival spirit of the Crescent City’s residents, still present after the devastation of Hurricane ...
Wayne Horvitz & Sweeter Than The Day: A Walk In The Dark
by Martin Longley
This cumbersomely-named combo have been together for nearly a decade, just one of keyboardist Wayne Horvitz's many band projects. The concept appears to revolve around a desire to embrace an almost-acoustic modern traditionalism, while retaining a slightly skewed stance that recalls some of Horvitz's earlier forays into electro-groove. Lately, he appears to have forsaken ...
Lester Young: The Lester Young/Count Basie Sessions 1936-1940
by AAJ Staff
By Duck Baker No doubt most of the people buying this box know that the music it contains is necessary to any serious jazz collection (if not to life itself). But to spell it out for any who haven't got the word yet, Count Basie's pre-war band epitomized that core quality in jazz called ...
"The Story" at Cachaca October 23rd
WHO: “The Story" featuring: Lars Dietrich (a.sax) Samir Zarif (t.sax) John Escreet (piano) Zack Lober (e&a bass) Greg Ritchie (drums) WHEN: Thursday, October 23rd at 10PM WHERE: Cachaca Jazz Club 35 W 8th St New York, NY 10011 Don't miss the performance of a ...
The Donny McCaslin Trio at the Jazz Standard, NYC
by Budd Kopman
The Donny McCaslin Trio at The Jazz StandardThe Jazz StandardNew York City, New YorkSeptember 30, 2008 Saxophonist Donny McCaslin took the stage this night with his trio, bassist Ricky Rodriguez and drummer Ted Poor, and proceeded to blow up a mighty storm of great music in a format that ...
Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page
by Francis Lo Kee
Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page Todd Bryant Weeks Hardcover; 320 pages ISBN: 0415990777 Routledge 2008 Almost any book on trumpeter Hot Lips Page (1908-1954) would, of course, be welcome in the library of jazz scholarship, ...
Kenny Burrell: Kenny Burrell 75th Birthday Bash Live!
by Andrew Velez
This 75th birthday bash for and with guitar master Kenny Burrell brought together his quintet with Hammond B3 maestro Joey DeFrancesco and flute virtuoso Hubert Laws as special guests. As if that wasn’t juice enough for an evening, for the first half dozen sides of this gala, Burrell had an historic meeting with the ...
Shirley Horn Trio: Live At the 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival
by Joel Roberts
No jazz singer ever sang as softly and slowly and with such subtle command as Shirley Horn. Her voice often just above a whisper, she forced audiences to hush up and pay attention as she delivered lyrics without flash or pretense, but with a knowing sense of life lived and dues paid.
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