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LIU Faculty Concert Tuesday, April 10 at 4:00 PM (Free Admission)

April 9, 2007

SPRING 2007 FACULTY CONCERT @ LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY'S BROOKLYN CAMPUS On Tuesday, April 10 at 4:00 PM, the LIU Jazz Studies Department will present their annual faculty concert at the Kumble Theater (located in the Humanities Building on Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus.) The concert will feature songs from the Great American Songbook, along with original ...

Sten Hostfalt & Bruno Raberg Live NYC April 13

April 9, 2007

Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters at Bowery Poetry Club NYC Friday April 13th 10PM

April 9, 2007

GARY LUCAS & GODS AND MONSTERS at BOWERY POETRY CLUB NYC FRIDAY, APRIL 13th,10PM 308 BOWERY (corner of Bleecker) $15 Featuring ERNIE BROOKS (Modern Lovers) on bass, BILLY FICCA (Television) on drums, and JASON CANDLER (Hungry March Band) on alto sax “An underground rock fan's dream team"--The New Yorker “Gary Lucas is one of the best ...

Tiff Jimber at Jazz Central, Syracuse NY, April 15

April 9, 2007

Anthony Braxton: 9 Compositions

by Marc Medwin
April 9, 2007

It is the MO of this listener/writer, or, as Anthony Braxton puts it, this “friendly experiencer, to attempt to bring the reader into individual moments of a performance. The present set does not allow such an approach, or, rather, it renders the approach superfluous. Here, we are presented with almost ten hours of music in which, ...

Pablo Aslan: Buenos Aires Tango Standards

by Ivana Ng
April 9, 2007

The bass is usually an accompanying instrument, but in Buenos Aires Tango Standards, bassist and native Argentinean Pablo Aslan presents the instrument prominently to convey the stealth and sensuality of tango music. When Aslan returned to his native Buenos Aires in 2005 after living in the US for twenty-five years, he found what ...

Michael Stephans: OM/ShalOM

by AAJ Staff
April 9, 2007

Some may associate a certain repetitive quality with Jewish melodies--they're either upbeat and highly rhythmic, or almost mournful pieces more suitable for listening than dancing. In some cases they're both. Drummer Michael Stephans adds to this two- dimensional notion on OM/ShalOM, his very personal and well-rounded new self-released project, what might have been a prime candidate ...

Annie Ross April 10 at the Metropolitan Room

April 8, 2007

Jazz legend Annie Ross continues her run of Tuesdays at the Metropolitan Room At Gotham New York's newest and best music room 34 West 22nd St. (between 5th & 6th Ave.) New York City Reservations (212)206-0440 Next Appearance April 10th @ 7:00 PM

Still Some Room in Tritone Jazz Camps

April 8, 2007

The ever-popular Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camps will be held once again at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY June 24-30 and at Bjorklunden in Baileys Harbor, WI July 29-Aug. 4, 2007. Tritone camps offer adult (over 21) jazz players and singers of any ability the opportunity to learn jazz improvisation from some of the country's finest players ...

Billie Holiday: God Bless The Child: The Very Best Of Billie Holiday & Masters of Jazz

by Suzanne Lorge
April 8, 2007

Billie Holiday began singing professionally in the early 1930s and toured and recorded until her death in 1959. Her only hiatus from performing came during a 10-month stay at the Federal Woman's Reformatory in Alederton, West Virginia for drug possession in 1947. Her story reveals the symbiosis between personal pain and early jazz, and that story ...