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"Bending Towards The Light ...A Jazz Nativity" Swings Into Birdland On Christmas Eve And Day

December 20, 2006

"seeing the JAZZ NATIVITY should be a prerequisite for entering the Pearly Gates!"--The Rev. James A Forbes, Jr. Riverside Church “BENDING TOWARDS THE LIGHT ... A JAZZ NATIVITY" SWINGS INTO BIRDLAND ON CHRISTMAS EVE AND DAY BENDING TOWARDS THE LIGHT... A JAZZ NATIVITY, the joyful musical holiday show that warms the hearts of families of all ...

Dave Stryker Organ Trio at the Jazz Standard Tue. Dec. 26th 7:30 and 9:30 PM

December 19, 2006

The Dave Stryker Organ Trio w/ Jared Gold - organ and Tony Reedus - drums Tue. Dec. 26th at 7:30 and 9:30 PM The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th St. NYC (betw Park and Lex) 212-576-2232 http://www.jazzstandard.net Dave Stryker's second release for the Mel Bay label, ...

'Harlem Speaks' with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Thursday, December 21st 6:30 pm FREE at The Museum of the City of New York

December 19, 2006

The Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 East 126th Street New York, NY 10035 Harlem Speaks with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at The Museum of the City of New York interviewed by Christian McBride, Larry Blumenfeld host: Maxx Myrick, XM Satellite Radio HARLEM SPEAKS Thursday, December 21st ...

Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut's "Allemansratten"

December 19, 2006

Jeffrey hayden Shurdut Quintet Allemansratten Ayler Records, aylDL-045 Gaz-Eta By Tom Sekowski “Allemansratten" or “all of man's right to freedom" is a perfect translation of guitarist/composer Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut's concept of music. His take on leadership is that “a leader who knows how to lead without leading." Quintet he amassed ...

David Berger and the Sultans of Swing: The Harlem Nutcracker

by Budd Kopman
December 18, 2006

It is that time of year again, and David Berger's adaptation and extension of Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn's Harlem Nutcracker suite is one swinging way to enjoy music of this season. This release is a reissue of the original. The short story is that Berger, an expert on Ellington and a top notch transcriber, ...

The Creative Music Workshop presents phase II concert with Matt Wilson as guest

December 17, 2006

Refuge Trio with Theo Bleckmann, John Hollenbeck and Gary Versace at Joe's Pub 1/13/07 at 7PM

December 17, 2006

"Expect the unexpected with the refuge trio, featuring the vocalist Theo Bleckmann, the drummer John Hollenbeck, and the keyboardist Gary Versace. Bleckmann and Hollenbeck have enough new-music, cabaret, and jazz chops to move the music in any direction they want, while Versace has lately been making big noise on his Hammond organ." - The New Yorker ...

Jamie Saft: Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan

by Kurt Gottschalk
December 17, 2006

It's a story almost as old as rock itself: Bob Dylan, the pop poet laureate, can't sing or play guitar, but he sure can write lyrics. Never mind that he was one of the most evocative vocalists of the '60s, who could turn a phrase as brilliantly well with his mouth as he could his pen. ...

Roscoe Mitchell: No Side Effects

by Marc Medwin
December 17, 2006

Very few musicians have made a first statement like Roscoe Mitchell's Sound, recorded for Delmark in 1966. Like the proverbial big bang's reverberations, all of his subsequent work consists of gestures from but not confined to that era and the freedom it fostered. Mitchell's recordings can elicit a deeply intuitive but ultimately inexplicable ...

Jason Lindner: Ab Aeterno

by Terrell Kent Holmes
December 17, 2006

The defining track on Jason Lindner's excellent Ab Aeterno isn't an original composition, it's a medley of two Bud Powell tunes: “Sure Thing and “Glass Enclosure. Powell balanced bebop and classical idioms wonderfully on these songs and showed that even if the two kinds of music were distant relatives, they still shared a common language. Lindner ...