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Dave Frank: Portrait Of New York
by Dan Bilawsky
Jazz and New York are like hot dogs and baseball, or peanut butter and jelly. The Big Apple has been the epicenter of so many important movements and moments in jazz, that it's hard to think of any other place--save perhaps New Orleans--that deserves the honor of being captured in song. Pianist Dave Frank, widely recognized ...
Dave Frank: Portrait of New York
by C. Michael Bailey
New York-based Dave Frank is a piano style unto himself. With the most solid left hand playing jazz piano, Frank delights in composing and improvising the most devilish bass lines, defying Einstein's rule governing space and time. Frank's last recording, Ballads and Burners (Jazz Heads, 2007), amply demonstrated why Frank has a Jazz School named for ...
Fifty-Second Street West (Cafe Borrone, Oct. 15, 2010)
Because of the wonderful photographs that Charles Peterson and others took, some of my readers will be able to visualize the bandstand at Jimmy Ryan's sixty-five years ago—crowded with hot musicians jamming on, say, BUGLE CALL RAG, with every luminary in New York City eagerly improvising at the peak of their powers. Now imagine that scene ...
Chick Corea Trio at Highland Ballroom October 1, 2010
by David Miller
Chick Corea TrioHighline BallroomNew York City, USAOctober 1, 2010 Well, that was unexpected. Imagine a Chick Corea trio show where the pianist is not the centerpiece of the performance. In fact, his piano plays as much rhythm as the bass and drums. A trio of equals. Then you would have some ...
Jambalaya Live at Paddy Reilly's Music Bar on November 9th
New York, NY—Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing live in celebration of their new CD release It's a Jungle Out There on Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 7:00 pm at Paddy Reilly's Music Bar in New York, NY. The Jambalaya Brass Band is a group of seasoned musical pros from a variety of impressive previous musical ...
Pianist/Composer Dan Tepfer Releases Trio Album "Five Pedals Deep" on Sunnyside Records - October 26, 2010
Album features Dan Tepfer (piano), Thomas Morgan (bass) and Ted Poor (drums) CD RELEASE PERFORMANCE @ Jazz Standard October 26, 2010 (7:30 & 9:30pm) In his forthcoming trio release, Five Pedals Deep on Sunnyside Records, wildly inventive pianist Dan Tepfer plumbs the depths of conventional harmony, engaging pop modalities, minimalism, ...
Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University Conversations with Composers: Steve Coleman
As part of its Conversations Series, the Center's renowned faculty will engage leading composer Steve Coleman in a reflection on the role of improvisation in his creative life. Steve Coleman is one of the most influential saxophonists and composers of the last 30 years, as well as an important theorist of the music and its spiritual ...
"Chandler Travis Philharmonic Blows!"
Bandleader Chandler Travis and His Nonet Present a Party of an Album, “Chandler Travis Philharmonic Blows!" Released Oct. 12 on Sonic Trout New York, NY—From TV appearances on “The Tonight Show," “The Midnight Special," and Dick Cavett, to sharing stages with Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello and the late great comic George Carlin, Chandler Travis has had ...
Driving the Poem: Hettie Jones with Dr. Guy's Musiqology
Poetry and jazz is about one+one=one, the spoken word as instrument, its meaning become tone and tempo, another voice in the band. “Driving the Poem" takes its cue from Hettie Jones's first poetry collection, Drive, plus the complementary pulse of the music behind her. Hettie Jones's twenty-three books for children and adults include her memoir of ...
The Jazz Session #209: Danilo Perez
Several years ago, Danilo Perez became a father. On his new album, Providencia (Mack Avenue, 2010), Perez explores the lives of his daughters and commits himself, musically and socially, to leaving them a better world. In this interview, Perez talks about fatherhood; the diverse array of musicians in his band; and the many musical and other ...
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