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Iridium Jazz Club January Schedule

November 18, 2006

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 Note: Set Times for Les Paul Remain at 8 & 10PM EVERY MONDAY LES PAUL AND HIS TRIO JOHN COLIANNI - PIANO ...

Harlem Speaks Venue Change + Ross Carnegie, Pianist Nov. 30 at Harlem Speaks

November 18, 2006

The Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 East 126th Street New York, NY 10035 212 348-8300 Venue Change: Ross Carnegie featured at Harlem Speaks Ross Carnegie, Pianist Nov. 30, 2006 Eddie Locke, Drummer Dec. 7, 2006 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA legend Dec. 21, 2006 The Jazz ...

Rova: Totally Spinning

by Jeff Stockton
November 18, 2006

Depending on your preference among saxophone quartets, Rova (comprised of Larry Ochs, Jon Raskin, Bruce Ackley and Steve Adams) and the World Saxophone Quartet would have to rank numbers 1 and 1A. Rova has always been perceived as the more avant-garde of the two, more prone to explorations of abstract sound, closer in spirit (and practice) ...

Marco Cappelli: Extreme Guitar Project

by Kurt Gottschalk
November 18, 2006

The talented Italian guitarist Marco Cappelli's love affair with New York City began with a trip in 2002, which led to him commissioning a series of compositions for solo guitar. That set of pieces--the “Extreme Guitar Project --is a remarkable collection, allowing at once a variety of vantages of the composers, the interpreter and the guitar. ...

Ches Smith: Congs for Brums

by Florence Wetzel
November 18, 2006

This solo percussion set by Ches Smith offers ten songs full of depth and imagination. About half of the tunes on Congs for Brums feature the vibraphone, the other half drums and percussion; some songs include both. Smith wrote all the vibraphone pieces on piano and his drum pieces borrow ideas from the vibraphone songs, allowing ...

The Django Reinhardt New York Festival at Birdland, November 11, 2006

by Budd Kopman
November 17, 2006

The Django Reinhardt New York FestivalBirdlandSaturday, November 11, 2006 If music can ever be said to bring sheer, unadulterated, unfettered joy, it did so on this night and, I was told, on every night since the preceding Tuesday, when the Birdland DjangoFest started. There were French exchanges between the crowd, and the ...

Nussbaum / Stryker / Gold @ the Corner Stage Sat. Nov. 18

November 16, 2006

Steve Dalachinsky & Joe McPhee Thurs., Nov. 16 at Cornelia Street Cafe

November 16, 2006

CORNELIA STREET CAFE 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York 212-989-9319 http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, V, F to West 4th St. GOLDA SOLOMON “The Medicine Woman of Jazz" with PO'JAZZ ...

Alive At The Village Vanguard: My Life In and Out of Jazz Time By Lorraine Gordon as told to Barry Singer

November 16, 2006

ALIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD My Life In and Out of Jazz Time By Lorraine Gordon as told to Barry Singer Hardcover; $27.95 “It's a very sexy game, jazz." Lorraine Gordon, proprietor of the Village Vanguard and one of the first ladies of jazz for more than 60 years, has ...

Gunther Schuller: Heralding Charles Mingus

by Judith Insell
November 16, 2006

Gunther Schuller, one of jazz's foremost scholars, arrangers, composers and conductors, takes the stage with the Mingus Orchestra at New York's Merkin Hall this month. All About Jazz spoke with the octogenarian musical icon about his longstanding association with [bassist/composer] Charles Mingus and his travels through the jazz and classical music genres. All About ...