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Greg Robinson, Trombonist-Sunday Brunch in East Village July 15-16--No Cover
Greg Robinson, Trombone John Liquori, Guitar Playing Jazz, Standards, and Blues No cover! Saturday July 15, 1:00-3:00 p.m. Cafe Pick-Me-Up Corner of Ave A and E 9th Street Across from Tompkins Square Park New York, NY Sunday July 16, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Orologio ...
CJeff Releases New Indie Album "Positive"
New York, New York--Christopher Leighton, known as the performing artist Cjeff, hails from the Bronx, New York. He has been performing and recording for three decades, taking the influences of such artists as Mark Knopfler, Pat Metheny, Weather Report, George Gershwin, Keith Emerson, Thelonius Monk, Alan Holdsworth, Van Halen, and Lee Rittenour to formulate his own ...
Pink Floyd Founder Syd Barrett dies at 60
LONDON - Syd Barrett, the troubled Pink Floyd co-founder who spent his last years in reclusive anonymity, has died, the band said Tuesday. He was 60. A spokeswoman for the band said Barrett died several days ago, but she did not disclose the cause of death. Barrett had suffered from diabetes for years. The surviving members ...
Borah Bergman / Lol Coxhill / Paul Hession: Acts of Love
by Clifford Allen
The number of piano/reeds/percussion trios in the history of improvised music can probably be counted on a single hand, but some of them have been highly influential. Cecil Taylor's trio recorded such a set in 1962 at the Café Montmartre in Copenhagen, the entrée into free percussion beginning with Sunny Murray's fragmented bebop impulsions as Taylor ...
Herbie Hancock: The Essential Herbie Hancock
by Judith Insell
The Essential Herbie Hancock, a double-CD set spanning a forty-year body of work, presents a sample of Hancock's bold explorations of various jazz styles. The compilation runs in nearly chronological order, highlighting releases on major jazz labels like Blue Note, Columbia and Verve. The track order makes very clear the varying creative avenues that Hancock has ...
William Parker: Long Hidden: The Olmec Series
by Jeff Stockton
Solo contrabass performances are an acquired taste that requires confidence and nerve on the part of the performer and the listener. Long Hidden, comprised of music from four separate sessions, pits several solo performances by William Parker on bass and doson ngoni (West African lute) against a few tracks by the upstart Olmec Group. The disc ...
Dekel Bor Trio featuring Ogonna Okegwo live Wed. July 12th at Flute Bar
The Dekel Bor Trio will perform original music from their upcoming debut Emuna, produced by Robert Sadin (Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock) with very special guest Ugonna Okegwo--known for his work with Tom Harrell and Jacky Terrasson. Dekel Bor - Guitars Ogonna Okegwo - Bass Nadav Snir-Zelniker - Drums performing Wed. July 12th ...
Whitney To Present Special Tribute to Steve Reich in October 2006
Culminates Oct. 15 with a 4-hour marathon of seminal Reich works, performed by Alarm Will Sound, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, So Percussion, Tactus and Ransom Wilson “There's just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history, and Steve Reich is one of them." - The Guardian (UK) The ...
The Uptown Quintet: Live in New York
by Samuel Chell
This 2006 release of an on-location recording features a non-working band of five musicians who live above 96th Street and have studied at the New School or the Manhattan School of Music. The sounds are less suggestive of the conservatory, however, than Rudy Van Gelder's Blue Note recording studio from the late '50s and early '60s, ...
Richard Sussman Duo July 12 at L'Artista in Orangeburg
JAZZ at L'Artista Wednesdays in July, 7:30 - 10:30 PM July 12: Richard Sussman - Piano Mike Richmond - Bass July 19: Jay Azzolina - Guitar Bass - TBA July 26 (Nyack Jazz Festival Week): Richard Sussman - Piano Andy McKee - Bass L'Artista ...
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