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News: Award / Grant

A Big Night for Broadway, and Especially for Billy

June 8, 2009

Broadway productions with roots in the London theater dominated the 63rd annual Tony Awards on Sunday, with Billy Elliot winning best musical and nine other awards and God of Carnage picking up honors for best play, best director and best actress. While several categories were unusually competitive this year because of the large number of strong ...

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #61: Lisa Sokolov

June 8, 2009

Listen Lisa Sokolov is not like any singer you've ever heard before, and she is certainly one you need to hear. In this interview, Sokolov talks about what singing is and how shes arrived at her unique approach to performance and arranging. She also talks about A Quiet Thing, writing haiku in her sleep, and the ...

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News: Festival

The Bloom Festival at the Tea Lounge Thursday and Friday Nights in June

June 7, 2009

The JVC Jazz Festival is gone, but The Tea Lounge in Park Slope has brewed something strong and new: The Bloom Festival, curated by journalist Lara Pellegrinelli and violist Tanya Kalmanovitch. The two longtime friends had talked time and again about collaborating on various projects and finally thought the timing was right. “Since George Wein has ...

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News: Recording

Neel Murgai Ensemble CD Release

June 7, 2009

The Neel Murgai Ensemble announces the release of their Debut recording, “Audionomic Stimulus Package". “Music is a reflection of the times. This is our stimulus of vibrations into the global dialogue, a cross-cultural mlange only possible at this time: the Ancient Future Traditional.” Sitarist, overtone singer, frame drummer and composer Neel Murgai creates music that defies ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Debbie Reynolds Still Here, a 1950s Sweetheart Shows Her Dark Side

June 7, 2009

How could a star with a 60-year show business career and a personal life that has made headlines not take away from the experience a profound sense of the absurd? As Debbie Reynolds, 77, speed-rapped, did celebrity impersonations and sang (sort of) at Wednesdays opening-night performance of Debbie Reynolds: An Evening of Music and Comedy at ...

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Article: Book Review

John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression

by Tom Greenland
June 7, 2009

John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression John Brackett Hardcover; 248 pages ISBN: 0253220254 Indiana University Press 2009 Coming to grips with the prolific and ungainly output of composer/improviser/sonic scavenger John Zorn is a Herculean task. In John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression, the first book-length treatment of this ...

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Article: Live From New York

June 2009

by AAJ Staff
June 7, 2009

Brad MehldauVillage VanguardNew York City May 6, 2009When Brad Mehldau acknowledged the presence of Hank Jones in the audience at the Village Vanguard (May 6th), he recalled being 16 and hearing Jones at Bradley's, an experience that helped set Mehldau on his current path. Although steeped in the intimate jazz ...

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Article: Film Review

Trying To Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon

by Michael Steinman
June 7, 2009

Jack Sheldon Trying To Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon Bialystock & Bloom, Inc./February Films 2009Born in 1931, the near-legendary West Coast jazzman Jack Sheldon—trumpeter, singer, comedian, actor—has played and recorded with Stan Kenton, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Peggy Lee, Benny Goodman, Red Norvo, Bill Harris, ...

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Article: Film Review

Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis: Live From Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

by Jerry D'Souza
June 6, 2009

class="f-left"width=150 height=208 > Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis Live From Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC Eagle Rock Entertainment 2008 Singer Willie Nelson, country music outlaw, and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, jazz music ideologist, may well have seemed strange bedfellows when it came to performing together. This DVD of their ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews