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The Willie Williams Trio: Comet Ride
by Jim Santella
To this program of eight original compositions, saxophonist Willie Williams adds a medley of two tunes each by Eddie Harris and Jimmy Heath as well as a closing romp on the ever-faithful “Caravan." His combination of fresh originals and familiar standards gives this trio album its vitality, demonstrating a love for past generations of the jazz ...
Oliver Lake: Zaki
by Jeff Stockton
Jazz music continually tries to outpace the long shadow cast by its past. On the one hand, it's the music of the vanguard, an art form built on a spirit of risk-taking and experimentation. On the other, the progressive spirit started with Charlie Parker and extended by Ornette Coleman (and several others) seemed to have stopped ...
Melody Breyer-Grell: Fascinatin' Rhythms: Singing Gershwin
by Marcia Hillman
Melody Breyer-Grell and the Gershwin songbook make a good combo on this, her second release, ably abetted by Don Braden (sax), Jim Rotondi (trumpet), Gloria Cooper (piano), Dean Johnson (bass), Matt Wilson (drums), John Hart (guitar) and Kahil Kwame Bell (percussion). The vocalist's classical and musical theater training blends well with the richness of George's harmonies ...
Ray Charles & Betty Carter Celebrated at the Blue Note
On Sunday, April 20th, soulful duo Dwight & Nicole (Dwight Ritcher & Nicole Nelson) will help celebrate the lives of legends Ray Charles & Betty Carter with an afternoon of music in their honor at the Blue Note, 131 W 3rd St, New York, NY for two shows 12:30pm & 2:30pm. For tix (212) 475-8592 or ...
Loren Stillman: Trio Alto Volume 2 & Blind Date
by Tom Greenland
Loren Stillman Trio Alto Volume 2 SteepleChase 2007 Loren Stillman Blind Date Pirouet 2007 Loren Stillman's latest projects, Trio Alto Volume 2 and Blind Date, both give evidence of ...
William Hooker: The Seasons Fire
by Laurel Gross
There's that iconic story about Elvin Jones, the man who altered the course of jazz drumming by seeking new sounds. Once at a gig in a bar as a young man, a customer came up to him and said, “Hey, make some noise." Relating the incident to Lewis Nash in a 1977 interview, Jones added: “People ...
Salim Washington: Live at St. Nick's
by Jim Santella
Long a Friday night fixture at St. Nick's Pub in New York's Sugar Hill section, Salim Washington's Harlem Arts Ensemble--the leader on tenor, flute and oboe, pianist Donald Smith, violist Melani Dyer, bassist Aaron James, drummer Mark Johnson and trombonist Ku-Umba Frank Lacy, who also plays a mean flugelhorn--shares fresh ideas with an aware audience on ...
Lou Donaldson: Lush Life
by Jeff Stockton
Lou Donaldson's Lush Life is the sort of mysterious lost session that inexplicably fell through the cracks from time to time at Blue Note Records during their wildly productive 1960s and the sort of collectable that used to make vinyl hawks salivate. This January 1967 session, unreleased until 1980 when it debuted in Japan under a ...
Jason Lindner Live in NYC! March 14, 15 + 19
Friday, March 14: The Jazz Gallery presents NOW VS NOW TRIO Jason Lindner-keys Panagiotis Andreou-bass+vcls Mark Guiliana-drms Sat Mar 15: The Jazz Gallery presents NOW VS NOW FULL ON GROUP ...the trio PLUS Avishai Cohen (trumpet) and Baba Israel (beatbox dub poetics) 9:00/10:30, $15/$10 ...
Members of the the Brooklyn Jazz Underground Announce the Launch of Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
BJURecords Kicks Off This Spring With Its First Three Releases From Alexis Cuadrado, Anne Mette Iversen and Bernard Emer Lackner Ferber - Available on April 22 “Consider this the opening shot in the latest revolution to hit New York's improv scene." -- Time Out New York “Think of it as a mix-tape, a calling card from ...
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