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Cuong Vu: More Than Just Notes
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Truculent blasts of white noise kissed with delay. Ghostly whispers evolving to plaintive cries. Soaring melodies comprised of bold, rounded notes. Trumpeter Cuong Vu's vast sonic palette was formed with intense dedication and by choosing nonconformist paths.After moving to New York in 1994, his sound quickly found a home with veterans like drummer Gerry ...
Planet Safety: Planet Safety
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Bob Gullotti, Leo Genovese and Dave Zinno really know how to end their pieces. This may seem incidental or, in any case, not a heavy matter. But it is, especially when you contrast it to the way many jazz musicians end their pieces, if they do at all. Too often, pieces are ended rather than left ...
Steve Harris Zaum: I hope you never love anything as much as I love you
by Kurt Gottschalk
With a background in jazz, improv, funk, rock and rhythm and blues it makes sense that Steve Harris' music didn't come off sounding like any one thing. The drummer, who died in January, 2008 at the age of 59, may have been as known for his efforts close to home as his recordings--he worked as Music ...
Greg Burk Quartet: Berlin Bright
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Pianist Greg Burk embraces deconstruction and counterpoint as a player and composer, so a playful method to the madness runs through his excellent new album Berlin Bright. The opener, “Fancy Pants," exemplifies how Burk solos and writes with mild chaos in mind. After the theme the tune fractures schizophrenically, with Ignaz Dinne soaring melodically up front ...
Jazz Sessions: The Greats on Camera at Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville NY
Thursday nights from May 29 to June 19, the Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) in Pleasantville NY will be screening films that capture some of Jazz's biggest names on camera. Q&As hosted by Grammy Award-winning bassist Todd Coolman. Coolman is head of Jazz Studies at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College and has performed or ...
Jarrett hits 25, a Hipp aunt, $2 pirates, Germany in Harlem and cozy Paris clubs
by Fradley Garner
Twenty-five years ago this January, pianist Keith Jarrett formed his trio with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette. They recorded “The Masquerade Is Over" without rehearsal or any arrangement. Who could know this partnership would survive for a quarter century? To celebrate this, the German ECM label has released My Foolish Heart, a CD box ...
Mary Lou Williams: A Grand Night for Swinging
by George Kanzler
If Mary Lou Williams had never resumed her career after she abandoned it for religious reasons in the early 1950s, her paramount place in jazz history would still be secure. As a pianist, composer and arranger from the late 1920s through the 1940s, she was the music's premiere female musician, working with the likes of Andy ...
Paolo Fresu/Richard Galliano/Jan Lundgren: Mare Nostrum
by Fred Bouchard
This magical debonair international trio reminds us once again of the porosity of walls between nations and fluidity of musical styles, as it flits through an enticing shadow world that recaptures Paris in the 1950s. Swedish Jan Lundgren's pointillist piano blends dreamily with Richard Galliano's poignant squeezebox and Sardinian Paolo Fresu's acerbic, haunted trumpet to raise ...
Lisle Ellis: Sucker Punch Requiem: An Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat
by Clifford Allen
Painter, graffitist and collagist Jean-Michel Basquiat was an unmistakable force in New York during the late '70s and into the '80s, certainly the latter decade's first American art stars and one of the art world's first black stars. Initially known by his tag SAMO (referencing both Sambo and “Same Old..."), he was championed by Warhol for ...
Matt Geraghty Project Release New Digital Single
The Matt Geraghty Project has released a new original Digital Single entitled 'East 3rd' capturing the multiculti vibe of the East Village and New York City. Recorded in New York City with some of the best musicians on the planet, 'East 3rd' features Grammy Award Winning Harmonica man Howard Levy, guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg, pianist Sean Wayland, ...
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