Results for "New York"

Marian McPartland: Twilight World

by Graham L. Flanagan
November 21, 2008

Jazz icon Marian McPartland turned 90 years young in March, 2008, and the special occasion produced an all-star party at Dizzy's Club in New York. National Public Radio has made some of the performance available online as part of the legendary pianist's weekly radio series Piano Jazz, an institution since 1979. As if 2008 couldn't be ...

Sten Hostfalt/Blaise Siwula at Goodbye Blue Monday NYC Nov 21

November 20, 2008

Michele Rosewoman's Tribute to Orlando 'Puntilla' Rios

November 20, 2008

Legendary Cuban percussionist and vocalist Orlando 'Puntilla' Rios passed away August 12, 2008. Along with several tribute concerts to him taking place in the coming months, Puntilla's former student and colleague, pianist Michele Rosewoman, paid tribute to him with the below article. Born in Havana, Cuba, percussionist/vocalist Orlando 'Puntilla' Rios is revered ...

Tracking Composers on the Run

November 20, 2008

A beloved song can conjure all manner of associations: a time, a place, a loved one. For Steven Blier, a pianist and the artistic director of the New York Festival of Song, Alexander Zemlinskys Meeraugen suggested a concert. From that lone spark came Fugitives, a program that Mr. Blier presented with Kate Lindsey, a mezzo-soprano, and ...

Jacqui Naylor Returns to the Blue Note

November 20, 2008

Vocalist/songwriter showcases material from brand new CD at December show Vocalist and songwriter JACQUI NAYLOR will perform at The Blue Note on Tuesday, December 16, 2008. At this concert, Naylor and her band will play tunes from her recently-released seventh recording, You Don't Know Jacq. Naylor will sing songs from this new CD as well as ...

Eric Person: Rhythm Edge

by Fred Bouchard
November 20, 2008

This fleet suite of 78 minutes fans out like a brilliant kaleidoscope of musical events, dovetailing thematic ideas and playful brief solos. After an elastic spooky turn on the Jerome Kern classic “Yesterday," a panoply of 13 originals leads down merry paths of ear-tweaking modes and startling arpeggiated lines at rattlingly good but often-shifting tempos. Rhythm ...

Sten Hostfalt & Blaise Siwula Live in NYC November 20th

November 19, 2008

WHO: Sten Hostfalt - guitar Blaise Siwula - saxophone/clarinet WHEN: 9 pm Thursday November 20 2008 WHERE: Stain Bar 766 Grand St Williamsburg BKLYN NY (L to Grand) AND WHEN: 11.20 pm Thursday ...

Jimmy Owens and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Musics Improvisation Ensemble to Perform at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola

November 19, 2008

December 15, 2008, Sets at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. NEW YORK, NY - The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Musics Improvisation Ensemble presents a tribute to Dizzzy Gillespie and Tom McIntosh under the direction of Jimmy Owen with special guest Wycliffe Gordon on trombone on Monday, December 15, at Dizzys Club Coca Cola at Lincoln ...

Gene Bertoncini / Roni Ben-Hur: Jazz Therapy, Volume 1: Smile

by Karen Hogg
November 19, 2008

Smile, the inaugural CD from Motema's Jazz Therapy series, comes from guitarists Gene Bertoncini and Roni Ben-Hur and benefits a very worthy cause. The proceeds from the album, the first recorded collaboration between the pair, go to the Dizzy Gillespie Memorial Fund at Englewood Hospital, providing free medical care to jazz musicians in need.

Dave Brubeck: Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-2007

by George Kanzler
November 19, 2008

One of the paradoxes of jazz is that the individual is highly valued, yet iconoclasts are often undervalued, either by critics or audiences. Pianist Dave Brubeck has had no trouble attracting fans over more than half a century, but critics have been less embracing, often saying he doesn't swing. Brubeck became wildly popular ...