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Big Jazz on SmallsLIVE
by Bob Kenselaar
Since its launch in 2010, the SmallsLIVE record label has been offering a substantial sampling of the outstanding jazz talent consistently featured at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City's Greenwich Village. Musicians who appear on the label range from the great veterans Harold Mabern and Jimmy Cobb to contemporary players at the top of their ...
John Hollenbeck: Songs I Like a Lot
by C. Michael Bailey
There are four potent musical personalities at play on Songs I Like A Lot. The first is the erstwhile leader, drummer John Hollenbeck, musical raconteur and general high-art roustabout. He has had a long association with vocalist Theo Bleckmann, both in big band settings on A Blessing (Omnitone, 2005) and with Claudia Quintet on What Is ...
The 2013 Israeli Jazz Musician Festival, Presented By NOHO Media Group In Association With The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Will Feature An Ensemble Of Notable Israel-born Jazz Musicians
Music and Multi-Media Event Will Take Place May 12 through May 14 in Manhattan and Brooklyn New York City is the “jazz capital of the world," a fact that is enhanced, to a large extent, by the constant influx of astounding talent from across the globe. Among the many jazz musicians who have come to NYC ...
Jazz Near You Improvements: April 2013
We wanted to announce some recent Jazz Near You website improvements as we forge ahead with iOS app development. In addition to fixing a few minor bugs, we also improved the appearance of the calendar so it looks less like a spreadsheet. Larger text, a new way to present dates, and most importantly, a “Buy" (ticket) ...
Gregg Kallor: A Single Noon
by Dan McClenaghan
Solo piano recordings are risky. Even the acknowledged masters of the form--Brad Mehldau, Keith Jarrett--fall flat from time-to-time. Somehow, outside of an interactive ensemble, magic seems harder to conjure. Pianist Gregg Kallor tries his hand at going it alone on A Single Noon, a nine movement suite, a musical ode to life in New York City.
Works: Michel Gentile-Daniel Kelly-Rob Garcia Proudly Releases Their Debut Recording, Works
CD Release Celebration @ The Cornelia Street Cafe - July 11! “Michel has the instincts of a leader." —Jimmy Giuffre “Daniel Kelly is a pianist and composer who confidently splits the difference between murky history and sleek progressivism." —The New York Times WORKS, featuring Michel Gentile (flute), Daniel Kelly (piano) and Rob Garcia (drums), is the ...
The Moving Sidewalks: New York, NY, March 30, 2013
by Mike Perciaccante
The Moving Sidewalks B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill New York, NY March 30, 2013 Before the beard, before ZZ Top and before the dawn of the '70s, Billy Gibbons was the guitar slinger for another Texas-based band. The Moving Sidewalks were active during the late '60s--1967 to 1969, to be ...
Take Five with Aruan Ortiz
by AAJ Staff
Meet Aruan Ortiz: Named “the latest Cuban wunderkind to arrive in the United States" by BET Jazz, this classically trained violist and pianist from Santiago de Cuba, considers himself “a curious person who loves music," and portrays his music as an architectural structure of sounds, incorporating contemporary classical music, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and improvisation as primary material ...
Various Artists: Rework_ Philip Glass Remixes
by Nenad Georgievski
In these modern times, remixing is seen as merely another way of reinterpreting someone's work. Just like jazz or rock artists reworking old standards or classics in their own way, so, too, do remixers apply a modern method of interpreting people's songs, compositions--or, their entire oeuvre.According to Wikipedia “the remix is an alternative version ...
Bibi Ferreira: New York, NY, April 14, 2013
by Ernest Barteldes
Bibi Ferreira Alice Tully Hall New York, NY April 14, 2013 On her first-ever New York City performance, the legendary Brazilian actor, singer, conductor and theater director Bibi Ferreira took the stage at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall backed by a 20-piece orchestra conducted by maestro João ...
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