Results for "New York"

Let's Tribute Ourselves

by Vincent Gardner
December 15, 2009

Like many other jazz musicians, I am fortunate enough to travel all over the globe and present this wonderful music. While I haven't been playing professionally for an extremely long time--only about 15 years--during those years I have seen quite a bit of change in the world and on the jazz scene. Not that it compares ...

Chris Crocco Fluid Trio at Bar Next Door (NYC) on December 18th

December 14, 2009

Catch the Brooklyn Big Band at Cafe Iguana (NYC)

December 14, 2009

The Brooklyn Big band performs regularly at Cafe Iguana in NYC. The band, led by Tim Armacost and Craig Bailey, plays a blazing style of original music on the first and third Mondays of every month at Cafe Iguana, at 240 W. 54th st, just west of Broadway. The group is celebrating the release of its ...

Ruby Flower Records Appointed Dominic Duval as Artistic Director

December 14, 2009

Ruby Flower Records was founded in 2005 by Ana Isabel Ordonez, she wished to promote the music of New Jersey based trumpeter Herb Robertson and wanted to burn her passion for art and jazz founding a recording label in which the avant-garde music would be the priority. Both, Herb Robertson and Ana Isabel Ordonez became business ...

The Jazz Session #122: Rez Abbasi

December 14, 2009

Guitarist Rez Abbasi continues his rhythmic and harmonic explorations on Things To Come (Sunnyside, 2009). Hes joined on this album by pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, bassist Johannes Weidenmeuller, drummer Dan Weiss, cellist Mike Block and vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia. In this interview, Abbasi discusses the Indian-Pakistani jazz scene in New York; how he incorporates Indian ...

Jazz Icons, Series 4

by Ken Dryden
December 13, 2009

Jazz Icons Series 4 Naxos 2009 The fourth volume of the Jazz Icons DVD series, available individually or in a boxed set, compiles live videos by seven jazz greats never issued commercially, all with detailed liner notes and a bumper crop of period photographs. The performances are in black and ...

Ambrose Jackson

by A. Henkin
December 13, 2009

[Ed. Note: We are saddened to report that Mr. Jackson succumbed to a five-year battle with prostate cancer prior to publication of this article.] In the jazz world, an enormous amount of credence is given to the musician who appears on, to use the parlance, “countless sessions." Yet this ignores circumstances that can ...

December 2009

by AAJ Staff
December 13, 2009

Jesse Stacken and Kurt KnuffkeCornelia Street CafeNew York, NY November 8, 2009When pianist Jesse Stacken and trumpeter Kirk Knuffke played Cornelia Street Café (Nov. 8th) to celebrate their SteepleChase duo release Mockingbird, they surveyed not only Monk and Ellington tunes--the album's focus--but also demanding works by Lennie Tristano and Charles ...

Cedar Walton: Voices Deep Within

by Russ Musto
December 13, 2009

Since 2001, Cedar Walton's regular excursions into Rudy Van Gelder's legendary Englewood Cliffs studio for the HighNote label have consistently resulted in some of this century's finest mainstream jazz recordings. On Voices Deep Within he continues the tradition, once again demonstrating the vitality and endurance of (t)his music. Despite his ever growing popularity and critical acclaim ...

Billy Harper: Blueprints of Jazz, Vol. 2

by George Kanzler
December 13, 2009

Tenor saxophonist Billy Harper has been keeping the jazz fires kindled by the ritualistic, incantatory side of the classic John Coltrane Quartet stoked and burning bright for over a quarter-century. Here Harper's working quintet, augmented by a second bassist, presents a program redolent of the processional and the chant. Over it all, Harper's coruscating, brawny tenor ...