Results for "New York City"

Roy Hargrove: Earfood

by Tom Greenland
September 10, 2008

Trumpeter Roy Hargrove's 15th release, Earfood, is one of his best, showing that this not-so-young lion is in top shape. The disc features Justin Robinson (alto/flute), Gerald Clayton (piano), Danton Boller (bass) and Montez Coleman (drums), with Robinson's gushing alto ebullience, slightly loose around the edges, the perfect foil for Hargrove's eclectic moods, which range from ...

Fight The Big Bull: Dying Will Be Easy

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
September 10, 2008

Fight the Big Bull describes itself on MySpace as “champions of curiosity." This candid qualifier is doubly introspective because it denotes both the whimsy and the intellectual maturity of Dying Will Be Easy. The Richmond-based nonet, who played at New York City's Issue Project Room Aug. 6, 2008, is led by guitarist Matt White, who also ...

5th Anniversary of New School Jazz at Sweet Rhythm: Jamire Williams and the Eri-Maj Group

September 9, 2008

Described as spiritual, experimental, and “music for the struggle," Jamire Williams and the Eri-Maj Group includes Logan Richardson on alto sax, Corey King on trombone, Matthew Stevens on guitar, Fabian Almazan on piano, Alan Hampton on bass, and alumnus Jamire Williams on drums. Monday, September 15, 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Sweet Rhythm 88 Seventh Avenue ...

Jonathan Russell Named One of Tomorrow's Newsmakers

September 9, 2008

Jonathan Russell, 13-year-old jazz violinist, has been named one of five finalist in 1010 WINS Tomorrow's Newsmaker contest. Jonathan's achievements that garnered the judges attention include an Ambassador's Award from the U.S. Embassy in Hungary, the release of two CD's and performances throughout the United States. Most recently Jonathan was engaged to perform three nights with ...

Robin McKelle: Modern Antique

by Marcia Hillman
September 9, 2008

Robin McKelle knows fine ways to treat a song. Once again, as in her debut Introducing Robin McKelle (Cheap Lullaby, 2006), her vocal ability and flexibility sparkles as she sings, scats and swings with a big band behind her. This time, however, she shows more rhythm and blues touches and also captures an old-fashioned torch song ...

Marc Edwards & Slipstream Time Travel: Ode to a Dying Planet

by John Sharpe
September 9, 2008

Since the '60s space travel has served as a metaphor for the abstraction of free jazz expressionism, with Sun Ra being only the most obvious antecedent. Drummer Marc Edwards draws inspiration from astronomy as much as science fiction, aided and abetted by guitarists Tor Snyder and Ernest Anderson III and multi-instrumentalist Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut, featured here ...

Jaimoe's Jasssz Band

September 8, 2008

Invitation to New York Public Library Duke Jazz Series Opening Concert with the Dafnis Prieto Sextet

September 8, 2008

Over the next year and a half, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Duke Jazz Series will present eight free concerts, featuring jazz ensembles selected from the Chamber Music Americas New Works program. This series is part of the two-year Library for the Performing Arts project funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation ...

Community Works NYC Announces New Theater Season

September 8, 2008

Community Works, a trailblazer in arts education, announces its 2008-2009 Theater Connections calendar of events. Its eighteenth year of arts programming will present a spectacular line-up of over 130 events featuring multi-cultural dance companies, musical artists, poets and performers at 13 sites citywide. All performances are low cost, and average seven dollars per person. Performing sites ...

Noah Preminger: Dry Bridge Road

by Stuart Broomer
September 8, 2008

This is Noah Preminger's recording debut and it's an impressive one for the 22-year-old tenor saxophonist, who carries recommendations from players as forceful as Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone and Dave Liebman. It's not just technique that distinguishes Preminger; it's the quality of his musical thought, the depth of his interaction and his sense of a broader ...