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Article: Live From New York

Live From New York: Four Dimensions, Maqueque & Asaf Yuria

by Martin Longley
April 2, 2018

Four Dimensions: Jin Hi Kim/Elliott Sharp/William Parker/Hamid Drake Roulette March 13, 2018 Four Dimensions is a quartet that brings together a partly unlikely grouping, with bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake having the most visibly long-standing partnership. Guitarist Elliott Sharp usually inhabits a different, though musically compatible, zone, whilst ...

News: Festival

Iconic Composer And Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith Presents 2nd Annual CREATE Festival April 7-8 In New Haven, CT

April 1, 2018

“A trumpeter and composer of penetrating insight.” —Nate Chinen, The New York Times Legendary composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith presents the Second Annual CREATE Festival in New Haven, CT, a two-day celebration and exploration of his inventive and unclassifiable music that will feature world or US premiere performances of four new suites. Taking place Saturday, ...

Article: Live Review

John Abercrombie Tribute Concert at Roulette

by Tyran Grillo
March 30, 2018

John Abercrombie: Timeless--A Tribute To His Life And Music Roulette Brooklyn, NY March 26, 2018 When John Abercrombie turned off the amplifier of life in 2017, the world lost not only one of its most distinctive guitarists but also one of jazz's brightest souls. As made clear by those ...

News: Event

The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra In Great Barrington Massachusetts on April 15

March 30, 2018

The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra (“SKLO”) will make its first and only Berkshires appearance this year on Sunday, April 15, at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The 7pm concert will be a big band double-header, with the Monument Mountain Jazz Band opening for the Kenton Legacy band. Kenton was one of the ...

Article: Live Review

Bobby Zankel Wonderful Sound 4 at Da Vinci Art Alliance

by Victor L. Schermer
March 29, 2018

Bobby Zankel's Wonderful Sound 4 Featuring Sumi Tonooka (Additional Performances by Vocalist Bonnie Lander and Sirius JuJu Quintet) Fire Museum Presents @ DVAA Da Vinci Art Alliance Philadelphia, PA March 24. 2018 This show afforded a rare opportunity in an intimate setting to ...

Article: Live Review

Bob Brookmeyer Celebration at New England Conservatory

by S.G Provizer
March 28, 2018

NEC Jazz Orchestra Jordan Hall Bob Brookmeyer Celebration Boston, MA March 1, 2018 All of the composer-arrangers featured at the Bob Brookmeyer Celebration concert had been mentored, to some degree or other, by Bob Brookmeyer. Listening to what each of his former students said during the program and ...

News: Event

In Touch Entertainment Presents a New Jazz Series at New York City's Iconic Music Venue Zinc Bar in April

March 28, 2018

April is Jazz Appreciation Month and In Touch Entertainment is adding three new programs—Vocal Mania, Boss Tenors, and Dangerous Rhythms—to its already successful series of performances held at a legendary New York jazz venue, Zinc. Since its inception in 2017, Strings Attached jazz series, featuring four of New York City’s premier six-string jazz masters on a ...

News: Recording

Drummer/Composer Reggie Quinerly Reveals A New Aspect Of His Musicianship With The April 20 Release Of "Words To Love"

March 27, 2018

Hailed by DownBeat as the embodiment of “style, substance, soul, and swagger,” Reggie Quinerly is just the kind of drummer to take on a first-time challenge—like writing an album’s worth of songs featuring vocalists. “As a drummer, I’m always trying to write things you wouldn’t expect,” says Quinerly. On Words to Love, his third album as ...

Article: Opinion

Jazz and Assault Rifles: A Peace Barrage

by Victor L. Schermer
March 26, 2018

I just participated in the March 24 “March for Our Lives" event in Philadelphia, one among many cities where the Parkland, Florida Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shootout led to a large turnout of people advocating for an end to school violence and greater gun control, including, for many, the banning of assault rifles. You may ...

Article: Live Review

Larkin Poe at Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Festival, 2018

by C. Michael Bailey
March 25, 2018

Larkin Poe SQZBX STAGE @ LOW KEY ARTS Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Festival Hot Springs, Arkansas March 20, 2018 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' offence To ...