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Article: Album Review

Sketches: Volume One

Read "Volume One" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

This Brooklyn-based jazz quintet comprised of nascent talent takes a unique approach to composition. Here, the musicians share a sketch from a notepad, denoting an incomplete composition or musical fragment and another band-member runs with it to use as a foundation for a new composition. Nonetheless, it's a balanced program, where the musicians fuse probing melodic ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

2013 Yuletide Offerings

Read "2013 Yuletide Offerings" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

It's clear that the holidays are coming when the mercury dips and the cheery tidings of the season are balanced out by shopping-fueled malaise. When it comes to music, said shopping is often centered on a series of new holiday-themed releases that seem to arrive like clockwork in the weeks and months prior to Christmas; this ...

News: Performance / Tour

Loston Harris Trio at Bryant Park Tree Lighting on December 3

Loston Harris Trio at Bryant Park Tree Lighting on December 3

LOSTON HARRIS TRIO PERFORMS AT BRYANT PARK TREE LIGHTING DECEMBER 3 - TUESDAY JOINS ALL-STAR LINEUP OF PERFORMERS Celebrate and Give Back at the Tree Lighting Show Featuring Loston Harris The Loston Harris Trio will be featured at this year's Bryant Park Tree Lighting Show, which will present an array of personalities, musicians, and excitement. Throughout ...

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Article: Album Review

Tim Warfield: Inspire Me!

Read "Inspire Me!" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Saxophonist Tim Warfield has a lot of irons in the fire. While serving as “artist-in-residence" at Messiah College, attending to his duties as an adjunct faculty member at Temple University, appearing live under his own name and working with high profile artists like trumpeter Terell Stafford, he also found time to deliver three albums in an ...

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Article: Live Review

Styx at the NYCB Theatre At Westbury

Read "Styx  at the NYCB Theatre At Westbury" reviewed by Mike Perciaccante

by Mike Perciaccante

Styx NYCB Theatre At Westbury Westbury, New York November 15, 2013 Styx was formed in Chicago in the early '70s. Originally comprised of the Panozzo brothers (Chuck on bass and John on drums), Dennis DeYoung (keyboards), James “JY" Young (guitar) and John Curulewski (guitar), the band brought on guitarist Tommy ...

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Article: Live Review

B-52s at the NYCB Theatre At Westbury

Read "B-52s  at the NYCB Theatre At Westbury" reviewed by Mike Perciaccante

by Mike Perciaccante

B-52s NYCB Theatre At Westbury Westbury, New York November 13, 2013 The B-52s are acknowledged as one of the greatest party bands of all time. In fact, they are billed as “The World's Greatest Party Band." Touring now minus a member (Keith Strickland recently retired from touring--but will continue to record), ...

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Article: Live Review

Nation Time Concert at the Guggenheim Museum

Read "Nation Time Concert at the Guggenheim Museum" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk

Richard Hell, Arto Lindsay, The Thing Guggenheim Museum Nation Time New York, NY November 20, 2013 Over the course of three forms of media and four decades, Amiri Baraka stretched his way into New York's Guggenheim Museum. A poem he penned more than 40 years ago found its path into ...

News: Recording

Where The Cerebral And The Visceral Meet... Fortunes And Hat-Tricks, Vol. 2 by Mike Davis

Where The Cerebral And The Visceral Meet... Fortunes And Hat-Tricks, Vol. 2 by Mike Davis

The latest album from Tmpf Records features Mike Davis on double bass, Jacob Duncan on alto saxophone and Jason Tiemann on drums. All songs were spontaneously composed by the trio utilizing two compositional concepts created by Davis. The first he calls “Fortunes," and the second he calls “Hat-tricks." “Fortunes" is a spontaneous compositional concept based on ...

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Article: Album Review

Craig Yaremko Organ Trio: CYO3

Read "CYO3" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

When saxophonist Craig Yaremko was in college at the New School, one of his mentors--the esteemed Jane Ira Bloom--heard him playing with an organ group. Right then and there she said, “Craig, your sound was made to play with an organ trio." Now, more than a decade later, Yaremko is proving her right. ...

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Article: Album Review

Adam Lane Trio: Absolute Horizon

Read "Absolute Horizon" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Not enough is heard from Brooklyn-born bassist Adam Lane. He boasts an impressive track record, illuminated by a series of outstanding recordings, mainly on the CIMP label, but culminating in the acclaimed Ashcan Rantings (Clean Feed, 2010). Nothing has surfaced under his own name since, so any new disc grabs attention. That's not to say he ...


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