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Ann Hampton Callaway at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola.
Ann Hampton Callaway’s self-reinvention from a lachrymose piano-bar chanteuse into a jazz swinger progressed a step further on Tuesday evening at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, where she added a new pose to her arsenal of attitudinal stances: pugilistic bossiness. Punching out “The Best Is Yet to Come,” that optimistic swinger by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, ...
James Moody Headlines “Moody & Friends” Benefit Concert for Jazz Scholarships at Purchase College
Legendary jazz saxophonist and NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Jazz Master James Moody will headline the annual “Moody & Friends” Benefit Concert for jazz scholarships at Purchase College on March 30, 2009 at 7:30 PM at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill. Moody will be joined by an ensemble of renowned jazz musicians. The concert ...
Don Braden: Gentle Storm
by Ken Dryden
Don Braden has come a long way since his days at Harvard, where he studied engineering along with playing in the university's jazz band. Over two decades into his career in jazz at the time of these recording sessions, the tenor saxophonist is very much at the top of his game. Joined by pianist George Colligan, ...
Steve Swell's Rivers of Sound Ensemble: News from the Mystic Auricle
by Jeff Stockton
Journeys. Greek religious artifacts. Oracles that send into the mystic. Trombonist Steve Swell and his Rivers of Sound Ensemble direct its stream-of- consciousness improvisations toward the deepest sea of musical inspiration it can find. Swell's Slammin' the Infinite piano-less quartet has been expanded before--on Live @ the Vision Festival (Not Two, 2007), when ...
Denise Donatelli: What Lies Within
by Marcia Hillman
Every now and then--in the sea of good but interchangeable, up-and-coming female vocalists--arrives a distinctive voice. Denise Donatelli is such a voice. Backed by Geoffrey Keezer (piano/arranger), Carl Saunders (trumpet), Bob Sheppard (reeds), Peter Sprague (guitar), Hamilton Price (bass), Marvin “Smitty" Smith (drums), Carlos Del Rosario (organ), Giovanna Clayton (cello) and Alex Acuna (percussion), the LA-based ...
Mark Winkler "Gets It Right" on Ninth Release
With the release of Till I Get It Right, Mark Winkler's ninth release and his first on FreeHam Records, jazz critics are already raving about the veterans latest creation. Jonathan Widran of Jazziz writes, “Always sly and cool, yet passionate as a vocalist, his wonderfully compelling, distinctively vivid lyrics tell tales that ...
Gnosis Featuring Herb Robertson at The Yippie Cafe (NYC) on February 21
7:30PM GNOSIS: Jim Yanda (guitar), Herb Robertson (trumpet), Tom Sayek (drums), Chris Lough (bass), & special guest Bob Hovey (trombone) 9:00PM ANDERSON MODERN MUSIC: Sean Anderson (reeds), Fred Anderson (drums), Lex Samu (trumpet), Chris Lough (bass) February 21, 2009 The Yippie Cafe 9 Bleecker St. New York, NY 10012 $10 ...
Tim Kuhl's "3" @ Goodbye Blue Monday
Tim Kuhl's “3" is a project of free form experimental music performed by some NYC's most talented and adventurous musicians, in a trio setting ... This show also features the Kami Quintet in town from Paris, France. You should really check them out!! “3" features... 9p - Tim Kuhl + Jon Irabagon + Eivind ...
Terence Blanchard's Words and Music
By Barry Johnson, The Oregonian Saturday February 14, 2009, 8:15 AM The Portland Jazz Festival started off this year with Terence Blanchard, the New Orleans hard-bop trumpeter/band leader/ and film-score composer. He headlined the opening-night concert Friday and he was the first Jazz Conversation earlier in the day. The ...
Ken Peplowski / Jesper Thilo: Happy Together - Live At Birdland Volume One
by Andrew Velez
Ken Peplowski and Jesper Thilo have much more in common than the solid expertise of each on both tenor saxophone and clarinet as demonstrated here. The two effortlessly and authentically bring the Swing Era to vibrant life anew. With “Peps," who began his professional career with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, one has only to hear the ...
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