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Jazz Bridge Presents Sumi Tonooka at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Media (PA) on March 16
For the last piano concert of this season, Jazz Bridge presents award-winning jazz artist Sumi Tonooka in a rare piano concert in the Philadelphia area at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 145 W. Rose Tree Road in Media, PA, on March 16, 2011. With her will be bassist Mike Boone and drummer Alan Nelson. Initiation, her most ...
2011 Playboy Jazz Line-Up Announced
By Chuck Koton There are many reasons for Americans to express their collective gratitude to Hugh Hefner. He played a fundamental role in sophisticating society's senses in the1950s. And there are the women. There is the ground breaking path Hef carved in transcending the puritanical sexual mores of the Eisenhower era. And there are the women. ...
Riverwalk Jazz Interviews Nat Hentoff
Author and columnist Nat Hentoff is one of America's most revered commentators on jazz. This week on Riverwalk Jazz, host David Holt caught up with the 85-year-old at his home in Greenwich Village to talk about the people and personalities covered in his new book, At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene. ...
Sony Holland "Sanssouci" CD Release Party at First & Hope on October 7
Sony Holland: vocals Jerry Holland: guitar Kenny Dennis: drums Thursday, October 7 @ 7:30pm 1 Show Only First & Hope 710 W 1st St Los Angeles, CA 90012 213-617-8555 Vocalist Sony Holland will perform songs from her CD Sanssouci at First & Hope in ...
Ted Piltzecker: Steppe Forward
by Bruce Lindsay
From the opening notes of “Steppe Forward" itself, Ted Piltzecker and his sextet give a clear statement of intent: Steppe Forward is going to be an upbeat, joyous and uplifting album, from beginning to end. As the closing bars of “Reunion Blues" fade away, it's clear that the band has achieved this intention, with a lively, ...
Archie Shepp: The New York Contemporary Five
by John Barron
Although saxophonist Archie Shepp is listed as the leader of this release, The New York Contemporary Five was really a collective; a short-lived, free jazz super-group from the early 1960s. The band, with a front line of Shepp, cornetist Don Cherry and alto saxophonist John Tchicai, was recorded live at the famed Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, ...
