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New York Funk Legends the Funky Knights Return
New York, NY - It has been almost 20 years since New York City boogied to the sounds of funk music legends The Funky Knights. Imagine a mixture of Barry White, John Lee Hooker and Sam Kinison and you get the bare essence of what The Funky Knights are all about. Here's a band with three ...
Landon Knoblock's Creatures with Striking Features at Ibeam on Friday, Feb. 5th
Creatures With Striking Features will perform at Ibeam on Friday February 5 at 9:30pm. The group features Phil Doyle on saxophone, Jeff Davis on drums, and Landon Knoblock on rhodes. Ibeam is located at 168 7th St. Brooklyn, NY. F, R, and G trains to 4th Ave and 9th st. Click here for Google Maps.. ibeambrooklyn.com. ...
The Jazz Session #137: Matthew Shipp
To me, music is an occult alphabet of frequencies and vibrations that are transmitted on an instrument. So says pianist Matthew Shipp, whose new solo piano recording, 4D (Thirsty Ear, 2010) comes out on January 26. In this interview, Shipp talks about the joy of solo piano; the lessons he learned from David S. Ware and ...
Gotham Wind Symphony Release 3rd CD: "New Year, New Music"
Gotham Wind Symphony, a NYC-based 45-piece wind band, has released their 3rd CD, their first on the ArtistShare label, entitled: New Year, New Music. The CD features five premier recordings, three of which were commissioned by GWS. The music: Mike Holober- “Seven Gables"-Roam Poem #1 (premier, GWS commission) Jonathan Newman- “Avenue X" (premier) Bob Brookmeyer- “Ceremony" ...
Yaacov Mayman Borislav Strulev New Chamber Jazz at Iridium Friday, February 26th
Borislav Strulev -"He plays as if he were to the cello born. His sound, phrasing, coloring and technique already place him in position to follow the Russian tradition of cello playing. Watch this young man, and more importantly, listen to him." Byron Janis Yaacov Mayman, saxophone player, has been contributing his unique musical voice to the ...
Sam Sadigursky's Words Project III: Miniatures NY Debut Friday Jan. 29th at Galapagos Art Space (Dumbo, Brooklyn)
Sam Sadigurskys Words Project III: Miniatures NY Debut Friday Jan. 29th at Galapagos Art Space (DUMBO, Brooklyn) The highly anticipated New York debut of Sam Sadigurskys Words Project III: Miniatures, the NY-based saxophonist and composers third installment in the critically acclaimed Words Project series on New Amsterdam Records, will take place Friday January 29th at Galapagos Art ...
Chris Potter's Underground at The Village Vanguard, NYC
by Giovanni Russonello
Chris Potter's Underground Village Vanguard New York City January 10, 2010 Maybe there's something to be said for throwback music. It can feel comforting to hear new music laced with the crackle of an old LP, or the warm horn harmonies of a vintage gospel record. But as Gil Scott-Heron ...
Django at 100
by Stuart Broomer
Call it Django or Gypsy jazz, Hot Club, swing or Manouche (another name for gypsy), it's a style that hits you immediately--blazing, hard-picked runs played on a hyper-resonant, flat-top guitar (sound-holes are oval or D-shaped, never round), its intense momentum propelled by bass and rhythm guitar(s), often in tandem with violin, clarinet or accordion and working ...
Reaching Into The Unknown 1964-2009
by A. Henkin
Reaching Into The Unknown 1964-2009 Jacques Bisceglia/Steve Dalachinsky softcover; 440 pages ISBN: n/a Rogue Art 2009 Jazz and modern poetry seem ideally suited, in temperament if not exactly aesthetic. Though it is designed to mimic the cadences of a freeform improvisation, jazz poetry is still a ...
Feinstein's Presents Jazz Band Braden-Rapp in Their Debut CD Release of "The Strayhorn Project."
FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed Best of New York by New York Magazine, and an invaluable New York institution by The New York Post, will continue its star-studded Winter/Spring 2010 season with the debut of the new band led by world-renowned saxophonist, flautist and composer DON BRADEN and MARK RAPP, one of Downbeat Magazines ...
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