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Ken Peplowski Gypsy Jazz Band: Gypsy Lamento
by Martin Longley
This is a gypsy combo of the Django Reinhardt persuasion, rather than being fully-crazed wedding party cacophony. In fact, reedman Ken Peplowski makes matters even more specialized by concentrating on a preponderance of slow plodders rather than the frenetic hurtling that many gypsy jazz guitar outfits now prefer. The album's cover is slightly strange. Two pseudo-brides ...
Liza Minnelli Onstage: Resistance is Futile
Liza Minnelli performs Liza's at the Palace," at the historic vaudeville theater in New York City. Liza is still somebody's idea of entertainment. Witness the frenzied scene a few nights ago at Broadway's Palace Theatre, where Liza is doing a one-woman show through Jaunary 4. For one thing, she looks a lot better on a theater ...
Dave Allen Quartet at 55 Bar on December 14th
Dave Allen Quartet with: Mark Shim Drew Gress Ted Poor 10pm "Dave Allen is one of a number of spitfire jazz guitarists raising the bar on that ever- popular instrument. But Allen offers more than battle-ready chops—his Untold Stories and Real ...
Patrizia Scascitelli CD Release Party at the Italian Cultural Institute in NYC on January 21st
PILOO RECORDS presents: Patrizia Scascitelli Sextet New CD Release Concert Wednesday, Jan. 21th / 2009 @ 7:00 pm Italian Cultural Institute 686 Park Ave ( @ 69th St.) $ 10 Patrizia Scascitelli / piano and compositions Jamie Baum / flute ...
Rez Abbasi and R.O.C. Trio Grounded in Folk Tradition and Jazz Improvisation
Sounds Mixed and Matched Indo-Pak Coalition, a trio equally grounded in folk tradition and jazz improvisation, proposes a social pact as well a musical ideal. The groups name is partly self-descriptive the alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa is of Indian descent, while the guitarist Rez Abbasi was born in Pakistan but it also carries an ...
Jason Moran
by Martin Longley
Pianist Jason Moran usually plays well within the jazz tradition, but often adopts a sideways slant, open to electronic interference or maybe an askew cover version of a pop or rap tune. Growing up in Houston, he went on to study at the Manhattan School Of Music, becoming firmly entrenched on the New York scene.
Jessica Williams
by Thomas Conrad
It is hard to think of a jazz musician who has gone her own way more resolutely than pianist Jessica Williams. She works only on her own solo and trio projects, never as a sideperson. She engineers her own albums for her own label, Red and Blue, and sells them on her own website, which she ...
Avishai Cohen: Flood
by Jim Santella
In a suite of original compositions subtitled Part Two of the Big Rain Trilogy," trumpeter Avishai Cohen's pure, sweet trumpet tone and bent notes allow him to create sound pictures that depict gentle raindrops, a giant deluge, the eventual overflow and final sunshine to complete the cycle. Since his songscape relies on personal expression, the instrumentation ...
Kenny Werner: With a Song in My Heart
by Ken Dryden
Kenny Werner has long been active as a jazz pianist/bandleader, composer and jazz educator, having recorded around two dozen albums as a leader and many more as a sideman. He has performed with quite a few jazz greats, including Charles Mingus, Bob Brookmeyer, Lee Konitz and Toots Thielemans. He's also a sought after pianist by vocalists, ...
Total Music Meeting 2008
by Celeste Sunderland
English bassist John Edward's instrument is by no means pristine. Scuffs and scratches sully the top of its belly and the veneer is worn down on its left edge like a badge of improvisational fortitude. He stood on the stage in the auditorium of the Berlinische Galerie one night last month with his bass, two separate ...

