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Allan Holdsworth: FLATTire: Music For a Non-Existent Movie
by Glenn Astarita
FLATTire was released in 2001 and highlights Allan Holdsworth's use of the MIDI-controller, guitar-like Synthaxe, and is based on a soundtrack for a non-existent movie, marking a period of reflection in the artist's life. However, the album did not receive much attention amid a sparse print run. Here, the guitarist integrates the broad tonal aspects of ...
13th Annual Jazz In The Valley Set At Waryas Park On The Hudson River, August 18
TRANSART & Cultural Services, Inc. Celebrates the 13th Annual Jazz in the Valley Festival Sunday, August 18, at Waryas Park in Poughkeepsie featuring Sax Appeal with Jimmy Heath, Gary Bartz, Donald Harrison & Javon Jackson; Maurice Brown; Houston Person; Danny Mixon; 3D Ritmo De Vida; Mike Torsone; Maluwa; Charles Eubanks; and More Poughkeepsie, NY: TRANSART and ...
Bill Frisell: Big Sur
by Ian Patterson
Big Sur, the mountainous coastal region of California lends itself to various geographical definitions--it isn't easy to pin down definitively. So, it was an inspired idea by the Monterey Jazz Festival to put guitarist Bill Frisell in a cabin in the area and commission music, because with Frisell, musical borders are delightfully amorphous. The suite that ...
Gary Peacock / Marilyn Crispell: Azure
by John Kelman
Who leads a project is often nothing more than a matter of optics. Bassist Gary Peacock's name may come first on the cover of Azure, but there's no doubt that this is a collaborative affair, with pianist Marilyn Crispell an equal participant; the two even co-produced the recording, with label head Manfred Eicher nowhere to be ...
20th Anniversary Caramoor Jazz Festival
KATONAH, NY: Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts presents the 2013 Jazz Festival celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Caramoor Jazz Festival. From July 26-28, audiences can enjoy some of today’s most influential artists in jazz on Caramoor's distinguished 90-acre garden estate in Katonah, N.Y. One of the most vital jazz events in the region ...
Chicago: Westbury, NY, May 26, 2013
by Mike Perciaccante
Chicago NYCB Theatre at Westbury Westbury, NY May 26, 2013During the initial phase of its career, Chicago was considered the preeminent Jazz-rock fusion outfit, its musical mix considered quite revolutionary for its time. By the late 1970s, its music had become iconic. Tragedy struck, however, with the death of guitarist Terry ...
Songstress Shelea Releases Her Debut Album, Love Fell On Me
SONGSTRESS SHELEA RELEASES HER DEBUT ALBUM, LOVE FELL ON ME AVAILABLE NOW Fresh Off A Spell-Bounding Performance at the 44th Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards Honoring Hal David Love Fell On Me Features Brian McKnight, Stevie Wonder and Collaboration with Narada Michael Walden Los Angeles, CA - Vocalist Sheléa (shuh-LAY-uh) releases her debut album, Love ...
David Binney: Lifted Land
by John Kelman
In a career that seems to go from strength to strength and milestone to milestone, it's hard to imagine how David Binney manages to not only release one terrific record after another, but to do so, in some cases, under some pretty constricting terms. Like the five other albums that the influential saxophonist/composer has recorded as ...
Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense: Moment & The Message
by Glenn Astarita
Trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson communicates a vibrantly rhythmic platform on Moment & The Message. His resume includes work with alto saxophone luminaries Steve Coleman and Steve Lehman; the album opener “Circus" is stylistically framed on pioneering woodwind legend Henry Threadgill's geometrically patterned compositions. But Finlayson rests on his own laurels with this debut solo effort. The set ...
Anthony Braxton: Sax Quintet (New York) 1998
by John Sharpe
Saxophone agglomerations are not without precedent in reedman/composer Anthony Braxton's copious playbook. Indeed, his “Composition 37" for four saxophones on New York, Fall 1974 (Arista, 1975) could be said to have launched the genre, bringing together as it did three of the founder members of the pioneering World Saxophone Quartet two years before their eventual formation. ...
