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Jon Faddis, Ralph Lalama & NY Improv Collective to Perform with Jazz Students at New York's Town Hall
Alongside jazz headliners Jon Faddis, Ralph Lalama, and New York Improv Collective, Central Connecticut State University Jazz Ensemble (Carl W. Knox, director) and California's Vanguard University Jazz Ensemble (Kenneth R. Foerch, director) will perform at New York's Town Hall on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at 8 p.m. “Jazz at Town Hall," a new series presented by ...
Chris Byars: Pictures at an Exhibition of Himalayan Art
by Elliott Simon
While its mission is the preservation of Himalayan art, NYC's Rubin Museum continues to produce an excellent concert series in collaboration with the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. The series has developed into a forum for artists to perform new projects in a singularly spiritual setting. Saxophonist Chris Byars has in effect written a soundtrack for ...
Happy Apple: Happy Apple Back on Top
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Before becoming synonymous with self-indulgent excess--or worse, smoothed-out pap--fusion offered the excitement of joining jazz improvisation and harmonic sophistication with rock energy and driving rhythms. Though they may not self-identify with fusion, a growing number of musicians raised on both rock and jazz feel no compunction in drawing influences from and blending both. One such group ...
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
by Jim Santella
Founded in 2003, Carla Bley's quartet The Lost Chords interprets her music with emotional depth and superior musicianship. By adding guest trumpeter Paolo Fresu for this session, she has stumbled on a formula that emphasizes camaraderie and spirit-sharing. The five artists fuse well together through blues, ballads, lyrical arias and the occasional ruckus. Far from predictable, ...
Vision Festival XIII Performers Announced
Arts for Art, Inc. has announced the line-up for the 13th annual Vision Festival, New York's premier multidisciplinary celebration of avantjazz music, poetry, dance and art, which will run from Tuesday, June 10th through Sunday, June 15th at Manhattan's Clemente Solo Velez Cultural Center. Vision Festival XIII will present more than 50 events, including music and ...
Meredith Borden Talks About Promoting the Blue Apple Blues (Bab) Festival
The Big Apple is a long way from Mississippi delta, and it's not often associated with the blues. Meredith “Babe" Borden and her musical partner, Jon Catler aim to change that. April 3rd, a Thursday, they will be hosting what they hope will become an annual event. This is when they will bring together four of ...
Marc Copland / Gary Peacock / Bill Stewart at Birdland, NYC
by Budd Kopman
Marc Copland/Gary Peacock/Bill Stewart at Birdland, NYCBirdlandNew York City, New YorkMarch 20, 2008 However much we might wish that jazz, or indeed any art, be devoid of any relationship to economics, the the numerous extra-musical things that go into making a record, from promoting it to setting up a gig, ...
Hans Blix + Asiko at the Delancy April 12th
Hans Blix + Asiko @ The Delancey * 168 Delancey (Btwn Clinton and Attorney) New York, NY April 12th * 10pm, $8 Hans Blix, a trio of improvised madness, will be bringing their unique sound to The Delancey on April 12th. The trio crafts full songs ...
Andrew Rathbun at the Manhattan School of Music, NYC
by Budd Kopman
Andrew Rathbun at The Manhattan School of Music, NYCManhattan School of MusicNew York City, NYMarch 19, 2008 Saxophonist Andrew Rathbun, as part of his fulfillment of the requirements for his Doctorate in Musical Arts, performed and conducted his own compositions at the Ades Performance Space, employing two ensembles. Although the ...
New School Jazz Presents Brazilian Jazz at Dizzy's
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC PRESENTS THE NEW SCHOOL BRAZILIAN JAZZ ENSEMBLE AT DIZZY'S CLUB COCA COLA April 7, 2008, 7:30 p.m., at Jazz at Lincoln Center WHAT: The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music presents an evening of Brazilian Jazz at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club Coca- Cola. ...
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