Home » Search Center » Results: New York

Results for "New York"

Article: Album Review

Tony Moreno: Short Stories

Read "Short Stories" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
November 3, 2016

Manhattan-native drummer Tony Moreno was born into and for music, his mother, Nina Dunkel Moreno, a noted harpist, pianist and educator. Oh, and he received his first drum kit at ten-years old from... Elvin Jones who became his early mentor and teacher. Moreno has had a long and storied career, filled with memories and mementos, many ...

Article: Album Review

Ken Silverman: Guitar Fantasies

Read "Guitar Fantasies" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
November 2, 2016

With Guitar Fantasies Ken Silverman continues on the path he started on the 2015 release Parallel Man (Soundseer). The focus is again on the multifaceted melodies that simultaneously reflect elements of various genres while remaining anchored in the jazz idiom. While on Parallel Man there were more western classical motifs on the current album rock influences ...

Article: Live Review

Steve Coleman and Five Elements at Albright-Knox Art Gallery

by Matthew Aquiline
November 1, 2016

Steve Coleman and Five Elements Albright-Knox Art Gallery Art of Jazz Buffalo, NY October 29, 2016 If Steve Coleman's set at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery proved anything, it's that residencies are still a beneficial means to cultivating unrivaled virtuosity within a band. In the case of composer, alto ...

News: Recording

Nu Jazz Entertainment/ELM Records Announces The Vinyl Release Of An 80th Birthday Celebration! From NEA Jazz Master Ellis Marsalis In Celebration Of His 82nd Birthday For A Limited Time!

October 31, 2016

Nu Jazz Entertainment/ELM Records—two long time producers of high quality audio and video content in the genre of jazz—announced the November 2016 release of a vinyl album, Ellis Marsalis: An 80th Birthday Celebration (Limited Edition), from the NEA Jazz Master. The double disc vinyl album will be released through the Pledge Music distribution platform with a ...

News: Website

Jazz Near You NYC Tops 1,600 active events -- 52 in one day!

October 30, 2016

Jazz Near You has quietly become the most comprehensive jazz events calendar in the world and is now home to the most active jazz calendar in New York City. Loaded with events... accessible in an instant Listing well over 1,600 active events in July, JNY NYC aggregates events from TicketFly, Instant Seats, Brown Paper Tickets, Jazz ...

News: Website

Jazz Near You Collaborates with Blue Note Jazz Club (NYC)

October 30, 2016

Jazz Near You, the world's leading jazz event aggregator, has collaborated with Blue Note New York to collect and distribute all jazz events presented at New York's premier jazz club and one of the most recognized jazz venues in the world. Jazz Near You continues to build on what is already the most comprehensive New York ...

News: Event

Cristina Morrison--Singer-Actor-Producer--Nominated In Two Categories--The 15th Independent Music Awards

October 29, 2016

Winners Announced November 12 at Lincoln Center—FREE! Cristina Morrison has been making waves since her release last year of Baronesa on Jazzheads. This year she's a double nominee for the Independent Music Awards in the categories of Jazz With Vocals and for her song “The Sky Is In Your Eyes." “I'm honored, inspired and thankful. I ...

Article: New York @ Night

BRIC JazzFest 2016

by Peter Jurew
October 28, 2016

BRIC JazzFest BRIC House Brooklyn, NY October 8-15, 2016 After a successful debut in 2015, the BRIC JazzFest returned to the BRIC House in downtown Brooklyn, New York, this year with two nights of jazz-related films and a music “marathon" of twenty-seven acts spread evenly over three nights. ...

News: Performance / Tour

Harlem Hieroglyphs - A Jazz, Blues, And Ballads Concert With The Jay Hoggard Quartet On Saturday, November 19 At Fieldston School Student-Faculty Lounge (Bronx, NY)

October 28, 2016

Jay Hoggard and his quartet will perform ballads, bop, and blues, and music that blends jazz and gospel roots with African Marimba rhythms on Saturday, November 19 at 8:00pm at Fieldston School Student-Faculty Lounge, 3901 Fieldston Road in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Music for the concert, written by Hoggard, is on his newest two-disk ...

Article: Album Review

Raphael Malfliet: Noumenon

Read "Noumenon" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
October 26, 2016

How does it sound when a bass is not a bass, a guitar not a guitar and a drum is a not a drum? The answer to this riddle is the album Noumenon by the Belgian-born bassist Raphael Malfliet. His album is yet another worthy addition to the hip Brooklyn label, Ruweh, but ...