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News: Education

Usdan - 1/25 Free Open House $100 "Early Bird" Discount

January 12, 2015

Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned summer arts camp whose Jazz Department was created by Dr. Billy Taylor, will hold a free Open House on Sunday January 25 from 11 AM to 2 PM for its 48th, 2015 season. For more information, call (631) 643-7900, write to [email protected], or visit usdan.com. ...

Article: Film Review

The Best of the Tribeca Film Festival 2014

by Christine Connallon
January 10, 2015

Celebrating its 13th year of bringing the best and brightest to movie goers, the Tribeca Film Festival 2014 previewed over 6,000 submissions to showcase gems in both feature and short length categories. With a total attendance of over 400,000 attending nearly 400 screenings and panels at a staggering rate of 95% attendance and representing work from ...

Article: Album Review

Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy

by Glenn Astarita
January 9, 2015

Drummer Tyshawn Sorey has evolved into one of the more sought after drummers in the jazz and improvisational strata on a global basis. His ever expanding resume is difficult to keep up with. And he possesses immense chops as a polyrhythmic powerhouse, but focuses his empathetic support on a variety of levels, including diverse compositional frameworks, ...

Article: Live Review

Chris Botti at Blue Note Jazz Club

by Tyran Grillo
January 9, 2015

Chris Botti Blue Note Jazz Club 10th Annual Holiday Residency New York, NY January 2, 2015 Chris Botti has held his own as a contemporary music darling since making splashes as both a studio and live musician in the mid-1990s. Gracefully sidestepping knee-jerk criticism and bolstered by widespread praise, he ...

News: Recording

Brazilian Vocalist & Cellist Dom La Nena Announces New Album And North American Tour

January 9, 2015

Co-produced by Dom and Brazilian composer/singer/guitarist Marcelo Camelo, SOYO is the follow up to debut album, Ela, which NPR Hailed As A “Sonic Masterpiece." Dom La Nena has drawn comparisons as varied as “a young Brian Wilson” (Wall Street Journal), “a burnished, bossa Joanna Newsom” (Time Out New York) and “the shadow of Lhasa” (Voir), yet ...

News: Performance / Tour

Bettye Lavette Returns To Café Carlyle With All New Show & A New CD, January 27-February 7

January 9, 2015

Café Carlyle is pleased to welcome back iconic R&B songstress Bettye LaVette for a two- week engagement, January 27–February 7, where she will showcase her inimitable style, gut wrenching vocals and songs from throughout her five decade career, as well as the world premiere of selections from her new album, Worthy. The album, which Cherry Red ...

Article: Album Review

Paul Shapiro: Shofarot Verses

Read "Shofarot Verses" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
January 8, 2015

Nel nome dello shofar, strumento-simbolo della musica ebraica che compare in copertina intrecciato a un sax alto, si svolge questo album, che parte con un monologo di Paul Shapiro e va poi a impantanarsi piuttosto velocemente nelle secche di una musica che rispetta sì i canoni del filone di appartenenza, ma lo fa con fin troppa ...

News: Performance / Tour

Charley Gerard's Songs Of Love And Passion at IBeam on February 6

January 8, 2015

This will be the first project for the Broken Reed Saxophone Quartet (BRSQ) with lyrics! This Brooklyn-based group is directed by composer and alto saxophonist Charley Gerard with Jenny Hill, Jacob Teichroew and Dimitri Moderbacher filling out the quartet. Kristin Slipp, an immensely talented singer with the group Cuddle Magic, is performing the work along with ...

News: Recording

Donna Lewis Returns With New Jazz Album, "Brand New Day"

January 8, 2015

Platinum singer-songwriter reimagines her own material and songs by David Bowie, Neil Young, Damien Rice, Gnarls Barkley, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chocolate Genius, Burt Bacharach and Harry Nilsson. The Welsh-born singer Donna Lewis is one of those rare artists whose immense success on the pop radio charts disguises an exceptional and serious musicianship and breadth of repertoire. ...

News: Performance / Tour

Singer/Actor Cheyenne Jackson Makes Café Carlyle Debut, January 13-24

January 8, 2015

Cheyenne Jackson, with stage credits including The Performers, 8, Finian’s Rainbow, Damn Yankees and Xanadu; television appearances on 30 Rock, Glee, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Ugly Betty; and film work including Love is Strange, United 93, Price Check and Lola Versus, will make his debut at Café Carlyle to open the winter season, January 13-24. The ...