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Harlem Speaks Education Initiative Starts Its 3rd Season This Saturday, 3/3/07
Harlem Speaks Education Initiative starts its 3rd season this Saturday, 3/3/07 There are a handful of slots left for students aged 11-18 years old. If you know anyone who may be interested, email [email protected] immediately to reserve a space. Harlem Speaks Education Initiative is a jazz history program that The Jazz Museum in Harlem, in partnership ...
Skip Wilkins: Skip Wilkins Quintet, Vol. I
by Tom Greenland
Pianist/composer/bandleader Skip Wilkins is a talented musician working out of Eastern Pennsylvania, where he teaches at the Williams Center of the Arts in Easton in addition to making gigs in Philadelphia, the Poconos and New York City. He's recorded several albums with flutist Jill Allen and has compiled, over the years, an impressive catalog of original ...
Dan Willis: Velvet Gentlemen
by Jim Santella
Taking its title from a pet nickname that was applied to composer Erik Satie by children in his neighborhood, Velvet Gentlemen features multi-instrumentalist Dan Willis with a modern mainstream sextet, freely interpreting eleven original pieces. The band covers a lot of territory. The leader plays eleven woodwind instruments on the session, including tenor and soprano saxophones, ...
Edward Simon Trio John Pattucci and Brian Blade Mar. 1-4 at the Iridium Jazz Club
IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 8:30 & 10:30PM, Fri. & Sat. 3rd Sets AT MIDNIGHT March 1-4 EDWARD SIMON TRIO FEAT. JOHN PATTUCCI AND BRIAN BLADE “Mr. Simon's touch, light and warm, allows for his music to ...
New CDs by Saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, Percussionist Sammy Figueroa and Vocalist Pamela Luss Set for March 13th Release on Savant Records
(New York, NY - February 28, 2007) Savant Records announces the March 13th release of new CDs by saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, percussionist Sammy Figueroa and vocalist Pamela Luss. Wayne Escoffery makes an authoritative Savant debut with Veneration (SCD 2081), recorded live in June 2006 at the New York City jazz club Smoke ...
Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters with the Du-Tels @ Bowery Poetry Club NYC Fri. March 2nd
GARY LUCAS & GODS AND MONSTERS with THE DU-TELS AT BOWERY POETRY CLUB NYC FRIDAY MARCH 2nd 308 BOWERY (CORNER OF BLEECKER ST.) 8:00 pm $15 GODS AND MONSTERS ARE: GARY LUCAS--guitars, vocals ERNIE BROOKS-- bass, vocals BILLY FICCA--drums JASON CANDLER--alto sax “The band ...
Charles Tolliver: With Love
by Joel Roberts
Charles Tolliver burst onto the scene in the '60s as a young trumpet player to be reckoned with, appearing on seminal Blue Note albums by the likes of Jackie McLean, Horace Silver and Andrew Hill. He later fronted the adventurous Music Inc. quartet and founded his own label, Strata East, with pianist Stanley Cowell, before more ...
Selwyn Lissack: Friendship Next of Kin
by Terrell Kent Holmes
South African drummer Selwyn Lissack returned to the New York jazz scene for the first time in over thirty years this past December, playing a one-nighter at the Stone to celebrate the reissue of Friendship Next of Kin (1969), his only album as a leader--and an underground classic. Friendship is an example of ...
David Krakauer: Bubbemeises: Lies My Gramma Told Me
by Kurt Gottschalk
Composer/klezmer and classical clarinetist David Krakauer has accrued a nice string of releases over the last five years, working with the under-distributed French Label Bleu imprint. 2001's A Hot One went toward the jazzy end of klez and The Twelve Tribes, from the following year, punched it up with a bit of a rock edge. But ...
Pete Robbins: Waits & Measures
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Although it's been over 35 years since Miles recorded Bitches Brew, music purists still experience seismic spasms whenever a musician releases an album that aggressively and successfully fuses jazz with rock. Waits & Measures is not so much a fusion album as it is a remarkable commandeering of sometimes conflicting harmonies into a smooth, cleverly voltaic ...
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