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Jazz Bridge Presents Chelsea Baratz!
Appearing at the Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church, 13 E. Mt. Pleasant Ave, Philadelphia, PA, on Thursday November 11th will be saxophonist Chelsea Baratz and her band. One show: 7:30-9PM. Tickets: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. Free Refreshments! For info: 215-517-8337 This concert is sponsored by Jazz Bridge, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that assists our local jazz ...
Jazz Bridge Presents Hal Galper!
Appearing at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 145 W. Rose Tree Road in Media, PA, on November 17th, will be pianist Hal Galper and his band: Bassist Tony Marino and drummer Billy Mintz. One Show: 7:30-9 p.m. $10/$5 students. Free refreshments. Galper is internationally known as an educator. His theoretical and practical articles have appeared in six ...
Michele Rosewoman's New Yor-Uba featuring Pedro Matinez in "A Musical Celebration of Cuba in America," Saturday October 23rd at the Painted Bride (Philadelphia)
"With delicate beauty and intensity, Michele's music bends the borders of cultures, not just notes. ...She has picked up a variety of torches and created a bonfire." —JAZZIZ MAGAZINE Painted Bride's Jazz on Vine series in association with Habana | Harlem presents world-renowned pianist-composer Michele Rosewoman's New Yor-Uba ensemble: A Musical Celebration of Cuba in America—a ...
The Future of Jazz Comes to the Michener Art Museum
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Jazz Nights at the James A. Michener Art Museum will offer a taste of the future with the Nazir Ebo Jazz Group November 20. Ten-year-old Nazir Ebo started playing his brother's drums when he was 5. Last year, filmmaker Ken Burns selected the fifth-grader for a jazz program. Since then he has performed at the ...
Interview: Andy Laster
Clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer Andy Laster has been involved in New York City’s jazz scene since the mid-1980s, when he relocated upon completing studies at Seattle’s Cornish Institute. Since then he has worked with musicians such as Julius Hemphill, Hank Roberts, Cuong Vu, and Erik Friedlander. In preparation for this week’s performance by his Sounds of ...
New Orleans Feast and Jazz Jam in Chestnut Hill (PA) on October 17th
Come hear Jim Holton, Cindy Leblanc and friends! Authentic New Orleans dinner prepared by All About Jazz's gumbo central gourmand Wade Luquet. Chestnut Hill United Church (Directly across from Chestnut Hill Hospital) Sunday, October 17, 5pm-8pm $20 includes food and music. Musicians eat free! For more information: 215-242-9321 ...
Guest Post: Henry Rollins on Matthew Shipp
Henry Rollins has been a fiery tongued advocate for independent music and creative culture since he was the frontman of seminal hardcore band Black Flag in the early 1980s. He has since released numerous solo music and spoken word albums, written several books on travel, politics, and music (including Get in the Van: On The Road ...
Trumpet Legends Terence Blanchard and Hugh Masekela to Perform over the Course of Two October Evenings at the Annenberg Center
The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents not one but two Grammy award-winning trumpet players over the course of two October evenings. First, Grammy award-winning trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard takes the stage on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 7:00 PM to perform music from his beautifully haunting and impassioned song-cycle, A Tale of God's ...
The Artwork of Cal Schenkel at Roller's Flying Fish in Chestnut Hill on September 26th (2-6pm)
The Art Of Cal Schenkel, with music by Jim Dragoni Sunday, September 26, 2-6 PM Roller's Flying Fish 8142 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19118 Free admission; cash bar Meet the artist who created the Frank Zappa albums covers! New work, paintings and prints, as well as album cover originals and memorabilia in ...
Noise Storm
"Unless played very quietly, analytical thought is thwarted while Merzbow noise occurs, and even at quiet volume, there is still a jaggedness in the cutting, the bursts of sound, the alterations, that hinders the development of analysis," writes Paul Hegarty in his chapter on Merzbow from Noise/Music: A History. In 1923, Dadaist Kurt Schwitter commenced his ...
