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Danilo Perez Big Band: Panama Suite
by George Kanzler
Recorded in Boston with students and faculty of both the Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory in the band, this suite by Danilo Perez commemorates five years of the Panama Jazz Festival, where it was also first sold this January. The CD is short, presenting only the quarter-hour suite, described as “a three-movement ...
Buffalo Collision, Ravi Coltrane, Charles McPherson, Ray Anderson and Bob Stewart
by Martin Longley
Buffalo CollisionRoulette 24 March 2008They call their band Buffalo Collision, giving no small hint of their wiry-maned intentions. Two generations of improvisers meet at Roulette, the experimental music space in SoHo. Pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer Dave King are two-thirds of The Bad Plus, who in their youth, were prone to gazing ...
Whit Williams Now's the Time Big Band: Featuring Slide Hampton and Jimmy Heath
by George Kanzler
Here's more proof of the vitality of the regional jazz scene around this country. Veteran saxophonist and jazz educator Whit Williams began this big band in Baltimore in 1981 and over the years it has accompanied Aretha Franklin and played Ellington's “Night Creature" with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Here guests Jimmy Heath (tenor sax) and Slide ...
Meral Guneyman: Playful Virtuosity
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Pianist Meral Guneyman appeared to be slightly nervous when she took the stage recently at the 92nd Street Y's concert “Piano Players: New York Mix." But after a glowing introduction from the show's artistic director Dick Hyman, she launched into a powerful solo version of “The Clothed Woman," one of several Ellington classics she played that ...
Mayim Rabim to Represent Brooklyn at the Best of the Boroughs Festival
“The stunning Gottlieb possesses a powerful voice, using it with authority, soaring over the beautifully voiced chorus of four." JazzTimes “Powerfully straddles jazz, cantorial and the avant-garde... Mayim Rabim succeeds both musically and conceptually, one of the years finest vocal releases." --All About Jazz Jerusalem-born Ayelet Rose Gottlieb's song cycle is composed to erotic poetry from ...
Marcus Goldhaber Live @ Sugar Bar on Tuesday, April 15th - 8PM & 10PM - And a New Album on the Way
New York, NY--On Tuesday, April 15th, Marcus Goldhaber will perform at Ashford & Simpson's Sugar Bar on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. This concert will feature new material and preview a few tracks from his upcoming album, TAKE ME. At this performance, Marcus will team up once again with The Jon Davis Trio: Martin Wind, ...
Giacomo Gates: Luminosity
by George Kanzler
In the DVD interview and introductions to tunes on both discs, Giacomo Gates mentions a lot of the usual suspects as influences: Sinatra, Crosby, Jon Hendricks and Betty Carter. But names like Babs Gonzales, Jackie Paris, Cab Calloway and Lord Buckley suggest that Gates is in touch with a deeper tradition, that he likes the hustlers, ...
Burton Greene: Bloom in the Commune
by Marc Medwin
In one of the interviews that flesh out this new reissue, pianist Burton Greene states that while he doesn't often listen to a record once it's done, his first date for ESP sounds quite fresh. Bloom in the Commune (originally released simply as Quartet but now retitled via the first track of the original B side) ...
Libby York: Here With You
by Suzanne Lorge
Libby York has the rich, rounded kind of voice that evokes another time--a time when it was Rosemary (not George) and there were only two kinds of martini (gin or vodka). York's new CD, Here With You, covers traditional territory with a surety that gives the material renewed relevance: York feels the swing or the bossa ...
Vibraphonist Tom Beckham at Brooklyn Lyceum Wednesday, April 9
Wednesday Jazz at the BROOKLYN LYCEUM WHO: Tom Beckham Quartet featuring: Tom Beckham -Vibraphone Chris Cheek - Saxes Matt Clohesy - Bass Gorge Schuller - Drums WHEN: Wednesday, April 9th 8pm - 2 sets! $10 WHERE: Brooklyn Lyceum ...
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