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News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 21-27

June 22, 2013

It seems May's cool weather brought June's showers, but with the Solstice comes the hot vibes of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, opening Thursday in St. Paul at Mears Park. And there's plenty of steam leading up to the festival. Big Gigs This Week Friday, June 21. Welcome summer with the soft breeze that always surrounds ...

News: Event

Arts For Art / Vision Presents Music Is Mine At Campos Plaza Outdoors And Free

June 21, 2013

A Musical Celebration, Acknowledging The Children of Campos Plaza. Due to Sequester Cuts, federally funded NYCHA Children, Senior & Health Centers are threatened with closing.Our event is not only a celebration for the children, it is to bring attention to the importance of these programs. Music is Mine will be performing original music under the direction ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Greek Rhapsody: Instrumental Music From Greece 1905-1956

by Skip Heller
June 21, 2013

A couple years back, Tompkins Square issued an unforgettable box set called To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929, which collected a type of Eastern music that had gone unanthologized, largely because it came from places long since gone from the world map, played on instruments to which most Westerners have never ...

News: Award / Grant

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces $6.5 Million to Support 65 Artists and Organizations

June 21, 2013

Philadelphia, PA: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has awarded over $6.5 million in support of Philadelphia's dynamic cultural community. This year’s grants will support 52 upcoming projects by local cultural organizations. Recipients range in size and stature from small collectives to established institutions, from creative newcomers to community strongholds. Their projects will bring major ...

News: Recording

Boston Jazz Vocalist Agachiko Debuts On CD July 9 With "Yes!"

June 21, 2013

Agachiko has been turning heads since 2008, when the septet led by Kenyan-born, Boston-based vocalist Gabrielle Agachiko was formed. On her debut album Yes!, to be released July 9 by Accurate Records, she brings an international sensibility to the incantatory spirit of Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln. Whether gracefully delivering a pointed political message on “Words,” ...

News: Radio

Tio Family Clarinet Dynasty This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

June 20, 2013

It’s the story of The Tio Family, a New Orleans clarinet dynasty, this week on Riverwalk Jazz. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band welcomes Evan Christopher, a dynamic New Orleans-based clarinetist and student of early jazz. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from ...

Article: Live Review

Burlington Discover Jazz Festival: Burlington, VT, May 31-June 9, 2013

by Doug Collette
June 20, 2013

Burlington Discover Jazz Festival Burlington, VT May 31-June 9, 2013Swooping into Burlington off interstate 89 through a series of uninterrupted green lights seems a good metaphor for the transitional year of Burlington, Vermont's Discover Jazz Festival.It's a tribute to departed director Brian Mital, as well as incoming director Linda Little, ...

Article: Album Review

Angela Davis: The Art of The Melody

Read "The Art of The Melody" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 20, 2013

Saxophonist and All About Jazz contributor Angela Davis has made it official, releasing her debut recording, The Art of The Melody. Davis joins a growing legion of female reeds players that includes Sharel Cassity, Alisha Pattillo, Virginia Mayhew, Claire Daly, and Mercedes Figueras, who are flexing their respective chops in the ravenous particles of digital music.

Article: Live From New York

Lucian Ban, Mat Maneri, Enrico Rava, Rock Candy Funk Party & Michael Hashim

by Martin Longley
June 20, 2013

Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri The Rubin Museum Of Art June 7, 2013 This was the first in a three-part series where the Rubin's acoustic-only theatre was taken over by artists from the ECM label, all of them celebrating the release of new albums. It was an ...

Article: Album Review

Bob James & David Sanborn: Quartette Humaine

Read "Quartette Humaine" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 20, 2013

It's much easier to take Quartette Humaine at face value as an organic-and-acoustic outing between two high profile figures known for blurring the pop-jazz line than it is to take it under its marketed premise: a tribute to the famed partnership between pianist Dave Brubeck and saxophonist Paul Desmond. While pianist Bob James and saxophonist David ...