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The Sarah Hayes Trio Featuring Benny Powell Perform at Piano Due Friday, Feb. 12
“Her song stylings exude personality and it's no wonder. This girl has charisma to spare. And with her innocent and unintentional naivet, she wins the hearts of all who experience her performance." -- Michael Andrew, Performer and Broadway Producer (The Nutty Professor) Vocalist Sarah Hayes takes the helm at Manhattan's newest music spot, the Palio Bar, ...
Leno to Letterman: Thanks
Jay Leno to David Letterman: Thanks for Super Bowl ad invite Leno said that “whatever happened in the last 18 years disappeared" when the two comics got together to film their surprise Super Bowl ad last week. “He was very gracious," Leno said Monday on his prime-time show, which ends Tuesday. “We talked about the old ...
Lil Wayne Sentencing Postponed in NYC Gun-Possession Case Because Rapper Needs Dental Surgery
The Grammy Award-winning rapper's sentencing in a New York City gun case was postponed Tuesday, because he needs to finish a string of recent surgeries before he goes to jail. Lil Wayne, one of music's biggest sellers and rap's hottest stars, is poised to spend as much as a year in jail under a plea deal, ...
The Jazz Session #141: Lee Shaw
Pianist Lee Shaw is living a fascinating life. From her childhood in Oklahoma in the 1920s to her early exposure to jazz in Chicago to her decades-long career as a jazz pianist, Shaw has been everywhere and played with just about everyone. In this interview, recorded at the Rotary Club of Albany, NY, Shaw talks about ...
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Summer Program in Italy
THE VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA SUMMER INTENSIVE WORKSHOP/PERFORMANCE PROGRAM IN ASSISI, ITALY FOR STUDENTS, MUSICIANS AND EDUCATORS The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra will be setting up residence in the hills of Assisi this summer from July 10 through July 15 The orchestras summer home will be open to students, musicians and educators from all over the world and ...
Kelley Suttenfield CD Release and Signing
Monday March 1, 2010, 6-7pm Mini-CD Release and CD signing BARNES & NOBLE Cool Mondays Series 1972 Broadway (@ 66th Street) New York, NY No cover/minimum “Smoky, sultry fumes emanate from Kelley Suttenfield's vocals like liquid fire. Here's a gal who puts ...
Miles Okazaki: Generations
by Wilbur MacKenzie
Generations, Miles Okazaki's second CD, displays the ornate structural latticework and solid foundation of a highly skilled conceptual architect. As a guitarist his tone is taut and balanced across the full range of the instrument, full of rhythmic and melodic nuance. Okazaki also shows thoughtfulness and creativity as a composer and bandleader, assembling a close-knit group ...
Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Vol. 1
by Russ Musto
Henry Threadgill's This Brings Us To, Vol. 1 marks the return of the iconoclastic saxophonist/flautist's Zooid ensemble, his primary public performance vehicle for the past decade. The quintet, although having undergone some significant changes since its previous disc, with bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi and multi-instrumentalist Elliot Humberto Kavee replacing cellist/trombonist Dana Leong and drummer Dafnis Prieto, ...
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: A Band in the Vanguard
by George Kanzler
Not only is this the 75th anniversary of the Village Vanguard, this month also marks the 44th anniversary of the Monday night residency of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (VJO), begun in 1966 as the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. Those Monday nights are a very significant part of the Vanguard's legacy as THE premier jazz club ...
Harris Eisenstadt
by Clifford Allen
One normally thinks of the drummer-bandleader chair in this music as easily given to a mentality that embraces “more is more." Whether bombastic or just plain full, drummers' bands often focus on mass, rhythm and time. In the post-free arena, leaders like Gerry Hemingway, John Hollenbeck and Harris Eisenstadt have learned not only that every instrument ...
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