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Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 2009-2010 Season

March 22, 2009

Jazz at Lincoln Center and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, announced the 2009-10 season. Programming featuring concerts, education events, broadcasts, touring and a line-up of guest music directors. This is the organizations 23rd season of programming and begins the sixth season in its home, Frederick P. Rose Hall. Highlights of the season include the Jazz at Lincoln ...

Changing Sounds of Africa

March 22, 2009

COOLLY elegant in a brown pinstripe pantsuit and a pageboy bob, the singer Mariam Doumbia, 50, sat in a lounge of a chic new hotel on the Bowery. She appeared slightly bored. She was on a publicity tour with her husband, Amadou Bagayoko, to promote the new Amadou & Mariam album, Welcome to Mali (Nonesuch), and ...

Jazz Guitarist Ron Jackson Tours Spain

March 22, 2009

John Burnett Swing Orchestra: West Of State Street / East Of Harlem

by Nic Jones
March 22, 2009

Accolades from the likes of Buddy De Franco and Louie Bellson might lend this band additional legitimacy as keeper of the flame, but its sheer love for the music, as manifested in countless ways here, is more than sufficient in itself. In times like these it takes love as much as anything else to put music ...

Eric Lewis Interpreting Classics of an Alternative Kind

March 21, 2009

The jazz pianist Eric Lewis recently said that when he first listened to the rap-rock band Linkin Park, the sound of its singer, Chester Bennington, put him in mind of John Coltrane. He also said that Linkin Park made him think of Miles Davis and Elvin Jones and Puccini. Seriously: it’s in an interview on the ...

A Guest Guitarist Who Needed No Introduction

March 21, 2009

Eric Clapton got right down to business with the Allman Brothers at the Beacon Theater on Thursday night. Taking the stage to a welcoming roar — his guest turn, while unannounced, was by no means an airtight secret — he picked up his light blue Stratocaster and dug into “Key to the Highway,” a Big Bill ...

Making Music with Less

March 21, 2009

LIKE many musicians who play for the handful of small professional orchestras outside of New York City these days, Gabriel Schaff, a violinist, is struggling to cobble together a living. Mr. Schaff, 49, has contracts that guarantee work with four orchestras, including the Stamford Symphony Orchestra and Long Island Philharmonic. He substitutes in others, including the ...

Ken Ard, Vocal Sensation, with Pianist Mark Berman at the Metropolitan Room

March 21, 2009

Dynamic Baritone Ken Ard, with Mark Berman and His Trio, Live at The Metropolitan Room, NYC, Monday, March 23 at 9:30 pm New York, NY - March 21, 2009 - Rising star vocalist Ken Ard brings his sultry baritone back home from his European tour with the American songbook: Jazz 101, featuring Mark Berman, playing what ...

Sonny Fortune Quartet at the Turning Point (NJ) on Monday, April 6th

March 21, 2009

Jazz Great The Sonny Fortune Quartet Monday April 6 8PM-11PM Monday Jazz at the Turning Point CafFeaturingSonny Fortune - saxophone Michael Cochrane - piano Bill Moring - bass Steve Johns - drumsTwo sets 8pm and 9:30pm / no minimum $20-one music charge for the ...

Devin Richards to Sing at Any Wednesday Series @ Barnes & Nobles Lincoln Triangle

March 21, 2009

Come and hear Devin sing songs from his debut CD My Own Voice on LMGJAZZ as part of Any Wednesday series at Barnes and Nobles @ Lincoln Triangle - April 1st, 2009 @ 6:00 p.m. Songs include: “I Wanna Make Music" “'Ol Man River" “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" and “With Every Breath I ...