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Martin Wind Quartet at Kitano
by Victor L. Schermer
Martin Wind Quartet Jazz at Kitano New York, NY May 31, 2014 It was a clear, warm late spring evening in Manhattan, and Jazz at Kitano, by now a familiar part of the New York nightclub scene, provided a perfect setting for a CD release event, a place with great ...
Anzic Records Artist Anat Cohen Live At The Village Vanguard, June 10-15, And More!
ANAT COHEN LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 10-15, 8:30 & 10:30 PM With NY3, Featuring Martin Wind & Matt Wilson Anat's Brilliant Rendition of “La Vie en Rose" Featured in The Major Motion Picture, The Other Woman (Twentieth Century Fox, 2014) Anat featured with Newport Now 60 at Major Summer Festivals, Including ...
Blue Note Jazz Festival Presents Bobby McFerrin & Questlove Produced By Jill Newman Productions
Blue Note Jazz Festival & Jill Newman Productions Presents: Mumbo Jumbo Bobby McFerrin and Questlove in Musical Dialogue - June 13, 2014 Blue Note Jazz Festival & Jill Newman Productions are proud to present Bobby McFerrin and Questlove in musical dialogue at The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, New York, NY. This outstanding program takes ...
Max Johnson: The Prisoner
by John Sharpe
NYC-based bassist Max Johnson already boasts an impressively strong discography, after just two entries: Quartet (Not Two, 2013) and Elevated Vegetation (FMR, 2012). With a new crew on board for The Prisoner, he tackles that hoary chestnut the concept album. Except of course that in the medium of jazz, this doesn't mean a string of banal ...
On the Bus with Ronan Harris: Classical to Futurepop and Everything in Between
by Christine Connallon
The tour bus that ferries about and serves as home base for a band of internationally known musicians is surprisingly pristine and neat. The air conditioning is on full blast giving the space a delightful chill against the late spring humidity. Only a lone bottle of sriracha sauce sits on the kitchen counter, waiting for a ...
Peter Van Huffel/Michael Bates/Jeff Davis: Boom Crane
by Glenn Astarita
Berlin-based saxophonist, composer Peter Van Huffel is the lead voice on Boom Crane's debut outing, featuring the dynamo rhythm section of New York residents, bassist Michael Bates and drummer Jeff Davis. As one would anticipate, the saxophonist imparts his creatively focused, restless nature into the grand schema. He's a mover and shaker via his unwieldy theme- ...
Vision Festival 19: Honoring Amiri Baraka The Legacy Thru Panels & Poetry
Since the first Vision Festival, in 1996, Amiri Baraka has been an important presence at Vision. But way before the Vision Festival he was a champion of the music, with his seminal books on Jazz, ‘Blues People’ and ‘Black Music’. For many of the other artists and audiences who have participated each year, Baraka has been ...
Quentin Angus: Perception
by Ian Patterson
Australia boasts an embarrassment of great jazz musicians, an increasing number of whom have made their way to New York in recent years to broaden their horizons. Guitarist Quentin Angus is one such notable Aussie talent. Here Angus follows up his promising debut, Retrieval Structure (Self Produced, 2011) with another assured work that highlights his tasteful ...
Ernie Watts: A Simple Truth
by Ian Patterson
The title of Ernie Watt's seventh release on his Flying Dolphin label reflects the tenor great's guiding philosophy, as he explained in a recent interview for dublinjazz.ie: “We are creating our reality all day every day by the thoughts that we think and by the things that we say and by our belief systems. It's a ...
Jamaican-British Soul-Jazz Chanteuse Zara McFarlane Makes Debut U.S. Tour In Support Of "If You Knew Her"
If You Knew Her, Released in Early 2014 on Peterson’s Soul-Inflected Brownswood Recordings Is Already One of 2014′s Most Acclaimed Recordings It’s a tough task for music critics to write about a singer that genuinely knocks their socks off. Zara McFarlane is the London based singer, who, in 2011 released Until Tomorrow, a debut album that ...
