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Brazilian Jazz at Shutters Cafe in May
The new jazz series at Shutters Cafe in New York, produced by Rose Petal Entertainment with Barbara Connelly for Off the Cliff Productions, presents a month of Brazilian music in May 2008. For a full list of performers, please see below. All shows take place at Shutters Cafe, located at 433 West 34th Street. Shows start ...
Sten Hostfalt & Blaise Siwula Live in New York City April 19
STEN HOSTFALT and BLAISE SIWULA LIVE IN CONCERT IN NEW YORK CITY Saturday, APRIL 19, 2008 at 8 pm> / free at STAIN BAR, 766 Grand St. Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY Sten Hostfalt - guitar Blaise Siwula - saxophones ...
Tickets for Vision Festival XIII on Sale Today
NEW YORK, NY -- Tickets for the 13th annual Vision Festival, coming June 10th through June 15th to Manhattan's Clemente Solo Velez Cultural Center, are now available online and by phone at 1- 800-838-3006. Tickets are $30/night in advance, $35/night at the door and $20 for students and seniors with ID. A festival pass is available ...
Yale Jazz Ensemble Opens Mingus Birthday Celebration at Iridium - April 22, 2008
The Yale Jazz Ensemble, led by Music Director David M. Brandenburg, will open for the Mingus Big Band on Tuesday, April 22, 2008, Charles Mingus' birthday, at 6:30 pm at the Iridium Jazz Club (1650 Broadway at 51st Street). The Ensemble will be joined by special guest Niko Higgins, saxophone. There is a $10 minimum with ...
The Florida Jazz Doctor: South Florida Jazz 2008
by Nick Catalano
A few weeks ago I traveled to Florida to set up radio-TV appearances and signings for my latest book New York Nights. While there I had the opportunity to attend a performance in the South Florida Jazz series--an outgrowth of older area societies such as Gold Coast Jazz. The present series utilizes the Miniaci Performing Arts ...
Gary Morgan & PanAmericana!: Felicidade
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Gary Morgan's orchestrations are an absolute feast. He thrives on the diverse rhythms of Latin America and the Caribbean and his arrangements are clever and energetic. Recently he led his powerhouse big band, PanAmericana, through a show at the New York City Baha'i Center in support of their new release Felicidade. There was little overlap between ...
Joe Giardullo Open Ensemble: Red Morocco
by Marc Medwin
In an interview broadcast on Taran's Free Jazz Hour last November, New York reedman Joe Giardullo likened the music on this new large ensemble disc to the collective improvisation emerging from early 20th century New Orleans. His point was that those musicians were more concerned with their own parts rather than with the act of listening ...
Danilo Perez Big Band: Panama Suite
by George Kanzler
Recorded in Boston with students and faculty of both the Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory in the band, this suite by Danilo Perez commemorates five years of the Panama Jazz Festival, where it was also first sold this January. The CD is short, presenting only the quarter-hour suite, described as a three-movement ...
Buffalo Collision, Ravi Coltrane, Charles McPherson, Ray Anderson and Bob Stewart
by Martin Longley
Buffalo CollisionRoulette 24 March 2008They call their band Buffalo Collision, giving no small hint of their wiry-maned intentions. Two generations of improvisers meet at Roulette, the experimental music space in SoHo. Pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer Dave King are two-thirds of The Bad Plus, who in their youth, were prone to gazing ...
Whit Williams Now's the Time Big Band: Featuring Slide Hampton and Jimmy Heath
by George Kanzler
Here's more proof of the vitality of the regional jazz scene around this country. Veteran saxophonist and jazz educator Whit Williams began this big band in Baltimore in 1981 and over the years it has accompanied Aretha Franklin and played Ellington's Night Creature" with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Here guests Jimmy Heath (tenor sax) and Slide ...

