Results for "New York"

Dave Douglas & Keystone play to film in NYC

October 13, 2010

On October 24th, 2010, Dave Douglas & Keystone play the Highline Ballroom in New York. More than a concert, this event will feature the East Coast Premiere of the Bill Morrison film, Spark Of Being. Douglas, who composed the soundtrack to the film and has since released a 3CD box set of the same title chronicling ...

Wein @ 85 with Newport All-Stars + Rudresh, Miguel, Ambrose, Bucky, Avishai & More!

October 13, 2010

Celebrate George Wein's 85th Birthday with the Newport All-Stars & Special Guests at Dizzy's October 19-24 at 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm NEW YORK, October 13, 2010—George Wein turned 85 on October 3, but his birthday celebration continues at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th and Broadway, October 19-24, ...

The Jazz Session #206: Jon Irabagon

October 12, 2010

The Jazz Session #207: Don Sebesky (CTI Records)

October 12, 2010

Grammy and Tony award winner Don Sebesky wrote and arranged music for many of the classic CTI recordings. You can hear his work on a new boxed set, CTI: The Cool Revolution (Sony Masterworks, 2010). In this interview, Sebesky talks about how CTI got started and how it developed its signature sound; his experience working with ...

All Nite Soul at Saint Peter's Church Tonight at 7pm!

October 10, 2010

From the desk of Fradley Garner Last Reminder: There are a few seats left for this Sunday, October 10, at 7:00 p.m., when over 80 musicians and many more fans meet at Saint Peter's Church, Manhattan, for the 40th annual All Nite Soul. This year's honoree is 88-year-old Frank Wess, an old-school tenor saxophonist and flutist ...

Jazz International

by Nick Catalano
October 9, 2010

More and more recordings from offshore jazz musicians keep arriving in my mailbox each month and they are beginning to outnumber domestic releases. This is an obvious sign of the exponential growth of internationalism in the music and a signal to American jazz critics that their reviewing responsibility must include ample coverage of this phenomenon.

Jazz Around Town: Autumn Leaves ... Now There's a Song

October 7, 2010

They are turning and falling and you know what will start falling soon. Our local jazz station, WGMC Jazz 90.1 is starting up their Fall pledge campaign soon and if you pledge early you get a special CD gift (more here). A little light later in the week, but here are the jazz listings for the ...

Nathan Eklund Group at Cecil's Jazz Club

by David A. Orthmann
October 6, 2010

Nathan Eklund GroupCecil's Jazz ClubWest Orange, NJSeptember 10, 2010 There wasn't a single defining moment in the Nathan Eklund Group's seventy minute performance at Cecil's Jazz Club. But the rewards of catching the band at the peak of its powers were spread out in one long wave, only briefly interrupted ...

Randy Ingram Trio @ The Kitano, Wed. Oct 13th

October 6, 2010

Randy Ingram Trio at the Kitano Randy Ingram, piano Matt Clohesy, bass Nate Wood, drums Wednesday Oct. 13th at the Kitano Hotel Sets at 8pm and 10pm 66 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016 kitano.com (212) 885-7000 (reservations recommended) no ...

Michael Formanek: The Rub And Spare Change

by John Kelman
October 5, 2010

With a discography that's growing with each passing year--expanding into territories new to both the label and music in general--it's difficult to understand the need for some to apply a reductionist stance to the music of ECM, whitewashing it with descriptions like “melancholy," or “Nordic cool." One listen to bassist Michael Formanek's ECM debut, The Rub ...