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AllAboutJazz-New York January 2009 Issue Now Available!

December 27, 2008

With our January issue featuring our Best Of 2008, we give our readers plenty of reason to brave the chill winds of winter. Please browse our two-page spread (pgs. 26-27) for categories such as Record Labels, Debut Albums, Boxed Sets as well as Albums and Performances of the Year. Even as jazz becomes more and more ...

Sten Hostfalt / Blaise Siwula Live @ Stain NYC January 3

December 27, 2008

Appearing monthly at Stain Bar NYC since December '07, and together in a total of 21 live events during 2008 including shared events with among others Daniel Carter, Herb Robertson and Tim Berne, STEN HOSTFALT guitar and BLAISE SIWULA saxophone returns to Stain January 3, 2009 * at 7pm / one set only, no cover, no ...

John Costelloe 'Sopranos' Johnny Cakes Dead in Suicide

December 26, 2008

Police: 'Sopranos' actor who played gay cook 'Johnny Cakes' dead in apparent suicide in NYC Police say the actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on The Sopranos has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in New York. Police spokesman Lt. John Grimpel says John Costelloe was found dead in an ...

Renato Sellani

by Thomas Conrad
December 26, 2008

Renato Sellani does not have to play the piano to charm you. At the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia in July of this year, he could be seen walking his small dog Briciola through the crowded piazzas. At 82, he walks carefully, with a slight stoop. They were an endearing pair: Sellani impeccable in striped blazer ...

Curtis Fuller: The Opener

by Graham L. Flanagan
December 26, 2008

What a rare privilege it is to review a new entry in Blue Note's esteemed RVG reissues series knowing that the featured artist can still be caught at venues around New York City. Such is the case with trombone virtuoso Curtis Fuller, whose 1957 Blue Note debut The Opener has been remastered courtesy of the great ...

Brooklyn Boogaloo Blowout Releases the Knickerbocker 7"

December 25, 2008

The Brooklyn Boogaloo Blowout has released a brand new, 2 song, 7" vinyl only album. “The Knickerbocker 7"" is available only on vinyl or via digital download. Side A features Leah Siegel singing the classic “I Got Loaded" with killer solos from special guest J Walter Hawkes on trombone and Andrew Sherman's B3. Side B is ...

Wayne Escoffery: Hopes and Dreams

by George Kanzler
December 25, 2008

There's a distinguished history of tenor saxophonist and vibes player combos in jazz, including Lucky Thompson/Milt Jackson and Harold Land/Bobby Hutcherson. But those combos featured bands with piano. Tenor Wayne Escoffery and vibraphonist Joe Locke put more emphasis on their teamwork by eliminating the piano in Escoffery's Veneration quartet--quintet on three tracks featuring guest trumpeter Tom ...

Medeski Martin and Wood: Zaebos: Book of Angels, Vol. 11

by Graham L. Flanagan
December 25, 2008

Just take a moment to absorb this disc's exhausting title; yeah... this probably isn't what you should pick up after drawing the name of your Erskine Hawkins-loving grandpa when figuring out whose Secret Santa you're going to be; that is, unless said grandpa has a penchant for atonal, acid-tinged klezmer-jazz. Hey, you never know. To the ...

Hanukkah Receives Kosher Pop New York Welcome

December 24, 2008

Matisyahu, the kosher-pop singer, welcomes Hanukkah with his Festival of Lights series, which continues this week and next at Webster Hall in the East Village and the Music Hall of Williamsburg, in Brooklyn. Matisyahu deployed what may be the only large, mirrored, rotating dreidel in show business — a Jewish answer to a disco ball — ...

Richard Bliwas Performs on Paula's Party

December 24, 2008