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Article: Live Review

Scott Feiner At Smoke Jazz Club

Read "Scott Feiner At Smoke Jazz Club" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes

Scott Feiner & Pandeiro Jazz Smoke Jazz Club New York, New York November 4, 2009 Quite a few fans and critics seem to have a misconception of Scott Feiner's Pandeiro Jazz project. Because he lives in Rio de Janeiro, plays the pandeiro and often includes compositions ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Min Rager

Read "Take Five With Min Rager" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Min Rager: At the Montreal International Jazz Festival during that same year, her Quintet was nominated for the Grand prix de jazz General Motors. Also that year, Min's Trio (featuring Andre White on drums and Alec Walkington on bass) performed at Montreal's L'OFF Festival de Jazz where she was the recipient of the Best New ...

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Take Five With Ivan Farmakovsky

Read "Take Five With Ivan Farmakovsky" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Ivan Farmakovsky: My name is Ivan... Farmakovsky Ivan. I was fortunate to become part of a creative family: my father was a pianist and a choir conductor, my mom is an actress. I inherited the right passion, and at the age of 5 I was sent to special children's music school under the studio of ...

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News: Festival

10th Version of the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival

10th Version of the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival

By Fernando Rodriguez The news of a new version of a Jazz Festival in the Dominican Republic is reason to celebrate and be joyful, even more so when it is of a festival that has earned the respect and admiration of musicians and jazz lovers all over the country and recognition around the jazz world. This ...

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Article: Album Review

Dafnis Prieto Si o Si Quartet: Live At Jazz Standard NYC

Read "Live At Jazz Standard NYC" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

This date is drummer Dafnis Prieto's fourth as leader and second on his own label, Dafnison Music. Following the 2008 studio date Taking The Soul For A Walk, Prieto reenlisted saxophonist Peter Apfelbaum (Hieroglyphics Ensemble, Steven Bernstein's Millennial Orchestra, Kamikaze Ground Crew) and pianist Manuel Valera (John Patitucci, Paquito D'Rivera, Seamus Blake) for this live session ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Geggie Series Presents Padovani, Trudel and Mazza

Jazz Geggie Series Presents Padovani, Trudel and Mazza

The National Arts Centre is pleased to announce the Fourth Stage 10th season with the return of the critically acclaimed Geggie Series. The first concert of the season will be presented in collaboration with the Embassy of France and the Alliance Franaise on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 8pm. The concert will have a transatlantic flavour ...

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Article: Album Review

Greg Diamond: Dancando Com Ale

Read "Dancando Com Ale" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

The intended program that an artist brings to a recording date is usually a good measure of his or her maturity and confidence. For instance, to begin a record with a song that is complex, harmonically and rhythmically bodes well for what is to follow. Guitarist Greg Diamond thought it fitting to begin Dancando Com Ale ...

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Article: Album Review

Tom Beckham: Rebound

Read "Rebound" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins

In the simplest terms, to rebound is to bounce back. Many people associate it with a statistic in basketball, or the recovery from heartbreak. Musically, it describes what happens when a mallet strikes a vibraphone, or the bouncing off of ideas during improvisation. Tom Beckham does both with Rebound. Beckham is a Maryland native ...

Article: Album Review

Seamus Blake Quartet: Live In Italy

Read "Live In Italy" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Ecco un'altro bell'esempio di lungimiranza produttiva che viene da Palermo e dovrebbe far riflettere sulle tante eccellenze che operano nel nostro Sud. Il piccolo tour italiano di Seamus Blake del febbraio 2007 sarebbe passato inosservato se i nastri di quei concerti non avessere trovato la piccola etichetta palermitana Music Eyes che fa capo ai produttori Toni ...

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Article: Album Review

Seamus Blake: Live in Italy

Read "Live in Italy" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes

Seamus Blake displays impressive talent as a tenor saxophonist, composer and leader on Live in Italy, a double CD documenting his quartet's tour through various cities in 2007, where audiences were treated to an eclectic blend of dynamic originals and standards. Originals like “The Jupiter Line," “Way Out of Willy" and “Fear of ...


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