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Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter
by Mark Corroto
Chris Lightcap is a bassist's bassist. As a sideman to leaders such as Regina Carter, Matt Wilson, Joe Morris, Marc Ribot, and Craig Taborn, his rock-solid timekeeping can be quite inconspicuous. He is a sort of steadfast superglue that leaders and composers hold in high regard. As a leader and composer, there is another ...
Nick Gianni and Arlen Hart at the Shinnyo Center for Meditation and Well-being on March 12 and March 26
The Shinnyo Center for Meditation and Well-being will present a unique meditation series that combines Shinnyo guided meditation with live jazz music performances. Led by Shinnyo meditation guide Eitaro Hayashi, with accompaniment by Nick Gianni on saxophone and Arlen Hart on keyboards, the session will introduce live music and the relaxation benefits of meditation. Music has ...
Tony-Winner Lena Hall Makes Café Carlyle Debut, April 7-18
Coming just off her starring role as Yitzhak in the hit Tony-winning Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Tony-winner and Grammy-nominee Lena Hall makes her Café Carlyle debut to open the spring season, April 7-18. The two-week engagement titled Sin and Salvation will feature an eclectic mix of soulful rock, pop & blues. At ...
Steve Blum’s Molecular Organ Trio - Celebrating Les Paul at the Iridium on March 30th
The Iridium Jazz Club proudly presents STEVE BLUM’S MOLECULAR ORGAN TRIO Monday, March 30 One show only: 9-10:30 pm Honoring the Great Les Paul 100th Year Celebration On Monday, March 30th, guitarist Steve Blum’s Molecular Organ Trio will make its exciting debut at the Iridium Jazz Club, and it’s about time. Blum, a native New Yorker, ...
Kenny Werner “Effortless Mastery: The 4 Steps” Instructional Video Released By JazzHeaven.com
Kenny Werner is a rare musician who is known as much for his teachings and wisdom as for his piano playing and composing. He has played with Joe Lovano, Betty Buckley, Mel Lewis, Bob Brookmeyer, Toots Thielemans, Randy Brecker, and many more. Kenny has been the leader of his own bands since the late 1970s and ...
Han-earl Park: Anomic Aphasia
by John Eyles
The music on Han-earl Park's third CD for Slam, Anomic Aphasia, derives from two similar but significantly different Park projects. The first is Eris 136199, an improvising trio consisting of guitarists Park and Nick Didkovsky (leader of Doctor Nerve) plus saxophonist Catherine Sikora. Described by Park as “the noisy, unruly complexity of the ensemble Eris 136199" ...
Miguel Zenon: Identities Are Changeable
by Maurizio Zerbo
Il progetto di Miguel Zenon Identities Are Changeable è ambizioso nel voler coniugare in un unicum espressivo musica ed interviste ad immigrati portoricani a New York. L'obiettivo era quello di aggiungere un nuovo tassello alla più che decennale esplorazione dei legami tra jazz e la musica del suo paese d'origine. Ma l'originalità dell'idea non ha un ...
Yoosun Nam: Light Of the City
by Ian Patterson
It's a love story in essence: South Korean classical piano and vocal protégé with multiple competition wins, hears jazz in high school; picks up saxophone at nineteen and swaps university computer studies for music; then, as straight and true as Cupid's arrow, heads for Berklee College of Music; New York and a Master's degree in jazz ...
Brandon Seabrook: Sylphid Vitalizers
by Glenn Astarita
Guitarist Brandon Seabrook (Andrew Drury, Anthony Braxton) is justifiably garnering considerable press as a burgeoning firebrand who terrorizes or perhaps, atomizes the banjo and guitar with punk metal, free jazz and anarchistic rock proclivities. With his third solo release he conjures otherworldly and brain-bending propositions via an array of highly disciplined supercharged performances on banjo and ...
Trio (Mit)Marlene: The Surface of an Object
by Vincenzo Roggero
"La superficie di un oggetto" è, nella sua apparente ovvietà, il primo contatto con l'oggetto stesso, sia dal punto di vista visivo che tattile. Ed è anche il primo passo di un viaggio che sensi solerti e curiosi possono intraprendere verso la scoperta della realtà nascosta. Giacomo Merega, Michael Attias e Satoshi Takeishi sanno bene come ...
