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Winter Jazzfest, New York City, Day 2: January 8, 2011

by Gordon Marshall
January 13, 2011

Day 1 | Day 2 Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 7-8, 2011 Vernon Reid's Artificial Afrika Slick and heavy electric forays characterize the work of veteran guitarist Vernon Reid. However far into space he goes, his instrument is always under control; usually, his music is ...

Jazz Around Town: So the Snow Didn't All Come in December! Here's Some Jazz to Melt It....

January 13, 2011

Writing this post after shoveling out our driveway (and digging my car out on Park Ave.) for nearly two hours is painful, but it is a labor of love.  The Tamir Hendelman concert on Sunday, part of the Exodus to Jazz series was great! I leave you with an image (compliments of jazz image maker John ...

Winter Jazzfest, New York City, Day 1: January 7, 2011

by Gordon Marshall
January 12, 2011

Day 1 | Day 2 Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 7-8, 2011 What with the snow, the lines, the standing-room-only crowds, New York City's Winter Jazzfest can be a hectic, hectoring hell of force-feeding, a speed-read tasting menu of mad musical difference, as hard to digest in the instant ...

Sten Hostfalt's K*MOD at Shrine NYC Friday Jan 14, 2011

January 11, 2011

Sten Hostfalt's K*MOD Live at Shrine NYC Friday January 14 2011at 6pm (2 sets) / $10 suggested Described as Genuinely Innovative and Groundbreaking by Don Williamson of Jazz Review, Impressive by Time Out NY, Inimitable by Paper Magazine as well as Virtuosic, Original and Highly Exceptional by legendary icons of American music Joe Maneri, George Russell ...

Winter Jazzfest, New York City, Day 2: January 8, 2011

by Daniel Lehner
January 11, 2011

Day 1 | Day 2 Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 7-8, 2011 Kirk Knuffke Quartet Trumpeter Kirk Knuffke certainly has an enthusiasm for the “hot" jazz of the 1920's, even if it isn't straight from the source. Knuffke's quartet--co-fronted by trombonist Brian Drye, and backed by ...

The Jazz Session #230: Jason Stein

January 11, 2011

Dave Liebman: A New York Story

by John Kelman
January 10, 2011

A few months shy of 65, saxophonist Dave Liebman may be having the busiest time of his career, now in its fifth decade. In the past 12 months, nearly a dozen releases have demonstrated the tremendous stylistic breadth of a musical oeuvre that kicked into high gear early, when, in the short span of three years, ...

APAP 2011: NEA Jazz Masters Awards Concert and Jazz Forum on January 11th

January 10, 2011

NEA Jazz Masters Awards Concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center APAP SPECIAL EVENT 1/11/2011 1:00 PM-2:00 PM Jazz at Lincoln Center (Rose Hall) Jazz Forum APAP SPECIAL EVENT 1/11/2011 3:00 PM-5:00 PM Hilton (Gramercy Suite A) Session Description Click here ...

Leila Adu finds Harmony with the Voiceless In "Ode To the Unknown Factory Worker" Album Release

January 10, 2011

Leila Adu celebrates global CD release on Rai Trade/Tracce, the Italian National Radio label New York, NY—Leila Adu reemerges to the international music scene on January 18th with her powerful new album “Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker." The 11 song CD is a raw musical travelogue of uncertainty and triumph in the exciting nomadic life ...

Winter Jazzfest, New York City, Day 1: January 7, 2011

by Daniel Lehner
January 9, 2011

Day 1 | Day 2 Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 7-8, 2011 Since the informal move of jazz to the cities in the 1930s, the lore and legend of jazz compositions have lain in streets and places. The most common ones were the clubs, where innovations in jazz were ...