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Nik Bärtsch’s Mobile at the Rubin Museum of Art
by Tyran Grillo
Nik Bärtsch's Mobile Rubin Museum of Art New York, NY May 6, 2016 When is music a ritual? A relevant question in regard to pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch, one of few modern musicians to live out his worldview in every thought and action. His “Ronin" project laid fresh ...
José James: una grande voce per la Black Music
by Angelo Leonardi
La recente pubblicazione per la Blue Note di Yesterday I Had the Blues -The Music of Billie Holiday , torna a collocare José James in una piena cornice jazzistica. È una commemorazione della cantante e un approccio tradizionale che oggi James affronta senza paura d'apparire prigionero del passato. L'altro esempio riguarda l'album For All We Know, ...
Monica Behan: Right Where I Need to Be
by Jim Olin
Drawing upon the wistful beauty of Joni Mitchell and the confessional ache of Carole King, Monica Behan's voice commands immediate attention. There is an ethereal quality to her singing that illuminates track after track on her new album Right Where I Need to Be. No matter what genre she decides to explore, from vocal jazz to ...
Cuong Vu Trio With Pat Metheny: Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny
by Dan McClenaghan
One of the most distinctive jazz sounds to have appeared this millennium has been shaped by Cuong Vu. Beginning with his It's Mostly Residual (ArtistShare, 2005) through Vu-Tet (ArtistShare, 2007) and into Leaps of Faith, (Origin Records 2011), the modernistic and often plugged-in trumpeter has crafted an assault of sound: a thick, sludgy, glow-in-the-dark, pugnaciously percussive ...
Flow Tribe at the Gramercy Theatre
by Mike Perciaccante
Flow Tribe Gramercy Theatre New York, NY May 20, 2016 Funk is a rhythmic, danceable genre of music that mixes soul, jazz, and R&B. The music features a strong and rhythmic bass and drum backbeat. Interestingly this backbeat and rhythm which is usually in the background is moved ...
The Zombies at NYCB Theatre at Westbury
by Mike Perciaccante
The Zombies with special guests Felix Cavaliere's Rascals NYCB Theatre at Westbury Westbury, NY May 22, 2016 The Zombies are revered for their 1968 album Odessey and Oracle (Date Records/CBS Records). The platter has been hailed as one of the greatest pop and psychedelic albums of all time. The album has ...
Logan Strosahl Team: Up Go We
by Neri Pollastri
Giovane sassofonista e compositore newyorchese, Logan Strosahl è qui alla sua prima prova discografica alla guida del suo “Team," settetto che vede sax tenore, clarinetto e tromba accanto al suo contralto e alla classica ritmica con pianoforte. La formazione in realtà cambia più volte, fino a ridursi a soli tre fiati in “Note-Against-Note," uno ...
Monty Alexander's Harlem-Kingston Express This Week At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola!
THE LEGENDARY JAMAICAN PIANO MASTER—MONTY ALEXANDER This Week at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Through Sunday! Reserve Now! Monty Alexander returns to Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center this week through Sunday, June 5 with a magnificent and expanded version of Harlem Kingston Express. Monty and HKE will play and tell stories ...
Gerry Mulligan: The Emarcy Sextet Recordings
by C. Andrew Hovan
While there are many reasons why the cool jazz movement on the west coast was a somewhat short-lived era, one of the key aspects of its quiet demise was the decidedly harder-edged music coming out of New York at about the same time period. Back around 1955, hard bop was making its ascendency and this might ...
Nate Wooley Makes America Great Again
by Mark Corroto
In his excellent book of literary and cultural criticism, The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, Kevin Young describes the term Jazz as both a noun and a verb. He further explains that jazz from the time of its origins through, let's say the 1980s, was a word used to describe action. Such as the ...
