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News: Event

Free Jazz Concerts at Waterside Plaza in Manhattan

June 17, 2008

WHAT: Free Outdoor Jazz Concerts WHERE: Waterside Plaza (Manhattan) WHEN: Saturday June 21, from 2-9PM ADMISSION: FREE & Open-to-the-public Waterside Plaza hosts several jazz groups on three stages as part of the city-wide Make Music New York Festival. Enjoy music on a beautifully-landscaped plaza with waterfront-views. Food vendors, a restaurant ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Will Sellenraad Trio @ Smalls 6/17 Feat: Kiyoshi Kitagawa & Eric McPherson

June 17, 2008

WHO: Will Sellenraad Trio Will Sellenraad - guitar Kiyoshi Kitagawa- bass Eric McPherson- drums WHEN: TUESDAY, June 17th 7:30pm-9:30pm WHERE: SMALLS JAZZ CLUB 183 W. 10th St. @ 7th Ave. Sheridan Square, NYC 212.929.9883 ...

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News: Event

Kate McGarry Quartet, KJ Denhert, Howard Fishman at "Summer on the Hudson"

June 17, 2008

Summer On the Hudson, one of New York City's largest free summer festivals, continues its eighth season with a summer of unique contemporary music events at Riverside Park South, including the Kate McGarry Quartet, KJ Denhert and Howard Fishman's Biting Fish Brass Band on its July 13-August 24 “Acoustic Sundays" series. Summer On The Hudson is ...

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News: Performance / Tour

The Banda Eclectics Live at Osarthouse-NYC

June 17, 2008

FRIDAY, JUNE 20 8:00-9:30pm The BandA ecLectics is an 11-piece ensemble consisting of musicians with jazz, world and classical music tendencies and affiliations. These professional musicians will be performing this coming Thursday two 40-minute sets of original compositions with a fresh and unique sound, at the OSArthouse, in New York City. The musical material ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Birdland Announces July 2008 Schedule

June 16, 2008

Birdland (315 West 44th Street - between 8th & 9th Aves.) is pleased to announce an exciting line-up of extraordinary entertainment for the month of July. A detailed schedule follows: Lew Tabackin Quartet - featuring Toshiko Akiyoshi Lew Tabackin is one of the few jazz musicians who maintains a dual musical personality. As a tenor saxophonist, ...

News: Performance / Tour

Ray Vega Latin Jazz Quintet Perform at Louis Armstrong House Museum

June 16, 2008

Ray Vega Latin Jazz Quintet to Perform July 8 at Free Jazzmobile Concert at Louis Armstrong House Museum Louis Armstrong was famous for practicing trumpet on his balcony to the delight of his neighbors in the decidedly working-class neighborhood of Corona, Queens. Continuing the tradition, the Louis Armstrong House Museum is pleased to present Ray Vega ...

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Article: Album Review

Albert Ayler: New York Eye and Ear Control

Read "New York Eye and Ear Control" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen
June 15, 2008

Even in a form of music as decidedly left-of-center as “free jazz," a canon of musicians and works has been built. This canon is essentially based upon easily-obtainable recordings rather than a history that falls to documents, primary sources and musical meetings that went commercially unrecorded. A case in point: American creative large ensembles of the ...

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Article: Opinion

Improvisation...Like The Weather

by AAJ Staff
June 15, 2008

By Jane Ira Bloom I thought I would talk about improvising and I should say that I'd try to talk about it because words are often difficult for me. My performance world is sonic; more poetry than prose, more like the weather than the forecast--more pliable and less specific--cloud-like and always shifting shape. ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

In Memoriam: Jimmy Giuffre (1921-2008)

by AAJ Staff
June 15, 2008

Jimmy was quite an addition to my life. He was kind of a father figure to me, especially since my old man split when I was seven. I learned so much from Jimmy musically. For instance, if he had written something and he wanted the melody phrased a certain way, he would say, “Try to make ...

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Article: Film Review

Hardcore Chambermusic: A Club for 30 Days

by A. Henkin
June 14, 2008

Koch-Schuetz-Studer Ensemble Hardcore Chambermusic: A Club for 30 Days A film by Peter Liechti Intakt 2007 The film Hardcore Chambermusic has a score that's less typical narrative movie music than nature documentary supportive music. The trio of Hans Koch (reeds, electronics), Martin Schuetz (cello, electronics) and ...