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Article: Album Review

Sonic Liberation Front: Change Over Time

Read "Change Over Time" reviewed by Jeff Stockton

by Jeff Stockton

Twelve musicians play in the Sonic Liberation Front on Change Over Time, but only three appeared on the group's previous release, 2004's critically acclaimed Ashe a Go- Go, including musical directors Kevin Diehl and Chuckie Joseph. As you would expect from a band led by drummers, the music leads with an African/Cuban/Caribbean percussive attack that reminds ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Tim Kuhl Group Jan. 31 at Freddy's Back Room--Free!

Tim Kuhl Group Jan. 31 at Freddy's Back Room--Free!

January, 31 2007 at Freddy's Back Room 485 Dean Street. Brooklyn, New York 11215 Cost: FREE!! Tim Kuhl was born and raised in Baltimore Maryland, and studied jazz/commercial performance at Towson University. His focus was on drum set and marimba performance, which lead him to composing his own original material. Tim then ...

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News: Education

Kiss My Jazz, After the Storm, & Play This Song for Me Now in Print!

Kiss My Jazz, After the Storm, & Play This Song for Me Now in Print!

Jazz pianist and composer Stuart H. Tresser and the Tresser Printing Office have published three new tunes and they are also posted to the website under the sheet music section for anybody to download FREE as “artist copies". Jazzbone Records is planning to produce these and other tunes on a new CD that is going to ...

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News: Music Industry

Kermit Driscoll Gravely Ill with Lyme Disease

Kermit Driscoll Gravely Ill with Lyme Disease

Though he has never released an album under his own name, the bassist Kermit Driscoll has had a considerable impact in adventurous jazz circles over the last 20 years. Mr. Driscoll first emerged as a close compatriot of the guitarist Bill Frisell during an influential stretch from the mid-1980s through the mid-'90s. (Live, a 1991 Gramavision ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Michelle Walker Plays at Enzo's Friday January 26, 2007

Michelle Walker Plays at Enzo's Friday January 26, 2007

Michelle Walker performs @ ENZO's Friday January 26, 2007 The Jolly Madison Hotel 22 East 38th Street Madison Avenue at 38th Street New York, NY 10016 Tel: 212-802-0600 January 26, 2007 Sets 8:00pm and 9:30pm Joining Michelle will be: Daniela Schaechter on piano Dave Ambrosio on ...

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News: Event

Jane Monheit to Perform at "VH1 Save the Music" Benefit Concert

Jane Monheit to Perform at "VH1 Save the Music" Benefit Concert

The Ben Toth Project On January 29th and February 5th, young composer Ben Toth debuts new songs, setting some of the great modern poetry to music, including poems from his collaboration with Pulitzer-Prize-winning-poet Paul Muldoon. For the first performance, Ben will perform the entire cycle from the piano, and on February 5th, will be joined by ...

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Article: Album Review

Hendrik Meurkens: New York Jazz Samba Quintet

Read "New York Jazz Samba Quintet" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

Hendrik Meurkens was smitten enough by Brazilian music to move to Rio from Germany in the early eighties. He calls this a life-changing musical experience which led him to study the music in depth. A residency at the Bar 21 in Rio helped put theory into practice. He moved to New York from his native Germany, ...

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Article: Profile

Ornette Coleman: Sound Catalyst

Read "Ornette Coleman: Sound Catalyst" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen

Catalyst (n.)--an agent that facilitates a change.Catalysis (n.)--the action or effect of a substance in increasing the rate of a reaction without itself being consumed. --Shorter Oxford English DictionaryWhile change occurs all around, the agent stands apart, its own dynamism existing somewhere askance from the rest of the world. Though Picasso had ...

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Article: Album Review

Afro-Semitic Experience: Plea for Peace

Read "Plea for Peace" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts

As a Jewish guy married to an African woman and with a new baby boy we like to refer to as “our little Jewfrican, the music of the Afro-Semitic Experience resonates in my household. When we first saw them perform a few years ago at Tonic, we said, “The Afro-Semitic Experience... hey, that's us.

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Article: From Far and Wide

Passing the Torch: Jazz in the Next Generation

Read "Passing the Torch: Jazz in the Next Generation" reviewed by Tom Greenland

by Tom Greenland

The concept of jazz education is problematic, perhaps even oxymoronic. How do you teach someone to swing, to improvise creatively, to play with soul, to be him-or herself? In other words, Can jazz be taught? While some might argue to the contrary, numerous folks out there, on the scene, are making a difference, kindling and stoking ...


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