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Sam Newsome & Lucian Ban: The Romanian-American Jazz Suite
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Sam Newsome and Lucian Ban took a handful of Romanian folk songs and gave them jazz arrangements, then combined them with some original songs inspired by Romanian culture to produce The Romanian-American Jazz Suite, an excellent balance of the modern and the traditional, rendered artfully by a first-rate band. “Transylvanian Dance" isn't what ...
Birdland Jazz Club Announces August 2008 Schedule
Birdland (315 West 44th Street - between 8th & 9th Aves.) is pleased to announce an exciting line-up of extraordinary entertainment for the month of August. A detailed schedule follows: Sam Harris Actor, singer, songwriter, soon-to-be talk show host and brand new father, Sam Harris, brings a new show to Birdland, featuring songs from ...
Charlie Hunter, Marc Ribot, Eddie Palmieri / Brian Lynch, Dafnis Prieto, Billy Martin, Randy Sandke, Billy Bang, Bennie Maupin and Arturo Sandoval
by Martin Longley
Charlie Hunter/Marc Ribot's Ceramic DogSullivan HallApril 17 & 23, 2008Before beginning his solo career, Charlie Hunter used to play guitar for The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, an early vehicle for Michael Franti's uncompromising rap outpourings. But Hunter's ultimate destiny was to re-invent himself as a jazz artist, neatly coinciding with ...
Diane Hoffman: My Little French Dancer
by Jim Santella
Honoring a departed friend through her latest album, singer Diane Hoffman tells stories that provide a clear glimpse of the heartache and depression that follow such a loss. Her “Farewell, Noelle" provides the facts while her interpretation of “When Did You Leave Heaven" provides the feeling. Tenor saxophonist Jerry Weldon, guitarist John Hart ...
Cleopatra's Needle Jazz Open Mic - Sundays and Wednesdays in NYC
By Simon Jay Harper The mellow sounds of a CD of alto-sax master Johnny Hodges (Duke Ellington's premier soloist for over forty years) fill the restaurant as the piano trio returns for the next set of the singer's open mic session. Cleopatra's Needle, or “Cleopatra's" as it is known, is the upper west-side jazz venue and ...
Uri Caine: The Classical Variations
by Stuart Broomer
The Classical Variations is, in effect, a commemoration of Uri Caine's decade-long series of ambitious and sometimes idiosyncratic explorations of classical repertoire from Bach to Mahler. It combines previously released selections from Caine's Winter & Winter CDs along with unreleased material. A little more than half the material has appeared in previous releases focused on Beethoven, ...
The Harry Allen-Joe Cohn Quartet: Stompin' The Blues
by Andrew Velez
The Harry Allen-Joe Cohn Quartet has been a happily-going entity for over five years. At this point its easy interplay radiates a joyful and a profound understanding of decades of jazz. The musicians know what they're doing and have fun doing it. This latest collaboration mixes some of saxophonist Allen's own tunes with some beauties from ...
Ed Reed: The Song Is You
by Elliott Simon
Ed Reed is a storyteller, one who pours both his heart and nearly 80 years of life experiences--which include vocal studies with Charles Mingus, time in the army and a drug addiction that landed Reed in prison on four separate occasions--into a phrase. On his recent first recording, Love Stories (2007), he debuted a lush tone ...
Joel Harrison: The Wheel
by Donald Elfman
Guitarist Joel Harrison has been quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) forging a path of adventure in modern music. Not necessarily content with arbitrary categories, he is discovering ways to utilize all the different musical streams of the world. He has used jazz improvisation as a starting point but it's never the be-all-end-all, the kind of ...
Sean Smith Trio @ 55 Bar on July 22
The Sean Smith Trio 55 Bar Tuesday, July 22 From 7:00-9:00 PM (early set) With: John Hart-Guitar Sean Smith-Bass & Composition Russell Meissner-Drums NO COVER! 1 Drink minimum The 55 Bar is located at 55 Christopher St., NYC (between 6th & 7th ...
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