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News: Performance / Tour

A Touch of Noir & Shades of Jazz on Noir Film-Concert Series

A Touch of Noir & Shades of Jazz on Noir Film-Concert Series

A Touch of Noir brings about a new music approach to classic film noir history correcting the disembodiment that existed in the original scores, making a dark and ominous dramatic effect. The improvisers will combine blues and swing and some written excerpts with the film “A Touch of Noir” simultaneously. The effect of this live performance ...

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News: Recording

Boz Scaggs to Release New Album "Speak Low"

Boz Scaggs to Release New Album "Speak Low"

Five years after his first volume of standards, But Beautiful, debuted at # 1 on the Billboard Jazz chart, GRAMMY award winning musician Boz Scaggs offers his second volume of standards and ballads, aptly titled Speak Low (out September 30 on vinyl and wide release on October 28th via Decca). The multi-dimensional singer, whose 1976 album ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Sten Hostfalt with Calmer at Public Assembly in NYC

Sten Hostfalt with Calmer at Public Assembly in NYC

Jazz Guitarist/Bassist/Composer Sten Hostfalt appears Live in Concert with Calmer (aka Collin Palmer) at Moodgadget Records/Ghostly International's C M J Party at PUBLIC ASSEMBLY NYC (formerly Galapagos Artspace) on OCTOBER 23 at 11pm ($5) also performing are : (front room) The Little Death NYC feat. M O B Y, Laura Dawn, Daron Murphy, Aaron ...

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News: Recording

New Release Coming Soon from Impressus Records

New Release Coming Soon from Impressus Records

Coming soon! Edus Tonus, a new CD release on Impressus Records. Featuring Edoardo Marraffa (tenor sax/sopranino), and Tonino Miano (piano). About Impressus Records A bold duo with a pungent, forward-pushing sound where familiar lines are often blurred into a tumultuous outpouring of dynamic gestures, creating an overall texture of unequivocal character. IMPRESSUS RECORDS [From Latin impressus, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Steve Swallow: Swallow Songs & Dedicated to Steve

Read "Steve Swallow: Swallow Songs & Dedicated to Steve" reviewed by Fred Bouchard

by Fred Bouchard

Mellow, majestic, mischievous--smooth mnemonics come to mind when listening (or even thinking) about bassist Steve Swallow's music. The estimable (nay, venerable) progenitor of jazz electric bass (or is it Monk Montgomery?) has more basslines up his sleeve than Svengali had pigeons, and his sinuous sleight-of-hand with chord progressions dazzles with its deceptive "ease" of ...

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News: Recording

Test of Time Reissues Duke 'N' Bird by al Haig

Test of Time Reissues Duke 'N' Bird by al Haig

Test of Time Records is proud to announce the remastered reissue of Al Haig's Duke 'N' Bird. his unique solo piano album recorded on May 6th 1976 at New York’s Vanguard Studios. It is being released now on CD for the first time in the U.S. Al Haig was born in Newark, ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazz for Obama: A Concert for America's Future

Read "Jazz for Obama: A Concert for America's Future" reviewed by Greg Thomas

by Greg Thomas

Jazz for Obama 92nd Street Y New York, NY October 1, 2008 Jazz, to some, is apolitical, a refuge of artistic purity in the midst of a cultural and commercial wasteland. To these persons, art is hermetically sealed from world affairs. Yet there comes a time in the affairs of men ...

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News: Event

Jazz Interlude 15th Anniversary - Roy Haynes, Bob Cranshaw, and Jeremy Pelt

Jazz Interlude 15th Anniversary - Roy Haynes, Bob Cranshaw, and Jeremy Pelt

Benefit Honors Agnes Gund and David Rockefeller, Jr., Co-Founders of MoMA's Friends of Education, And Trustees of the Museum WHAT: Jazz Interlude: Honoring Agnes Gund and David Rockefeller, Jr. WHEN: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 WHERE: The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street (between Fifth and Sixth ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Awkward Bill Rides Again Live @ ABC No Rio in NYC on October 19

Awkward Bill Rides Again Live @ ABC  No Rio in NYC on October 19

Awkward Bill Rides Again at ABC No Rio NYC Sunday October 19, 2008 at 8.45pm / $5 Blaise Siwula - saxophone Lex Samu - trumpet Chris Welcome, Sten Hostfalt and Ken Silverman - guitars + more musicians T B A ...

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News: Event

CNY Jazz Orchetra Series Opens with Dennis Mackrel

CNY Jazz Orchetra Series Opens with Dennis Mackrel

On Saturday, October 25th at 8pm, the CNY Jazz Arts Foundation will officially open their 13th season with a concert by the CNY Jazz Orchestra with special guest artist Dennis Mackrel, famed drummer with the Count Basie Orchestra and McCoy Tyner Big Band, an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and educator. The event will take place in ...


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