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World-Renowned SMOKE Jazz Club Announces Fall Concert Schedule: September-November
One of New York City’s premier live music venues, Smoke Jazz Club, presents a stellar line-up of both legendary jazz performers and emerging voices for the fall season. Acclaimed for its essential music programming and inspired setting, Smoke Jazz Club recently reopened to much fanfare after being closed to indoor performances and dining for over two ...
Larry Goldings/Peter Bernstein/Bill Stewart: Perpetual Pendulum
by Doug Collette
Keyboardist Larry Goldings, guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Bill Stewart have some history. It extends back to performing in clubs in the late Eighties and then, via decidedly circuitous routes, recording together as a threesome in the Nineties. It's a confluence of circumstance and talent that would continue through the three's appearances on a pair of ...
Mary Stallings: Songs Were Made to Sing
Mary Stallings is one of the finest living jazz singers. Her voice is deep, hip and swinging. Most of all, she has soul—lots of knowledge and experience built into her phrasing. Born in San Francisco in 1939, Stallings developed her singing chops in church before branching out to the citys' many clubs as a teen. These ...
City of Sounds
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: New York Attitude; The Surrey with the Fringe on Top; Ojos Cariñosos; Bud-Like; Moonlight in Vermont; City of Sounds; No Fills; Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise.
Mabern Plays Coltrane
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Dahomey Dance; Blue Train; Impressions; Dear Lord; My Favorite Things; Naima; Straight Street.
The Magic of Now
By Orrin Evans
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Mynah; The Eleventh Hour; Libra; The Poor Fisherman; MAT-Matt; Levels; Momma Loves; Dave.
Kinds of Love
By Renee Rosnes
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Silk; Kinds of Love; In Time Like Air; The Golden Triangle; Evermore; Passing Jupiter; Life Does Not
Wait (A Vida Não Espera); Swoop; Blessings in a Year of Exile.
Renee Rosnes: Kinds of Love
by C. Andrew Hovan
When Canadian pianist Renee Rosnes decided to make her mark in the jazz world, she wasted no time, making an auspicious start as a member of Joe Henderson's all-female quartet in 1986. Fast forward thirty-five years and her career continues to advance on an upward trajectory. Her third offering for Smoke Sessions, Kinds of Love, is ...
Orrin Evans: The Magic of Now
by C. Andrew Hovan
The pandemic brought with it a shift in sensibilities for many musicians as they navigated new and unfamiliar waters. There were pros and cons of all this activity, with many streaming events and weighty recording projects taking place. Few of the albums coming from that period speak with such authority and freshness as the set at ...
Harold Mabern: Mabern Plays Coltrane
by Mike Jurkovic
As is too often the case, we gain more and more respect and insight into an artist after he or she has passed away. Harold Mabern may have been overshadowed by many of his peers but he remained true to himself: bringing to the music a Memphis-bred hard bop blues and flourishing as both sought after ...
