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Every Wednesday Through Saturday in July 2010 Live Jazz at the Kitano New York Hotel
NEW YORK, NY - The Kitano New York offers some of New York City's top jazz entertainers every Wednesday through Saturday in its Bar Lounge at 66 Park Avenue (at 38th Street) in Manhattan, featuring no cover charge for most performances. Throughout the month of July The Kitano New York Hotel will continue to showcase a ...
Jimmie Noone, Jazz Clarinet Pioneer
For those unfamiliar with the sound of clarinetist Jimmie Noone, here he is with his 1928 Apex Club Orchestra--Doc Poston, alto sax; Earl Hines, piano; Bud Scott, banjo; Johnny Wells, drums--playing EVERY EVENING (I MISS YOU) courtesy of “ptm51 on YouTube (see below). Noone (1894-1944) should be known to a wider audience today, and a new ...
Academic Series in Jazzy Surroundings
Maybe location really is everything. When Mannes College the New School for Music presents its annual summer festival concerts in its auditorium on the Upper West Side, they seem low key and academic, no matter how vividly played and well attended they are. But following in the footsteps of the Keys to the Future festival, which ...
New York "Play Me, I'm Yours" 60 Public Pianos
Two Week Public Art Project Kicks Off on June 21 at the Make Music New York One-day Festival Featuring 1,000 Free Musical Performances throughout New York City For Locations of Pianos and Performances and More Information, Call 311 or Visit NYC.gov Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, First Deputy Mayor Patricia E. Harris, Sing for Hope Co-Founding Director ...
Rocked by Waves of Drumrolls
A waterborne performance of Iannis Xenakiss Persephassa, with Robert Esler on drums, was part of the Make Music New York festival. The ducks that frequent Central Park Lake are used to keeping clear of people in rented rowboats lurching about the water. But on Monday afternoon they looked rattled by the strange sights and stranger sounds ...
Levi's Pioneer Sessions: Raphael Saadiq Covers the Spinners + MP3
Levis Pioneer Sessions keeps rolling out more recreations of classic hits, this time with Giant Step favorite Raphael Saadiq covering Its a Shame by The Spinners, the legendary Detroit ensemble. When Tony! Toni! Tone!'s Raphael Saadiq went solo, his goal was to modernize R&B without cutting ties with its past, creating complex tunes that honored Motown ...
Pat O'Leary's Nightingale
If you had asked me, a few months ago, to tell you all I knew about Patrick O'Leary, I would have said, “Wonderful bass player--a real melodic sensibility and strong time--and an extraordinary jazz cellist. Witty fellow, a good sort." And I would have directed you to some of the videos I've taken at The Ear ...
Guitarist Peter Douskalis Debut Solo Releases "The Dance of the Sea"
Peter Douskalis - The Dance of the Sea (Shenandoah, 2009) Now on sale at: amazon.com, CDBaby.com, and Guitar Nine Records “While he is a melodic player, Douskalis sometimes emulates an orchestra and pulls it off. Melody, harmony, bass lines all interact logically, sometimes making it sound as if more than one guitarist is on the CD." ...
Joao Gilberto Concert at Carnegie Hall Canceled
Because of international travel restrictions, the Joao Gilberto concert at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday night as part of the CareFusion Jazz Festival has been canceled. George Wein, the producer of the festival, said in a statement: I am heartbroken over this unfortunate situation. Joao Gilberto is one of the most important musical artists of our ...
Improvisational and Atmospheric Dialogues: A Tribute to an Avant-Gardist
The avant-garde composer and multireedist Anthony Braxton had plenty of words for his admirers at Le Poisson Rouge on Friday night, when it was officially his turn to take the stage. He talked about the striving of noncommercial artists. He referred to “geopolitical dynamics," adding that the world was still full of “men and women of ...
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