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News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 14-20

June 14, 2013

Finally, the weather is heating up, maybe drying out? Making the evenings perfect for getting out an enjoying live music. And the music is surely heating up as well, building up to our end-of-the-month Twin Cities Jazz Festival. Of course, any given weekend typically seems like a jazz festival around here. This weekend, KBEM brings yet ...

Article: Album Review

Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Electro Acoustic Orchestra: The Space Between

Read "The Space Between" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 13, 2013

Like a painting by Mark Rothko, whose canvasses contain rectangular fields of color and light that convey more than a visual experience, the music of Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Electro Acoustic Orchestra transcends a mere audio happening. Rothko's paintings exceeded the aesthetic confines of their canvasses into a spiritual and psychological realm. Likewise, Mazurek makes visually ...

Article: Album Review

Jeffrey Gimble: Beyond Up High

Read "Beyond Up High" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
June 13, 2013

There's a lyric in the old Kenny Rogers pop tune, “The Gambler" that states: “You've got to know when to hold and know when to fold." Now vocalist Jeffrey Gimble's debut CD Beyond Up High isn't a gamble--well, perhaps it is a bit as he enters the highly uncertain world of the male jazz singer, but, ...

Article: Live Review

Eliane Elias at Birdland

by Ernest Barteldes
June 13, 2013

Eliane EliasBirdland New York, NYMay 31, 2013 On the fourth night of her weeklong residence at Birdland, pianist Eliane Elias opened her set with an original number, its bluesy nature recalling the work of recently deceased pianist Dave Brubeck. The number gave her quartet--bassist Marc Johnson, guitarist Steve Cardenas and drummer ...

News: Education

New York Jazz Academy Summer Jazz Intensives, NYC Music Camps For Adults And Teens, Now Enrolling

June 12, 2013

MAKE THIS SUMMER YOUR HOTTEST YET NEW YORK, NY: New York City’s newest music school is offering affordable Summer Jazz Intensives to adults and teens who can make it to their exciting new space on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. New York Jazz Academy, recently featured on NBC’s Today in New York, CNBC, and CBS ...

Article: Live Review

Joshua Redman Quartet with The Knights: New York, NY, June 4, 2013

by Dan Bilawsky
June 12, 2013

Joshua Redman Quartet with The KnightsThe Town HallBlue Note Jazz FestivalNew York, NY June 4, 2013 For a couple of years, it looked like the Big Apple had lost its big jazz festival mojo. New York maintained more than its fair share of jazz gatherings in 2009 and 2010, ...

Article: Album Review

Lotte Anker/ Rodrigo Pinhero/ Hernâni Faustino: Birthmark

Read "Birthmark" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 12, 2013

After releasing a trio of stellar recordings with pianist Craig Taborn, and drummer Gerald Cleaver, the last being Floating Islands (ILK, 2009), Danish saxophonist Lotte Anker returns with a new trio. She teams up with the Portuguese players Rodrigo Pinhero (piano) and Hernâni Faustino (double bass), best known as members of RED Trio with drummer Gabriel ...

Article: Live Review

Cyrus Chestnut Trio + Stefon Harris: Tempe, AZ, May 31, 2013

by Patricia Myers
June 12, 2013

Cyrus Chestnut Trio and Stefon HarrisTempe Center for the ArtsTempe, AZMay 31, 2013Pianist Cyrus Chestnut has perfected the art of musical surprise, creating dialogues between his own hands as well as with his colleagues. He launched his Tempe, Arizona concert by stating, “We like to play the notes we've never played ...

Article: Album Review

Jeff Williams: The Listener

Read "The Listener" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 12, 2013

It may be a poor-man's explanation, but here it goes: bebop begat hard bop begat the freer post-bop. Free jazz emerged among them. What next? Jeff Williams' The Listener. The greater freedom of post bop compared to its predecessor is given more freedom, but not so much that the music descends into the ravenous particles of ...

News: Performance / Tour

St. Louis Premiere of Terence Blanchard's Opera Gets National Media Attention

June 12, 2013

Trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard's new opera Champion, which will receive its world premiere performance this Saturday, June 15 at Opera Theatre St. Louis, got some national attention today in an article in the Wall Street Journal. Jazz Times magazine recently also ran a short item about the premiere, while Opera News had a more extensive ...