Results for "New York"

Luba Mason Debuts Krazy Love with Kava Kava Band

September 12, 2008

Luba Mason's sneak preview performance of KRAZY LOVE at Birdland Tuesday, October 7th 8:30 PM and 11 PM 315 W 44th St New York, NY 10036 212-581-3080 LUBA MASON “KRAZY LOVE... a cool Brazilian mood" with her band KAVA: Dario Eskenazi (piano) John Benitez (bass) Sandro Albert (guitar) ...

Hard Jazz & Funk! The Phibes, Cold Flavor Repair and Tom Phonic @ The Knitting Factory

September 12, 2008

Jamie Baum Septet: Solace

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
September 12, 2008

Jamie Baum is a rare improvising flutist who doesn't double from another instrument. For nearly a decade she's led an ambitious septet with French horn, trumpet and alto saxophone joining the frontline, propelled by piano, bass and drums. Doublings on alto flute, bass clarinet, flugelhorn and Fender Rhodes extend the ensemble's wide sonic and textural terrain. ...

Danilo Perez: Across the Crystal Sea

by Joel Roberts
September 12, 2008

Pianist Danilo Perez' Across the Crystal Sea, his ninth album as a leader, succeeds better than most jazz with strings efforts because the orchestral arrangements, by legendary composer and producer Claus Ogerman, work with, not against the improvisations of Perez and his top-notch trio. This is no repeat of the hackneyed formula of jazz players soloing ...

Agents of Mayhem NYC

September 11, 2008

Agents of Mayhem :: 08.24.08 :: Spiegelworld :: New York, NY I couldn't believe my eyes as Jon Gutwillig was put in hand cuffs by a NYPD police officer. As I looked around, others seemed either transfixed at the scene or totally unaware of what was going on. “Fuck the police!" somebody behind me yelled. Then ...

Various Atists: Early Trane: The John Coltrane Songbook

by Joel Roberts
September 11, 2008

There's no shortage of Coltrane tributes out there, but HighNote's Early Trane is a worthwhile addition for the exceptionally high quality of the artists involved and for its focus on Coltrane compositions written in the early stage of his solo career between 1957-62. This was a period that produced such landmarks as “Giant ...

Virginia Mayhew: A Simple Thank You

by Ken Dryden
September 11, 2008

Virginia Mayhew has been a part of the New York City jazz scene since 1987 when the San Francisco native enrolled in the New School's Jazz Performance program and was awarded its Zoot Sims Memorial Scholarship. The tenor saxophonist played with a variety of bandleaders including Earl “Fatha" Hines, Al Grey, Junior Mance, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Joe ...

Tuxedomoon to Play Rare US Gig in New York City

September 10, 2008

Legendary art-rockers Tuxedomoon--formed in San Francisco in 1977, dormant through much of the 1990s, and reborn in 2004 with their original line-up intact--will play a rare US gig at Poisson Rouge in New York on September 17. Over the past 21 years, Tuxedomoon have played only four times in the US, and are today usually more ...

Meridian Arts Ensemble to Play Concert at Manhattan School of Music

September 10, 2008

The Meridian Arts Ensemble will celebrate the release of its Timbrando CD with a special concert at the Manhattan School of Music, Friday, September 12th, 7:30 p.m. Timbrando (Portuguese for making a tone or sounding, related to the word timbre) is a cross cultural travelogue of music the group collected while on tour in Latin and ...

Roy Hargrove: Earfood

by Tom Greenland
September 10, 2008

Trumpeter Roy Hargrove's 15th release, Earfood, is one of his best, showing that this not-so-young lion is in top shape. The disc features Justin Robinson (alto/flute), Gerald Clayton (piano), Danton Boller (bass) and Montez Coleman (drums), with Robinson's gushing alto ebullience, slightly loose around the edges, the perfect foil for Hargrove's eclectic moods, which range from ...