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News: Recording

Steven Schoenberg Performs Live at Harlem in the Himalayas Music Series

Steven Schoenberg Performs Live at Harlem in the Himalayas Music Series

Friday, May 7th, 2010 7:00p to 8:30pat Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NYPrice: $18.00 in advance / $20.00 day of Member $16.20Phone: (212) 620-5000 $18.00 in advance / $20.00 day ofMember Price: $16.20 This marks Steven Schoenberg's first New York concert since the release of Steven Schoenberg Live: An Improvisational Journey. He is a ...

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Article: Album Review

Tim Hagans: The Avatar Sessions: The Music of Tim Hagans

Read "The Avatar Sessions: The Music of Tim Hagans" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Over the past three-and-a-half decades, trumpeter Tim Hagans has worked with the most accomplished big bands in the world. Time spent with Stan Kenton, Thad Jones, Maria Schneider and Bob Mintzer has often placed him at the epicenter of large group creativity. These associations, along with many others, have helped him flesh out his own unique ...

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Article: Album Review

Earl MacDonald: Re: Visions

Read "Re: Visions" reviewed by Edward Blanco


There are far too few big band albums being recorded these days, so it is with great appreciation that the music of professor Earl MacDonald finds its way to the studio for lovers of the genre to enjoy. Harnessing the talents of a 17-piece, world-class orchestra, MacDonald--a composer/arranger/pianist and director of Jazz Studies at the University ...

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Article: Album Review

Tim Hagans: The Avatar Session: The Music of Tim Hagans

Read "The Avatar Session: The Music of Tim Hagans" reviewed by John Kelman


He's been its musical director since 1996, but since 2005 trumpeter Tim Hagans' work with the Swedish Norbotten Big Band has run in a parallel stream to his more intimate, small ensemble work on the German Pirouet label, most recently on Alone Together (2008). As good as Worth the Wait (Fuzzy Music, 2008) was, The Avatar ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill Carrothers: Joy Spring

Read "Joy Spring" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Pianist Bill Carrothers has narrowed his often expansive focus. Where the marvelous and career-defining Armistice 1918 (Sketch Records, 2004) concerned itself with the scope of World War I, and I Love Paris (Pirouet Records, 2005) explored popular songs from the twenties through the forties, Joy Spring zeros in on a smaller slice of a more recent ...

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Article: Live Review

Tomasz Stanko Quintet at Birdland, April 18, 2010

Read "Tomasz Stanko Quintet at Birdland, April 18, 2010" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes


Tomasz Stanko Quintet Birdland New York, New York April 18, 2010 The legendary Polish trumpeter took to the stage at New York's Birdland backed by his new band comprising Olavi Louhivuori (drums), Jakob Bro (guitar), Alexi Tuomarila (piano) and Anders Christensen (bass). The set, which featured ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Janisch: Purpose Built

Read "Purpose Built" reviewed by Edward Blanco


A relative newcomer on the international jazz scene, Michael Janisch is an American bassist currently living in London and making his debut recording with the very impressive Purpose Built, a potent selection of eight original composition and four familiar jazz standards. Janisch offers a diverse repertoire of melody-rich, sophisticated charts in a musical palette of essentially ...

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News: Award / Grant

Pianist/Composer Arturo O'Farrill Honored

Pianist/Composer Arturo O'Farrill Honored

Honoring Those Who Make a Positive Difference in Our World The 2010 Anthony D. Duke Founder's Medal will be presented at the Boys & Girls Harbor 18th Salute to Achievement at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel on June 14, 2010 to Marcia L. Goldstein, Esq. & GRAMMY award winner Arturo O'Farrill. Harbor Founder Anthony Duke with Harbor ...

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News: Recording

Vocalist/Composer Sarah Partridge Releases New CD Titled "Perspective" (Peartree Productions)

Vocalist/Composer Sarah Partridge Releases New CD Titled "Perspective" (Peartree Productions)

The new release from vocalist/composer Sarah Partridge is titled “Perspective." Unlike most modern day jazz vocal releases “Perspective" takes a much more particular path. Bypassing the standard quartet set up that most modern day vocalists take, Partridge takes the duo approach here with her musical cohort Daniel May. The new recording is a gathering over a ...

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Pianist Bill Carrothers Releases New CD on Pirouet Records Titled "Joy Spring"

Pianist Bill Carrothers Releases New CD on Pirouet Records Titled "Joy Spring"

BILL CARROTHERS - JOY SPRING - PIROUET RECORDS BILL CARROTHERS: piano DREW GRESS: bass BILL STEWART: drums When you listen to the title piece, it's hard to believe what you're hearing. You would never imagine it could sound like this. The piano celebrates a stoic slowness, appears to mark time. Pensive, enigmatic. ...


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