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Joe Lovano the Man Who Improvises with the Tenor Sax

April 26, 2009

SPONTANEOUS The saxophonist Joe Lovano in a performance earlier this month at Birdland in Manhattan. LAST October, acting on a whim, the saxophonist Joe Lovano showed up uninvited at the trumpeter Wynton Marsaliss show at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill. Horn in hand, he came ready to play and play he did, adding ...

Mark Soskin at the Kitano Hotel NY

April 26, 2009

The Five Peace Band, McLaughlin and Corea at the Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center

April 25, 2009

Looking to the Present While Peeking at the Past, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Christian McBride, Kenny Garrett and Brian Blade. The Five Peace Band, a jazz-rock juggernaut, presents a parody of abundance. Led by the guitarist John McLaughlin and the keyboardist Chick Corea both restless virtuosos, and legends at 67 the group works hard and fast, ...

New Release by Tom Hamilton/Bruce Eisenbeil

April 25, 2009

SHADOW MACHINE April 2009 Release SHADOW MACHINE is the first CD by Tom Hamilton and Bruce Eisenbeil, whobegan playing music together in 2007. Coherence without predictability,speed without tempo, direction without a roadmap - an unlikely foray intothe world of out-jazz and free improvisation. It's a duo that thwarts expectations of its specific instrumentation. The artists hybridize ...

Lou Reed Performed with His Metal Machine Trio, at the Blender Theater at Gramercy

April 25, 2009

All Those Sounds From the Stage: Processed, and Not Always Pretty It was good to have this Lou Reed back: not an American Master nor a Legend of Rock, but a barking, brooding, beneficial irritant. On Thursday night at the Blender Theater at Gramercy, onstage between Sarth Calhoun and Ulrich Krieger, two much younger musicians, he ...

AllAboutJazz-New York May 2009 Issue Now Available!

April 25, 2009

By now baseball season is in full swing, if you pardon the pun. And it is taking place in two brand new stadiums. Now don’t forget that you as taxpayers helped finance these sporting cathedrals. No one asked you and good luck getting tickets to any of the games. For those that believe in karma, a ...

Mike Baggetta Quartet CD Release Concert at Cornelia Street Cafe

April 25, 2009

Come celebrate the release of Small Spaces - the debut recording from the Mike Baggetta Quartet - on Fresh Sound New Talent Records. Copies of the CD will be available. Mike Baggetta - Guitar Jason Rigby - Saxophone Eivind Opsvik - Bass George Schuller - Drums Sunday April 26th

MODA Entertainment Announces Ellington on Ellington At Borders Honoring Duke Ellington's 110th Birthday

April 25, 2009

Borders Columbus Circle (in the Time Warner Center) in association with Legacy Recordings, ICON Collectibles and MODA Entertainment, is proud to present Ellington on Ellington on April 29th at 7PM in honor of Duke Ellington's 110th Birthday. Ellington's grandchildren Paul and Mercedes Ellington will speak and host a Q & A about the legendary musician and ...

Salute to an Andre Previn Artist of Many Talents

April 24, 2009

Some composers write music for anonymous performers, while others, like Andr Previn, prefer to tailor works to a particular muse. Mr. Previn, who has written pieces for musicians like the pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, has also been inspired by the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, who was one of the commissioners of his Trio ...

Emilio Santiago and Dori Caymmi, Rough, Side by Side with Smooth

April 24, 2009

Standing shoulder to shoulder on the stage of Birdland on Wednesday evening, Emilio Santiago and Dori Caymmi, two luminaries of Brazilian bossa nova, engaged in an intimate musical dialogue between the smooth and the rough. Smoothness was embodied by Mr. Santiago, nicknamed the Nat King Cole of Brazil, who has recorded since the mid-1970s and was ...