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Laff House Comedy Club brings Derrick Gardner to Philadelphia
International jazz trumpeter Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets to perform Sunday, August 14 at 7 p.m. at Laff House Comedy Club located at 221 South St. Laff House Comedy Club features live jazz on the first Sunday of every month in the Jazz on South Street series. Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets will be ...
Philadelphia's jazz elders riff on the golden times
The walls of Conference Room 310 at WRTI are lined with a gray cushion that dulls sound. To the roomful of elderly jazz musicians who came of age in smoky, boisterous clubs, the acoustics can be challenging. “I can't hear a thing in this room!" exclaims Morris “Mo" Bailey, stationed in a motorized wheelchair at one ...
Ortlieb’s Jazzhaus Revival
A close source says Avram Hornik (Drinker's Tavern, Drinker's Pub, Drinker's West, Lucy's Hat Shop, Noche) has acquired Ortlieb's Jazzhaus and plans to reopen it as a jazz club. Records confirm that Hornik's 4 Corners Management shares the same address as ORT JAZZ LLC, the name of the applicant in the just posted liquor license application. ...
Popped! Philadelphia Fest: Pretty Lights, Girl Talk, the Shins
FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FULL LINE-UP TO BE HELD IN PHILADELPHIA SEPTEMBER 23 AND 24 IN FDR PARK The POPPED! Music Festival is back with a vengeance this fall in Philadelphia, PA. To take place Friday, September 23, and Saturday, September 24, this is the first year the festival will be held outside on the lush grounds of ...
Norman David Eleventet: Philadelphia, PA May 27, 2011
by Victor L. Schermer
Norman David Eleventet Little Bar Philadelphia, PAMay 27, 2011 With the closing of Zanzibar Blue and Ortlieb's Jazzhaus, Philadelphia has lost two of its iconic jazz clubs, further diluting an already limited constellation of venues. So it's encouraging to see music coordinators Greg Matthews and Mike Boone taking up some of ...
AACM | John Szwed on the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
For Ars Nova Workshop's AACM: Great Black Music Festival, we've asked several leading jazz scholars and journalists to engage performers in a series of pre-concert public discussions about the history, present, and future of the AACM. At 6pm on Saturday, June 4 at Philadelphia Art Alliance, Sun Ra and Alan Lomax biographer and Columbia University professor ...
AACM | Great Black Music, 6/4-13
Presented in Philadelphia by Ars Nova Workshop from June 4-13, AACM | Great Black Music is a festival of performances and public discussions with scholars and writers celebrating the past and present work of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Founded in Chicago in 1965, the AACM's motto is “Great Black Music, Ancient ...
AACM | Francis Davis on Henry Threadgill
For Ars Nova Workshop's AACM: Great Black Music Festival, we've asked several leading jazz scholars and journalists to engage performers in a series of pre-concert public discussions about the history, present, and future of the AACM. At 6pm on Sunday, June 5 at Christ Church Neighborhood Theatre, award-winning jazz journalist and author Francis Davis will talk ...
Philly Jazz Musicians Joining Hands to Benefit African AIDS Orphans
A Note of Hope: an evening of jazz featuring John Blake, Jr., Gerald Veasley, Sumi Tonooka, and Rosella Clemmons Washington May 20, 2011, 7:30 p.m. A Note of Hope is a benefit concert featuring Philadelphia's own John Blake, Jr., Gerald Veasley, Sumi Tonooka, Harry Butch Reed, and Rosella Clemmons Washington. All proceeds from the event will ...
George Duke, Marcus Miller, David Sanborn (DMS) at the Keswick Theatre on June 2nd at 8pm
Fans of the crossroad where funk meets jazz should save the date for when George Duke, Marcus Miller and David Sanborn join musical forces for a legendary performance at the Keswick Theatre on June 2 at 8PM. The possibilities of this super Soul-Jazz summit are endless as the realm of their catalogues and capabilities span decades. ...
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