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Manhattan Jazz Venues
REZ ABBASI'S ACOUSTIC QUARTET (Friday) group featuring the vibraphonist Bill Ware, the bassist Stephan Crump and the drummer Eric McPherson. At 9 and 10:30 p.m. Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street, West Village (212) 989-9319 corneliastreetcafe.com MARCO BENEVENTO TRIO (Saturday) ...
Eddie Gomez: The Playing is Free
by Donald Elfman
Eddie Gomez is known throughout the world as a consummate bassist, sterling educator and a musician active in a wide variety of musical settings. He has been on the music scene for more than 40 years and has worked with everyone from Bobby Darin to Giuseppi Logan. Gomez moved from Puerto Rico as a child and ...
Lua Hadar with TWIST at the Cornelia Street Café, NYC
by Marc Nieson
Lua Hadar with TWISTJazz with a Twist of Français Cornelia Street Café New York, New York April 24, 2010 Say chanteuse and what comes to mind? A smoky Parisian cellar? A rain-slicked side street in Montmartre? Edith Piaf poised before a thick microphone, spilling her ever-rallying soul for romance and La ...
Delicate Force: Hank Jones (1918-2010)
It's unrealistic, but I thought that Hank Jones would be around forever: so I was unreasonably shocked to hear of his death at age 91. The obituaries speak of the musicians he played with so gloriously--from brothers Elvin and Thad to Charlie Rouse and Joe Lovano...to Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Hot Lips Page, Charlie ...
Dave Douglas & Keystone: Spark of Being; Preorder
Dave Douglas & Keystone is: Dave Douglas, trumpet; Marcus Strickland, Tenor Saxophone; Adam Benjamin, Fender Rhodes; Brad Jones, Ampeg Baby Bass; Gene Lake, Drums; DJ Olive, Turntable/Laptop SPARK OF BEING: BOX SET [3CD] (available for preorder at greenleafmusic.com) Part 1: SOUNDTRACK (out June 22nd) (available for preorder at greenleafmusic.com)
Greenleaf Music Relaunch Subscription Series
Starting with the release of Dave Douglas & Keystone, Spark Of Being [3-CD], Greenleaf Music is also launching a revamped version of our successful Subscriber Series. Many thanks to our Subscriber community for the critical feedback which helped craft many of these changes. While most if not all of the original features remain (the 20-30% store ...
MMW Live from Your Couch!
WATCH MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD LIVE...FROM YOUR COUCH! THIRD ANNUAL CAMP MMW AUGUST 1-6 Camp MMW applications are due June 21 Medeski Martin & Wood in association with Nevessa Production are proud to announce two very special live webcasts on June 9 & 10, 2010 at ...
Marathon of Music from Behind the Iron Curtain
Since Symphony Space inaugurated its Wall to Wall marathons with a salute to Bach in 1978, the series has usually focused on one composers works presented in a variety of ways. But occasionally these popular free events have embraced broader themes, like the Baroque era, folk music or opera. Wall to Wall Behind the Wall, ...
Pat Metheny: One Man's Band
by Tom Greenland
In plays such as Medea and Alcestis, the ancient Greek tragedian Euripides was roundly criticized, even parodied, for his use of an artificial plot device or deus ex machina ("god from the machine"), because it violated narrative logic and challenged the audience's suspension of disbelief. Guitarist Pat Metheny, never one to shy away from wrathful gods, ...
W. Eugene Smith and the Jazz Loft Project
From 1957 to 1965, W. Eugene Smith took thousands of photographs and recorded thousands of hours of audio in his loft building, capturing the legendary musicians of the day. Smith exposed 1,447 rolls of film at his loft, making roughly 40,000 pictures, the largest body of work in his career, photographing the nocturnal jazz scene as ...

