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News: Performance / Tour

Roland Vazquez Band At The Falcon - April 15 & Shapeshifter Lab - April 19!

March 22, 2013

Featuring: Luis Perdomo, Adam Kolker, Jon Owens, Tony Kadleck, Alex Norris, Alan Ferber, Ryan Keberle, Quinsin Nachoff, Cliff Almond and many other special guests! To know Roland Vazquez is to know his music, and vice versa. Like many true artists, his work is inseparable from the essence of his character. One can hear in the music ...

News: Recording

Not Your Classic - Out April 6, Is The Latest Album From Carlos Redman

March 22, 2013

Rising trumpeter star Carlos Redman is going back to his signature edgy improv style. The musician will release “Not Your Classic," a new album of refreshed standards and originals, April 6 on Redman's Brown Eyes Records. The collection was produced by multiple Grammy Award winner Alessandro Perrotta and marks the debut release for his quintet Chemistry. ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 22-28

March 22, 2013

A night of cabaret, a weekend of cutting edge jazz, and a big band world premiere all contribute to an eclectic week in the Twin Cities jazz community. And maybe spring will finally make an appearance? Big and Recommended Gigs Friday, March 22. Some of the area's top jazz vocalists are active members of the Twin ...

News: Interview

Jazz Face: Nakatani in St. Paul

March 22, 2013

Tatasuya Nakatani is a mystic of percussion. A native of Osaka based in Easton, PA, he's not only a master of the standard trapset, but a genie who summons other worlds from a formidable arsenal of intended and unintended “instruments" - gongs, cymbals, sticks, mallets, bowls, boxes, bows - pretty much anything one can hold and ...

News: Event

Time Travel Pifa Pop Up Parade Takes Over Philadelphia Today!

March 22, 2013

TIME TRAVEL POP UP PARADE To celebrate the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts and its 2013 theme of Time Travel, PIFA Characters will take over Philadelphia on Friday, March 22nd. Prepare to travel through decades in the blink of an eye... a historical Pop Up PIFA Parade will take you through time, and some of ...

News: Festival

The Naniki Caribbean Jazz Safari Blazing Through The Islands

March 22, 2013

“Caribbean Jazz Shines Brighter” Initially conceiving the idea some twenty years ago Barbados Businessman/promoter Tom Hinds saw his vision of more than 20 years become a reality last month at the debut of the first of a series of Caribbean music festivals titled The Naniki Caribbean Jazz Safari. His concept was to take a simple plan ...

News: Performance / Tour

Chihiro Yamanaka Trio At Dizzy's In San Diego, March 30

March 22, 2013

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform March 30 at Dizzy’s in San Diego, CA. The concert marks the San Diego debut by Chihiro, a Universal Music recording artist and influential jazz pianist and composer. The concert has the additional distinction of being part of Chihiro’s first multi-city west coast tour as a leader. The tour also ...

News: Radio

Barbary Coast This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

March 21, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz we hear rare recordings of Sid LeProtti playing piano and actor Vernel Bagneris bringing LeProtti’s words to life. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band plays classic tunes that might have been danced to in the night spots of Pacific Street. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on ...

Article: Album Review

Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Functional Arrhythmias

Read "Functional Arrhythmias" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
March 21, 2013

Ever the thinker, saxophonist Steve Coleman now delves into the connection between human biology and music with Functional Arrhythmias, perhaps his most accessible release in recent memory. With a vast discography that has covered everything from unadulterated funk in 1988's Sine Die (Pegasus) to advanced concepts in 2011's The Mancy of Sound (Pi), his curiosity and ...

Article: Album Review

Sex Mob: Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti (Sex Mob Plays Fellini: The Music of Nino Rota)

Read "Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti (Sex Mob Plays Fellini: The Music of Nino Rota)" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
March 21, 2013

Founded 17 years ago as a showcase for leader Steven Bernstein's unique slide trumpet, Sex Mob has since embraced a far more ambitious mission: to revive the adventurous spirit of prewar jazz. Bernstein realized early on that playing radically altered covers was the best way to lure an audience into his roguish sound world. Since then ...