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Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble "Bebop" Concert at Woodmere Art Museum

by Victor L. Schermer
April 10, 2019

Bebop: The Music of Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble Woodmere Art Museum Philadelphia, PA April 5, 2019 The Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble occupies an almost legendary status in the Philadelphia jazz scene, and their ongoing jazz series at the Woodmere Art Museum in the outer ...

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Salvant, Skonberg, Aldana And More At Kimmel Center

by Victor L. Schermer
March 30, 2019

Cecile McLorin Salvant, Bria Skonberg, Melissa Aldana, Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura and Jamison Ross Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Monterey Jazz Festival On TourPhiladelphia, PA March 23, 2019 While some jazz festivals sponsor tours that highlight their more seasoned icons, Monterey was different in ...

Article: Profile

Unforgettable: Nat King Cole at 100

by Peter Coclanis
March 17, 2019

Few cities in the U.S. have musical traditions so strong and varied as Chicago's. Although cases can be made for other cities--New Orleans, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Memphis come to mind--in no other city is the range and depth of musical expression so strong as in Chi-Town. Other cities may dominate certain genres ...

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Spotlight On Jazz & Poetry Presents "Muses In Motion" at the Clarion Hotel & Conference Center on Saturday, April 6, 2019, 5pm

March 6, 2019

The Nine Muses of Greek Mythology were deities that gave poets, musicians, philosophers and other individuals the necessary inspiration for creation. Motion, refers to a movement, a change of position in space and time. SOJP’s Spring event for 2019 “Muses In Motion,” will be just that, musical and poetic expression, presented by a unique group of ...

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Byron Stripling and the Philly Pops at the Kimmel Center

by Victor L. Schermer
March 5, 2019

Byron Stripling and the Philly Pops “Uptown Nights" The Kimmel Center for Performing Arts Philadelphia, PA March 1, 2019 The Philly Pops' “Uptown Nights," as the title implies, revealed itself to be a festive show that featured the music of the 1920s through the 1940s when ...

Article: Live From Philadelphia

Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Sirius Juju and Unspeakable Garbage at Jerry's on Front

by Geno Thackara
February 21, 2019

Mostly Other People Do the Killing/Sirius Juju/Unspeakable GarbageJerry's on FrontPhiladelphia, PAFebruary 16, 2019 Twenty blocks and a world away from the clubs and bars of Philadelphia's city center, the experimental art space of Jerry's on Front is a room one would hardly imagine for music at all. It's a nondescript one-car-garage-sized ...

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The Philly Pops Big Band with Terell Stafford and Guests at the Kimmel Center

by Victor L. Schermer
January 24, 2019

The Philly Pops Big Band featuring Terell Stafford The Kimmel Center for Performing Arts Philadelphia, PA January 19, 2019 The Philly Pops wide-berthed orchestra includes some of the finest working jazz musicians in the city. The Pops' lead trumpet chair, Matt Gallagher, periodically assembles them as the “Philly ...

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Odean Pope Quartet at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

by Victor L. Schermer
January 15, 2019

Odean Pope Quartet “Friday Nights" Music Series Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA January 11, 2019 The great tenor saxophonist Odean Pope came up in Philadelphia and still calls it home. He obtained his sea legs together with pianist Ray Bryant, John Coltrane and other young ...

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Tim Motzer: Late-Night Soundscapes

by Geno Thackara
December 26, 2018

Natural evolution is always gradual yet relentless. Philadelphia sound-sculptor Tim Motzer demonstrates the fact with two more extended improvisations to follow on from the electro-ambient Unseen Universe (1k, 2017). All three are solo recordings made in similar circumstances (played live for wee-hours radio broadcasts roughly a year apart), yet of course no two nights or events ...

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Mary Ellen Desmond: Comfort and Joy at St. Luke's Church

by Victor L. Schermer
December 21, 2018

Mary Ellen Desmond Comfort and Joy Church of St.Luke and the Epiphany Philadelphia, PA December 16, 2018 Mary Ellen Desmond is one of the most treasured Philadelphia-based vocalists, and for the last fifteen years she has provided the inspiration for and fronted the same top of ...