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Dekel Bor Trio Featuring Adam Rogers tonight at Smalls

December 6, 2006

The Dekel Bor Trio is delighted to invite you to the band's last 4 NYC shows until July 2007. As they prepare to record their next album with Grammy-winning producer Robert Sadin, the trio will be playing every Wednesday in December at Smalls - every week with a very special friend as a guest. Dec. 6th ...

Laszlo Gardony: You Can't Take Your Ax On The Road

by Laszlo Gardony
December 6, 2006

I love my piano. It stands in the middle of my living room. Every time I play it, it feels like I am connecting to an external part of me. There is a bond that is special and fragile. Last December when I spent a lot of time writing music on my piano, an acquaintance came ...

Andy Biskin: Trio Tragico

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
December 6, 2006

Andy Biskin spins a musical tragicomedy on Trio Tragico. With Dave Ballou (trumpet) and Drew Gress (bass), he presents a melancholic but discretely jovial blend of chamber music and exciting new rhythms. The clarinetist's live set at Cornelia Street Café in early October captured the electricity of the trio. The improvisational bits of ...

Madeleine Peyroux: Half The Perfect World

by Suzanne Lorge
December 6, 2006

Madeleine Peyroux confidently walks the line where jazz, country and blues collide--her understated vocals and Billie Holiday-esque phrasing are what pull the disparate elements of her performance together into an engaging pastiche. Peyroux's bailiwick is pop covers with stylized jazz arrangements: On the Leonard Cohen/Anjani Thomas title cut, “Half The Perfect World," her ...

Sathima Bea Benjamin: SongSpirit

by AAJ Staff
December 6, 2006

To celebrate her recent septuagenarian status, vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin selected twelve tracks spanning eight releases for inclusion on SongSpirit, from her first early-'60s sessions to her latest disc (Musical Echoes, 2002), in essence releasing a “greatest hits compilation--though who in jazz makes hit records?! Benjamin wisely selects an array of gems, particularly ...

Dekel Bor Trio performing Tonight at Charley O's

December 5, 2006

Updated Stone (NYC) Schedule: December 6-10

December 5, 2006

Due to ill health, Lol Coxhill could not fly here this week for his sets at The Stone. Lol had a hip operation earlier this year, has been having hearing problems as of late and fears not being able to play well or at all when he was to arrive in New York earlier today. We ...

Hot Stride Piano by 22-Year-Old French Pianist at Shutters Cafe Dec 16

December 5, 2006

Hot Stride Piano “Little Fats" Jean-Baptiste Franc - piano supported by Australian drummer Adam Pache Saturday, December 16, 2006, 8pm - 12:00am Harlem Stride Piano style with tributes James.P.Johnson, Fats Waller and Sidney Bechet. From 10pm an All-Star Band of Swing-Jazz Improvisers have been invited JEAN-BAPTISTE “Little Fats" FRANC - A 22-year-old Stride Pianist whose influences ...

Dave Holland Quintet: Critical Mass

by Joel Roberts
December 5, 2006

Bassist extraordinaire Dave Holland believes that like fine wine, music shouldn't be unbottled before its time. Holland and his highly regarded quintet spent a year and a half honing and retooling the music on their new album until it reached the point he calls “critical mass, where “it has become what it's going to be.

Live Virtual Jam Session at The Bitter End

December 4, 2006

eJamming is set to present the first-ever Live Online Jam Session on December 10, 2006 between musicians onstage at New York City's legendary The Bitter End in Greenwich Village and musicians in Boston, Upstate New York and Los Angeles playing in real time over the Internet. Synchronized by eJamming Studio 1.5 software, musicians in different locations ...