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Article: Album Review

Old Time Musketry: Different Times

Read "Different Times" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne

Brooklyn-based Old Time Musketry is a band whose moniker foreshadows one aspect of the sound it's after, steeped in folk music and Americana. But the quartet's debut, Different Times, contains so much more. First and foremost, Old Time Musketry is a jazz quartet. Sure there's quite a bit of accordion and clarinet on this recording, but ...

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Article: Interview

Donny McCaslin: Lightness and Gravity

Read "Donny McCaslin: Lightness and Gravity" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Saxophonist Donny McCaslin seems like a young player, given his energy and inventiveness. But he has been playing jazz for three decades. As a child, he was part of his father's jazz ensemble and a member of his high school jazz band. He led his own bands after moving to New York from his native California, ...

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Article: Album Review

Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project

Read "The Orchestrion Project" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

With The Orchestrion Project (Eagle Eye Media, 2012), Pat Metheny provided a detailed visual look into the workings of the guitarist's complex, custom-built conglomeration of instruments--triggered by pneumatics, solenoids and computer programs--that took this orchestral successor to the player piano (the first known version being the panharmonicon, in 1805) not just into a new century, but ...

News: Performance / Tour

Rescheduled: Janet Parrish At Westbeth Community Room In Westbeth On March 15

WESTBETH MUSICWORKS PRESENTS JANET PARRISH & FRIENDS THE HEART & SOUL ENSEMBLE WESTBETH COMMUNITY ROOM in Westbeth 155 BETHUNE STREET 8-10:30 PM $10 (suggested donation) Join vocalist, visual artist, performer, arranger, and vocal coach JANET PARRISH and her friends soul singer Bobby Harden, jazz stylist Eve Zanni, and cabaret artist Hal Miller ...

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News: Recording

Randy Simon Jazz Project Releases "Nyhavn Live"

Randy Simon Jazz Project Releases "Nyhavn Live"

Nyhavn Live is a 2-CD set of new jazz tunes performed for a live audience by a stellar quintet of Upstate New York musicians. This is the fourth release by the Randy Simon Jazz Project, which features the original compositions and arrangements of Randy Simon. Nyhavn Live features a mix of upbeat Latin tunes, wistful ballads, ...

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Article: Album Review

Matthew Shipp: Greatest Hits

Read "Greatest Hits" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

It takes more than a degree of chutzpah for any modern day jazzer to title a collection Greatest Hits, let alone a doyen of the avant-garde. But pianist Matthew Shipp has never shied away from controversy--indeed, on occasion has actively courted it. Slightly apologetically, sleeve note annotator Tad Hendrickson points out that the selections were those ...

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Article: Live Review

Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu Duo: New York, NY, January 24, 2013

Read "Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu Duo: New York, NY, January 24, 2013" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu DuoBlue NoteNew York, NYJanuary 24, 2013 Some musicians settle into a club and simply play a set of music, but that's never the case with Omar Sosa. The pianist treats every performance as a musical séance and an opportunity to bare his soul. It's hard ...

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Article: Album Review

Adam Berenson and Bill Marconi: A Codex of Silent Voices

Read "A Codex of Silent Voices" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Pianist/composer Adam Berenson is a mystery; his Facebook page features nothing about his music-making and, in its photo section, a couple of Jackson Pollock-like abstract paintings along with a Van Gogh-inspired seascape. The song titles on his numerous releases perpetuate the mystery--"Sepulchral Vicissitudes" and “Emotional Idiot," from Contextual (1999),and the title track to The Mystery of ...

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News: Recording

Guitarist/Composer Ken Hatfield Celebrates The Genius Of Harlem Renaissance Poet Langston Hughes With "For Langston", An Enthralling Song Cycle Drawn From His Blues-Steeped Verse

Guitarist/Composer Ken Hatfield Celebrates The Genius Of Harlem Renaissance Poet Langston Hughes With "For Langston", An Enthralling Song Cycle Drawn From His Blues-Steeped Verse

To Be Released February 1, 2013, Langston’s Birthday A supremely lyrical guitarist and award-winning composer with a deep love of literature, Ken Hatfield is always on the lookout for texts ripe for musical interpretation. He found an ideal muse in the great American poet Langston Hughes, whose rhythmically agile verse, marked by penetrating observations about love, ...

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News: Recording

New John Serry Album, "The Shift," Released

New John Serry Album, "The Shift," Released

The new album, The Shift (SPCo Records) from pianist/composer John Serry is now released and will be available at CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon MP3, Google Music Store and other online outlets, as well as directly from the artist. John Serry received a Grammy Nomination in 1979 for his arrangement of his composition, “Sabotage," on his debut ...


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