Results for "New York"

John Hollenbeck: Rainbow Jimmies

by Lyn Horton
May 29, 2009

In 2007, percussionist and composer John Hollenbeck won a Guggenheim Fellowship he used to study the extent to which the violin can be pushed instrumentally. To do this, he worked with consummate violinist Todd Reynolds and vibraphonist Matt Moran and created “The Gray Cottage Studies," which provide the majority of pieces for Rainbow Jimmies (the remaining ...

Cameron Brown: Here and How! Volume 2!

by Florence Wetzel
May 29, 2009

Bassist Cameron Brown has had a long and illustrious career as a sideman. He has appeared on around 100 recordings, providing an anchor for luminaries such as Archie Shepp, Roswell Rudd and Beaver Harris, as well as the celebrated Don Pullen/George Adams Quartet. In 2003 Brown stepped out as a leader with Here and How!, culled ...

Claire Martin Styles Sly Cy Coleman Songs Blas to Brokenhearted

May 28, 2009

What goes on the road, stays on the road, is how the English jazz singer Claire Martin described When in Rome (I Do as the Romans Do), one of 15 songs with music by Cy Coleman at Tuesdays opening night performance of Witchcraft, her show with Richard Rodney Bennett at the Oak Room of the Algonquin ...

Jann Kloses Reverie Continues to Build in the U.S. and Abroad

May 28, 2009

New York City, May 2009: Jann Klose's album REVERIE is continuing to build momentum. The record has already become a critical favorite in regional America and is as the LA Weekly states becoming a minor hit, heard on over 100 radio stations worldwide, including Sirius XM Radio in the U.S., the BBC in the U.K. and ...

The New School Brazilian Jazz Ensemble: Choro - The Bebop Of Brazil at New School, NYC

by Budd Kopman
May 28, 2009

The New School Brazilian Jazz EnsembleChoro: The Bebop of Brazil--125 Years of Instrumental GeniusThe New School Jazz Performance SpaceNew York City, New YorkMay 7, 2009 The New School Brazilian Jazz Ensemble was founded in 1995 by guitarist Richard Boukas, a world-renowned expert in Brazilian music, to both promote ...

Right Hemisphere: Right Hemisphere

by Florence Wetzel
May 28, 2009

In the early '80s, saxophonist Rob Brown and pianist Matthew Shipp played as a duo, eventually forming a quartet with William Parker on bass and Whit Dickey on drums and releasing the CD Points on Silkheart in 1990. Flash-forward to the present, where Joe Morris has taken over the bass chair, and the group has released ...

Paul Motian: Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. II

by Ted Gordon
May 28, 2009

This is indoor music: music for contemplating, sitting and smoking, letting it smolder in the ears and grow. Paul Motian, the veteran drummer whose mature, idiosyncratic percussive language has been shaped by years of playing with Bill Evans, Paul Bley, Keith Jarrett and others, shines on this album: he seems completely at home, considered, even slow ...

Nu Band: Lower East Side Blues

by Robert Iannapollo
May 28, 2009

To those who thought The Nu Band was a one-shot group, witness Lower East Side Blues, its fourth album since 2003 and first recorded in a studio. With such busy schedules it seemed as if four musicians of this caliber--trumpeter Roy Campbell, alto saxophonist/ clarinetist Mark Whitecage, bassist Joe Fonda and drummer Lou Grassi--couldn't stay together ...

The Donny McCaslin Group to Perform at Smalls (NYC)

May 27, 2009

Saxophonist/Composer Donny McCaslin will be performing with his Group at Smalls in New York City on Friday & Saturday June 19th & 20th, 2009 – Sets at: 10:30 & 12:00 AM
 Donny McCaslin - Tenor Sax Lage Lund - Guitar Hans Glawischnig - Bass Adam Cruz - Drums SMALLS

Sten Hostfalt / Blaise Siwula @ Freddys NYC May 29

May 27, 2009