Home » Search Center » Results: United States

Results for "United States"

News: Performance / Tour

Dee Dee Bridgewater - June 9 - National Jazz Museum In Harlem Benefit Concert

March 12, 2014

National Jazz Museum in Harlem Benefit Concert - June 9 Featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jonathan Batiste & Special Surprise Guests Concert at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College The National Jazz Museum in Harlem invites you to the June 9th, 2014 Gala Benefit Concert & Awards Ceremony held at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College. The ...

News: Performance / Tour

Dimensional States: The Microtonal Music Of Sten Hostfalt At Shapeshifter Lab

March 12, 2014

March 13 2014, sets at 8.30pm + 9.30pm ShapeShifter Lab 18 Whitwell Place Brooklyn NY 11215 TRIO ( 8.30 pm ) Sten Hostfalt guitar, Shayna Dulberger bass, Dave Miller drums ORCHESTRA ( 9.30 pm ) Liliana Santon voice Constance Cooper voice Robyn Siwula viola ...

News: Recording

Italian Trio Chat Noir Stretches Out On Daring RareNoise Release Elec3Cities

March 12, 2014

By organically blending elements of electronica and ambient music with bits of chamber music and jazz, the innovative trio of pianist Michele Cavallari, bassist Luca Fogagnolo and drummer Guiliano Ferrari has come up with a wholly unique sound on Elec3Cities that may establish a daring new direction for the piano trio. This delicate balance of electronic ...

News: Recording

Jamie Saft And Joe Morris Join Forces Once Again For Sonic Mayhem On RareNoise Release Plymouth

March 12, 2014

Following on the heels of their successful collaboration on 2013‘s Slobber Pup, one of the most intensely throbbing releases in the RareNoise catalog, keyboardist Jamie Saft and guitarist Joe Morris have reunited for another potent and provocative offering in Plymouth. Joining them on the three expansive pieces that comprise this purely improvised set are the indelible ...

News: Obituary

Vocalist/Pianist Patty Wicks: 1945-2014

March 11, 2014

Vocalist and pianist Patti Wicks, who divided her jazz life between New York and Florida for the past 40 years, recording several well-considered albums since the turn of the new century, died from heart failure March 7 in West Palm Beach, Fla. She was 69-years old. Wicks belonged to that rarefied group of performers that include ...

News: Event

Thomas Chapin Film Project Adds Second Round Of Filming

March 11, 2014

NEW YORK CITY — EMMY-winning filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo reports that it has now been two years of steady progress since she conceived the film THOMAS CHAPIN, NIGHT BIRD SONG in 2012. She is now preparing for the 2nd round of shoots this April. The first round was completed in July 2013 with 20 interviews in ...

Article: Live Review

Pat Metheny Unity Group at the Paramount Theater, Denver, March 7, 2014

by Geoff Anderson
March 11, 2014

Pat Metheny Unity Group Paramount Theater Denver, CO March 7, 2014 The Group is back. Sort of. For virtually his entire career, Pat Metheny has bounced back and forth between the highly successful Pat Metheny Group and a wide array of projects under his own name. Ever since the Group's eponymous ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Swiss Jazz Orchestra: Sincerely Yours

by Jack Bowers
March 11, 2014

The world-class Swiss Jazz Orchestra produced the 2-CD set Sincerely Yours to mark its tenth anniversary in 2013. As is the SJO's custom, the nineteen tracks were taped during a series of stellar concert performances spanning those years, showcasing the orchestra's excellence as a unit and its roster of impressive soloists performing compositions and arrangements by ...

Article: Album Review

Club d'Elf: Fire in the Brain Live at Berklee

Read "Fire in the Brain Live at Berklee" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 11, 2014

"To thine own self be true" is a reliable expression, and few band biographies are more true to their subject than the official label writeup on the marvelously twisted Club d'Elf: “Circling about bassist/composer Mike Rivard (Morphine, Either-Orchestra, Guster, Boston Pops), D'Elf is a constellation of top musicians from the jazz, DJ, rock and world music ...

Article: Album Review

Ithamara Koorax: Opus Classico

Read "Opus Classico" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 11, 2014

Throughout her career, Ithamara Koorax has consistently exercised a singing voice that approaches the eternal; Ira Gitler once famously described Koorax's singing as “celestial elegance." On Opus Clássico, that amazing voice finds material to match: Vocal and vocalized melodies written by such master composers as Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, Sergie Rachmaninoff and Heitor Villa-Lobos, lovingly and ...