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Ansambl Mastika - Songs and Dances for Life Nonstop - CD Release Party

January 3, 2011

Ansambl Mastika Release for their new album, Songs and Dances for Life NONSTOP Saturday, February 5th, 10pm-midnight Barbes, 376 9th St at 6th Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn $10 suggested Ansambl Mastika, Brooklyn's favorite electric Balkan band, presents the release of their second album, Songs and Dances for Life ...

Stix Bones & Friends Live at the Paradise Theater

January 3, 2011

New York, NY, December 21, 2010—Stix Bones & Friends will be performing live on Saturday, January 29th, 2011, from 8:00 to 11:00 PM at the legendary Paradise Theater's Jazz Night on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. Built in 1929, The Paradise Theater is the 23d largest movie theater ever to be built in the US ...

Bill Taylor Remembered Thomas "Fats" Waller

January 3, 2011

By Daniel Kassell Billy Taylor was a generous man. His enthusiasm relating his memories of seeing Fats and how that influenced his piano style was contagious. To me “Billy was it! He cut it, man!" I offer this in tribute to our greatest jazz media personality. At the International Association of Jazz Educators Convention publicist Arnold ...

Do You Speak Bix? (Andy Schumm and His Bixologists at Whitley Bay 2010)

January 2, 2011

The title is not as fanciful as it seems. Bix Beiderbecke lived in and created his own world, much as Lester Young did—and it had its own private musical language. Think of the special break on SOMEBODY STOLE MY GAL, the modulation into the vocal on SUNDAY, and more. So when a group of musicians get ...

Jazz Around Town: 2011 Anyone?

December 30, 2010

Now, on to the listings. If there's a big jazz thing out there for New Year's Eve, no one has bothered to let the only jazz blog in town know about it. Let me know if I missed something and I'll add it tomorrow. So Happy New Year!!!  I'm going to be here at home, listening to ...

Tatum's Lounge: A Sculptural Homage to Art Tatum

December 27, 2010

From the Brooklyn based design studio Nine Stories Furniture Co has come an homage to the great Art Tatum in the form of a one-of-a-kind chair. A long time jazz enthusiast and furniture designer Andrew Rumpler, constructed the piece from the keys of a discarded upright piano. The piece, which weighs less than six pounds can ...

The Jazz Session #227: Christine Jensen

December 27, 2010

Lola Danza Sings Cornelia Street Cafe, Tuesday Dec. 28th at 9:30PM with Grey McMurray, Sean Conly, Jason Nazary

December 27, 2010

"With a stunning voice that elongates words and phrases with almost ethereal clarity, Danza follows her own muse stylistically, preferring the spare and airy to the busy and hot."—Bob Young Boston Herald This appearance at Cornelia Street Café will mark the premier of Lola Danza's latest musical works which will soon be released on her upcoming ...

Alan Ferber Nonet Plus Strings at Jazz Gallery on December 16, 2010

by Daniel Lehner
December 26, 2010

Alan Ferber Nonet Plus StringsThe Jazz GalleryNew York City, USADecember 16, 2010 Despite having fewer members than an average big band, the concept of a nonet plus an eight-piece string section seems like a huge undertaking. Even the sight of violins and cellos in front of the large small group in ...

Jazz Around Town: The Holiday Edition....

December 26, 2010

Sorry about the delay. Could be that the holiday spirit overtook me or I was shopping. Whatever, I didn't get to the post until this morning. Good thing I took a day off work so I can work on the post this morning. Not too much going on due to the aforementioned holidays, so I'll just ...