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Theory of a Deadman at Webster Hall

Read "Theory of a Deadman at Webster Hall" reviewed by Christine Connallon

by Christine Connallon

Theory of a Deadman Marlin Room at Webster Hall New York City July 30, 2014 Even before Tyler Connolly, front man for the Canadian rock band Theory of a Deadman, told the crowd that the band “still loves what they do," that fact was quite evident to those who packed the ...

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Article: Live Review

David Gray at The Theater at Madison Square Garden

Read "David Gray at The Theater at Madison Square Garden" reviewed by Christine Connallon

by Christine Connallon

David Gray Theater at Madison Square Garden New York City August 4, 2014 David Gray dances like there's nobody watching. Even in a packed NYC venue on a hot summer night. Anticipation filled the dark and cavernous Theater at Madison Square Garden. Nearly each and every plush seat was ...

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Article: Album Review

Kenny Lavender: Conscious Journey Part 1 & 2

Read "Conscious Journey Part 1 & 2" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Texas-born, New York-based trumpeter Kenny Lavender is as versatile as can be. He's put his horn to good use on Broadway, playing lead trumpet on Bullets Over Broadway and working in the pit orchestras of other hit shows like The Drowsy Chaperone and West Side Story; he's backed up old pros like Frankie Valli, The Temptations, ...

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Article: Live Review

Cassandra Wilson at Lincoln Center Out of Doors

Read "Cassandra Wilson at Lincoln Center Out of Doors" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes

Cassandra Wilson Lincoln Center Out of Doors August 8, 2014 New York, NY Playing before an outdoor capacity audience, Cassandra Wilson performed a concert to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Blue Night 'till Dawn (Blue Note, 1993), featuring many of the musicians who ...

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Article: Album Review

Florencia Gonzalez: Between Loves

Read "Between Loves" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

On her second album as a leader, the sumptuous and intimate Between Loves, Montevideo born and New York based saxophonist Florencia Gonzalez elegantly merges a refreshingly innovative spontaneity and a mesmerizing Latin romanticism. The result is a thematically cohesive and multi-textured release that crackles with boppish energy as it draws on motifs from her native culture.

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Article: Album Review

The Cookers: Time And Time Again

Read "Time And Time Again" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

The very idea of The Cookers is something of a pleasing paradox. It's a band that's populated by some of the most impressive and seasoned veterans out there, but it plays like an anti-super group; it's a real deal band, not a big payday or business venture, and nobody's phoning it in, grandstanding, or letting any ...

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Article: Book Excerpts

For the Artists: Critical Writing, Volume 2

Read "For the Artists: Critical Writing, Volume 2" reviewed by Greg Masters

by Greg Masters

Miles Davis: The Complete On the Corner Sessions Sony-Legacy Music, October 2007 “There is no architecture and no build-up. Just a vivid, uninterrupted succession of colors, rhythms and moods." —Arnold Schoenberg, describing his Five Pieces for Orchestra in a letter to Richard Strauss, 1909, quoted in The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross ...

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Article: Album Review

Tony Kadleck Big Band: Around The Horn

Read "Around The Horn" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello

In assessing baseball talent, the scouts' description “five-tool talent" describes a hitter who can do it all--run, field, hit for average, hit with power and throw. When a musician such as Tony Kadleck steps into the recording batter's box as leader and with work presented such as Around the Horn, the description not only fits like ...

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Article: Live Review

Otis Brown III + Revive Big Band at Central Park Summerstage

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by Ernest Barteldes

Otis Brown III + Revive Big Band Blue Note Records 75th Anniversary at Central Park Summerstage August 3, 2014 New York, NY On an evening dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Blue Note Records (now a subsidiary of Universal Music), drummer Otis Brown III began the proceedings by ...

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Article: Album Review

Ayal Tsubery: Decisions

Read "Decisions" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Ayal Tsubery is a Berklee-educated bassist and composer influenced, as he puts it, by ..." jazz, Israeli folk, African and Middle Eastern grooves and old-school gritty rock 'n' roll." On his debut album, Decisions, he brings most of those influences together to create a strong set of tunes--not so much of the gritty rock 'n' roll, ...


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