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Roy Ayers at The Addition
By Walter Atkins The Addition, formally known as Yoshi's San Francisco, welcomed the celebrated and ageless acid jazz/funk vibraphonist Roy Ayers for a weekend stand on November 21, 2014. The new name was inspired by the club's location between Lower Fillmore and the Western Addition. The show kicked off the soft opening of the City's latest ...
Tim Warfield’s All-Star Jazzy Christmas at Tempe Center for the Arts
by Patricia Myers
Tim Warfield's All-Star Jazzy Christmas Tempe Center for the Arts Tempe, Arizona December 20, 2014 A top-level East Coast jazz sextet performed a concert that reinvented holiday-season favorites with jazzy improvisations as part of the monthly Lakeshore Music series. Saxophonist Tim Warfield led a strong contingent that featured trumpeter Terell Stafford, ...
Gov't Mule Featuring John Scofield: Sco-Mule
by John Kelman
Since the news came out that Gov't Mule was finally releasing Sco-Mule, a collaboration with broad-minded jazz guitarist John Scofield, there's been plenty of speculation and anticipation. The power trio began as a part-time side project for then-Allman Brothers Band guitarist/singer Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody but, along with drummer Matt Abts, was so well-received ...
Wayne Krantz: Good Piranha Bad Piranha
by Ian Patterson
If Wayne Krantz seemed to be embracing vocals on Krantz Carlock Lefebvre (Abstract Logix, 2009), where he sang on a third of the tracks, then the transition seemed complete on Howie 61 (Abstract Logix, 2012), where he sang on eight of the ten tracks, with the guitar--at least as an improvisational tool--taking a back seat to ...
Les McCann "Invitation To Openness" Reissued on Omnivore Recordings
Through the chart-topping 1969 song Compared To What, Les McCann became known to thousands of people as an inspirational soul-jazz" pianist and vocalist. Since its first release in 1972, Les McCann's Invitation To Openness album (Atlantic Records) has remained a landmark statement in free-form improvisation mixed with soulful grooves, featuring a 26-minute continuous track with ...
Live From New York: The State of Jazz in 2015
Dispatches from the 11th annual Winter Jazzfest, where more than 100 groups performed over three days Hindin: The rightful home of the country’s premier jazz festival is New York City—more than tony Newport or even New Orleans, whose “Jazz & Heritage Festival” is nursing an identity crisis (this year’s headliner: Elton John)—and Winter Jazzfest is it. ...
Pharaoh Sanders at SFJAZZ
by Harry S. Pariser
Pharoah Sanders SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA January 9, 2014 Pharoah Sanders is hardly a stranger to San Francisco. Residing just across the Bay Bridge in Oakland, the 74-year-old saxophonist has performed in the city on numerous occasions, including a solo gig at Grace Cathedral for SFJAZZ some years back. For this ...
New England Conservatory Jazz Voice Alum Michael Mayo Featured On American Voices A PBS Great Performances Special Hosted By Renée Fleming
“Jazz on stage is alive and it’s a very intimate exchange… You have to listen so you can respond and keep the conversation going. You do that so impeccably well!” – Dianne Reeves to Michael Mayo on PBS’ American Voices New England Conservatory Jazz Studies alum Michael Mayo (Bachelor’s of Music, Jazz Voice ’14) was recently ...
Matt Haviland, Andy Farber, Steve Berger, Mark Hagan, Andrew Swift at The Old 76 House
by David A. Orthmann
Matt Haviland, Andy Farber, Steve Berger, Mark Hagan, Andrew Swift The Old 76 House Mark Hagan's Jazz Salon Tappan, NY January 14, 2015 The personalities of trombonist Matt Haviland and tenor/alto saxophonist Andy Farber emerged, prominently and in glorious detail, during the opening set of Mark Hagan's Jazz Salon. ...
Eric Warren: ExpressionandReflection
by Nicholas F. Mondello
As you might think, there are rare recordings possibly better experienced sans lights--and ExpressionandReflection certainly might be one of them. That's definitely not to say that hearing this excellent offering loses anything in broad daylight. Far from it; while it's not a concept outing as its title might imply, ExpressionandReflection dishes up a contemplative quality that ...

