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How To Completely Miss The Point Of Music
by AAJ Staff
By Kevin Dorn Step 1: Take stylistic labels very seriously. Study all the various names for different styles of jazz, such as Mainstream, Traditional, Dixieland, Swing, Bebop, Hard bop, Post-bop, etc. Before you play, decide in which style you are going to perform. If possible, attend a class at a music school to learn ...
Alyssa Graham CD Release Event at Joe's Pub on January 16th
After touring the North East, Alyssa Graham will come home to NYC and celebrate the release of her Sunnyside debut, Echo at Joe's Pub. Since it's release Echo has been a NY TIMES CRITICS' CHOICE CD, has been hailed as “Stunning" by Jazz Times and has been praised by THE WASHINGTON POST when they described Alyssa ...
The Knitting Factory Finale in Fotos
Megafun performed the first set on the main stage on the final night of the Knitting Factory in Manhattan. The Knitting Factory has been celebrating noise and eclecticism since it opened on East Houston Street in 1987, and in its earlier days the club gained a wide reputation as a defining stage of downtown ...
Claude Jeter Gospel Singer with Wide Influence Dies
The Rev. Claude Jeter, the founder of the gospel group the Swan Silvertones whose delicate yet potent falsetto had a wide influence on both pop and religious singers in the 1950s and 60s, died on Tuesday in the Bronx. He was 94. A versatile stylist, Mr. Jeter once sang bass with the Dixie Hummingbirds. But he ...
Hank Johnson Trio Live at St. Michael's Cemetery!
The Hank Johnson Trio featuring Hank on piano, Gary Smith, on drums and “Cool Mike" Fitzbenjamin on bass will perform a live jazz concert in the chapel. St. Michael's is located in East Elmhurst, N.Y. (QUEENS) on Astoria Boulevard. 1:30 is showtime! It's free to the public, and all happening on Saturday, afternoon January 24th, 2009! ...
Maria Neckam @ Bar Next Door in NYC, Monday, Jan. 12th
“It wasn't just the unaffected clarity or refreshing timbre of her voice, nor her remarkable range that captured my imagination; it was the fearless integrity of her musical ideas.” --Bill Barnes, jazz.com MARIA NECKAM (voice and compositions) Live at BAR NEXT DOOR (La Lanterna) MONDAY, January 12th, 8-11:30pm at with Dan Tepfer (keys) and ...
Jill Newman Productions Presents Mos Def in 3 Nights at Blue Note, January 23-25
MOS DEF Produced by Jill Newman Productions in Three Nights at the BLUE NOTE JANUARY 23 - 25 Following a sold-out concert featuring MOS DEF at the Highline Ballroom on Friday, January 9, Jill Newman Productions presents the consummate emcee, vocalist, musician and actor on three nights at the Blue Note January ...
Young Men With A Horn: Ambrose Akinmusire & Vitaly Golovnev
by George Kanzler
Trumpeters Ambrose Akinmusire and Vitaly Golovnev were the winner and semi-finalist, respectively, in the 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition. On these debut albums as leaders, they reveal ambitions that go beyond expressing trumpet prowess, which they both have, to personal conceptions as composers and bandleaders. On that score, the two trumpeters' paths ...
Michelle Walker - Live @ Smoke Jazz Club - Weekend Show Just Added
Michelle Walker - Jazz Vocalist APAP WEEKEND - SHOW JUST ADDED LIVE @ SMOKE JAZZ CLUB SUNDAY JANUARY 11TH - 6:00PM-8:00PM SMOKE JAZZ CLUB 2751 Broadway NYC, NY between 105th and 106th Streets Take the #1 Train to 103rd Street FEATURING: NIKOLAZ HESS - PIANO Winner of the RAI competion Best European Jazz Pianist, Danish Pianist ...
AllAboutJazz-New York Best of 2008
by A. Henkin
MUSICIANS OF THE YEARAnthony Braxton Marilyn Crispell Hank Jones Roy Haynes Rudresh Mahanthappa RECORD LABELS OF THE YEARAUM Fidelity Clean Feed Intakt Jazzwerkstatt (Germany) Mosaic VENUES OF THE YEARCornelia Street Cafe (West Village) Jazz Standard (Murray Hill/Gramercy) Roulette (SoHo) The Stone (Alphabet City) ...
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