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Article: Album Review

Harold Lopez-Nussa: New Day

Read "New Day" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Havana-native pianist/composer Harold López-Nussa is not an unknown entity. He has released five recordings previous to the present New Day and all before 30 years of age. His is a an assertive Latin Jazz infused with the essence of Western Europe. His training includes the Manuel Saumell and Amadeo Roldán Conservatories, graduating with a specialty in ...

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Article: Live Review

The Ginger Baker Jazz Confusion at the Musical Instrument Museum

Read "The Ginger Baker Jazz Confusion at the Musical Instrument Museum" reviewed by Patricia Myers

by Patricia Myers

The Ginger Baker Jazz Confusion Musical Instrument Museum Phoenix, AZ October 18, 2013 The Ginger Baker Jazz Confusion was promoted as a tribute to jazz icons Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk. When just two of those artists were musically referenced and Monk was not, it likely was noticed only ...

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News: Festival

2014 Texas Jazz Jam Cruise Announced

2014 Texas Jazz Jam Cruise Announced

The Austin Jazz Alliance has announced the first ever Texas Jazz Jam Cruise. Jazz Alliance members have been working for the past 6 months on putting together the final touches on the program, activities, musicians and special guests for this first ever Jazz Jam cruise out of Texas. The cruise will sail out of Galveston, Texas, ...

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News: Event

Stephanie Jordan Performs A Liberty Bank Christmas With The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

Stephanie Jordan Performs A Liberty Bank Christmas With The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

Event also features Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra NEW ORLEANS - Liberty Bank and Trust Company announces its 2nd Annual “A Liberty Bank Christmas Concert." This year's event will again feature the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra joined by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Irvin Mayfield and Stephanie Jordan. The concert will also feature The ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 8-14

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 8-14

With the Zeitgeist New Music Cabaret featuring some favorite jazz ensembles, a double header weekend with Bryan Nichols at the Artists Quarter, Allen Toussaint at the Dakota, PipJazz Youth All-Stars at Landmark Center, and the JazzMN salute to Tito Puente— all this weekend, there's no excuse for staying home! And then there's the line-up for the ...

News: Radio

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Class Of 1930: Surviving On A Song

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band celebrates the music that kept America swinging in the Great Depression with special guest vocalists Nina Ferro and Vernel Bagneris and a special appearance by blues legend Jay McShann. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can ...

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News: Crowdfunding Campaign

Monday Night With Tony Vitti: The Class Is Back, Baby!

Monday Night With Tony Vitti: The Class Is Back, Baby!

Tony Vitti, French jazz singer now living in New York City, broadcast live on prime time in front of more than 2 million people on French TV and Michelle Kawka, New York's rising star in photography and Queens NY native, are launching a crowfunding campaign on Indie GoGo to create the first Musical Webseries based on ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Tom Lawton Joins Keyboard Mania at the Colonial Theatre on November 14th

Tom Lawton Joins Keyboard Mania at the Colonial Theatre on November 14th

On Thursday November 14, Tom Lawton will appear in a benefit concert at the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville for Keyboard Mania. All proceeds benefit the Kimberton Waldorf School Steinway Restoration Fund. Tom Lawton is a highly respected and gifted jazz pianist based in the Philadelphia area. His playing is “superbly performed, full of complex textures, exciting ...

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Article: Album Review

Ted Rosenthal Trio: Wonderland

Read "Wonderland" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Lots of “Christmas Albums" come out every year. Many of them are nice for an easy holiday listen, but let's face it, expectations are low in terms of endurance, and they can often be rightfully seen as quickly done, quick buck affairs. Then there are the ones that have endured: the Vince Guaraldi Trio's A Charlie ...

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Article: Catching Up With

The La Barbera Brothers: Jazz DNA

Read "The La Barbera Brothers: Jazz DNA" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello

It's an interesting phenomenon how certain families enter and distinguish themselves in this marvelous world of jazz--The Joneses, Heaths, Candolis, Royals, Breckers, Mangiones, and others. Over the last five decades--even many more if one goes farther back to when they were young children playing in the family band with Mom and Pop--the La Barbera Brothers--John, Joe ...


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