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Lennon Lyrics Fetch $1.2m at NYC Auction
John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to the final song on the classic Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band were purchased by an American collector on Friday for $1.2 million. The winning bid for “A Day in the Life" was placed by phone at Sotheby's auction house, which declined to identify the collector further. The ...
Queen of Soul Brings Down the House
Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson honored at Apollo. Franklin and Tucker share a laugh at Harlem's Apollo Theater spring benefit. Emcee Jaime Foxx urges everyone to cut loose at the famous theater. The Queen of Soul had the joint jumping. Leslie Uggams channeled Lena Horne to deliver a rousing “Stormy Weather." And emcee Jamie Foxx never ...
Freedom of the City 2010
by Ken Waxman
"To Thine Self Be True" is lettered above the stage at Conway Hall where London's annual Freedom of the City (FOTC) festival took place May 2nd-3rd. Although related to the philosophy of the Humanist Society that built the edifice, the slogan can be applied to the 16 sets that made up the festival. Organized ...
Premik Russell Tubbs with a Night of Originals
Premik Russell Tubbs will be joined with an ensemble of top NY players entertaining, stretching both sound and instruments, with a special segment of the evening dedicated to young composers on the rise. Lets just call this night coloring outside the lines as there are so many places to go! Some of the students joining in ...
Kadima Collective
by Stuart Broomer
When you first come across the recordings on Kadima Collective, a couple of things stand out. The first is that the label, devoted to free improvisation, is based in Israel; secondly, there's a good chance that the CD will feature a bassist, often one of substantial international stature, like Barre Phillips, Mark Dresser or Joëlle Léandre. ...
"Benny Goodman's Boys" (Plus Molly Ryan) on July 11, 2010
The PENNSYLVANIA JAZZ SOCIETY will present their annual JAZZFEST with a TRIBUTE TO BENNY GOODMAN on Sunday, July 11, 2010, from noon to 5:30 p.m. at the Plainfield Township Fire Company Hall, 6480 Sullivan Trail, Wind Gap, PA 18091. The two bands featured that day are THE MIDIRI BROTHERS and DAN LEVINSON'S PALOMAR QUARTET. The Midiri ...
Taylor & King a Pair of Durable Troubadours
They were a strange pair, actually: dry and wet. He, 62, with the guarded, narrow excellence of his fingerpicking, putting his voice through a heavy soul-compressor, like Marvin Gaye in a telephone booth; she, 68, practicing generosity, singing as loudly as possible and straining at the high edges, coming down hard on her songs pivot-point chord ...
Jazz Comes to Murray Hill Via Venetian Restaurant
Chic Venetian restaurant and lounge Zorzi located in Murray Hill (1 East 35th Street) will begin offering jazz on Saturday evenings from 8pm - 11:30pm in their main dining room. The weekly series, coordinated by Charles Carlini of In Touch Entertainment, begins in earnest on June 26 with the Grant Stewart Trio. For reservations or info, ...
The Jazz Session #178: Taylor Ho Bynum
Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum has his fingers in so many pies, he should open a bakery. In addition to his recent CD Madeleine Dreams (Firehouse 12 Records, 2009) with his band SpiderMonkey Strings, hes also on a new duo CD, Stepwise (Not Two Records, 2010), with drummer Tomas Fujiwara. And hes helping run the Tri-Centric Foundation, ...
Gil Scott-Heron Video: "I'm New Here"
Check out Gil Scott-Herons video for the title track to his album, Im New Here. Its a deliberately simple take on a sparse acoustic song, capturing him live in the studio with subtle background projections of his Harlem neighborhood. Herons first album in more than a decade, ...
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