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Jazzmobile Announces Audition To Enter "The Jazzmobile Jazz Vocal Competition"
Jazzmobile Inc. will be hosting it's third annual Jazzmobile Vocal Competition" which is scheduled to take place from August 14, 2006 through September 28, 2006. Returning as the lead sponsor is Anheuser-Busch Inc. This year's Grand Prize will be One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars and a guest appearance at a NYC Night Club, the 2nd Prize is ...
Les Paul (Mon) Mingus Dynasty (Tues) Eric Frazier (Wed) Aug. 10-13 James Moody at The Iridium Jazz Club
IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 NEW SET TIMES BEGINNING JUNE 1, 2006 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 ...
Sound of the Sorcerer: The Music of Hermeto Pascoal @ Merkin Hall (9/9) with Bobby Sanabria Big Band, Jovino Santos Neto, Mike Marshall, Paquito D'Rivera
Kaufman Center Presents Opening Masters Reimagined Series Concert SOUND OF THE SORCERER: THE MUSIC OF HERMETO PASCOAL Bobby Sanabria Big Band / Jovino Santos Neto / Mike Marshall / Paquito D'Rivera at Merkin Concert Hall, Saturday, September 9, 2006 at 8:30pm New York, NY, 8/07/06-In recognition of Brazilian Independence Day, musicians from ...
Johnny Hartman: Johnny Hartman The Complete Gus Wildi Recordings
by Marcia Hillman
Johnny Hartman recorded these 25 songs, all standards and each a special performance, for Gus Wildi's Bethlehem Records during 1955 and 1956. On the first twelve tracks (released on From The Heart), Hartman is backed by trumpeter Howard McGhee, pianist Ralph Sharon, bassist Jay Cave and drummer Christy Febbo. Hartman approaches each song in a straightforward ...
Dan Blake: The Party Suite
by George Kanzler
Dan Blake's orchestral approach to the jazz quartet is reminiscent of both early New Orleans combos and the quartets of Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan and Ornette Coleman. His composing suggests the influences of Mingus and Herbie Nichols, whose Spinning Song is the album's only cover. A multi-reed player, Blake's most distinctive instrument is ...
Legendary Afro-Cuban percussionist Francisco Aguabella Debuts at SOBs September 10 featuring Candido
Legendary Afro-Cuban percussionist Francisco Aguabella will make his debut at New York's famed SOB's located at 204 Varick Street September 10. This rare event, produced by impresario Charles Carlini, will feature some of New York's leading Latin musicians including Candido Camero, Sonny Bravo, Jimmy Delgado, Ruben Rodriguez and Enrique Fernandez. Sets are at 8:00 pm and ...
NYC Jazz Holiday on a Budget
by Elliott Simon
The NYC jazz landscape is expansive in both scope and talent. It can at the same time be daunting and expensive to the person trying to naively experience it. Recently, I had a five day jazz holiday in the Big Apple and decided to see if I could hit four shows that would somehow capture a ...
Eric Reed: Here
by Ken Dryden
Throughout this studio session, Eric Reed shows why many critics consider him to be one of the top pianists of his generation. Well-accompanied by bassist Rodney Whitaker and drummer Willie Jones III, Reed kicks off with a lively interpretation of Benny Golson's jazz standard Stablemates, on which the shadings and pulse of the rhythm section complement ...
Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961
by George Kanzler
This 45th anniversary issue of all five June 25, 1961 sets by pianist Bill Evans' trio with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian is rightly considered the crowning preserved achievement of one of the most influential piano trios in jazz history. This group was the coming out of a new, sensitive, interactive mode, a new ...
Jack DeJohnette with Bill Frisell: The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers
by Celeste Sunderland
Something astonishing happened on Halloween night in Seattle five years ago: Jack DeJohnette took the stage with Bill Frisell. An event so unthinkably natural had only occurred once before, at a recording session with Don Byron two years earlier. This album, recorded at the Earshot Jazz Festival, exists as testimony that when two mammoth figures join ...

