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Alex Garnett: Serpent
by Bruce Lindsay
The Alex Garnett who peers out of the cover of Serpent looks a little aggressive and wil0- eyed, with odd vertical slits where his pupils should be--a serpent indeed. The Garnett on the inside is more benign, but with a contemporary hipness. In the excellent black and white back cover photo, the besuited saxophonist is cool ...
Noah Haidu: Slipstream
by Bruce Lindsay
Slipstream is the debut from New York-based pianist/writer Noah Haidu. Featuring an exceptionally talented quintet of musicians, it's a striking first album, full of superb, straight-ahead jazz. Haidu's compositions--he wrote all but one of the tunes--are strong on melody and characterized by a gentle and soulful swing. As a pianist, Haidu sounds equally ...
Live at the Hollywood Theater 2011 Season Announced
Concert Series Designed to Showcase Talent Live at the Hollywood Theater will open its 2011 Season on March 19, 2011 with a double bill concert featuring the two ensembles led by Chris Burnett and Matt Otto. Both, Kansas City based saxophone artists and composers will present a 45 minute set of combining original works and select ...
Take Five With Katsuko Tanaka
by AAJ Staff
Meet Katsuko Tanaka: Katsuko Tanaka, born and raised in Osaka Japan, resided in California as a Rotary International Foundation Ambassador in the nineties. Being inspired by the live jazz music during her stay in the U.S., she decided to immerse herself into the jazz world. After being back in Japan (Tokyo and Osaka) for ten years, ...
Duo Piano: Two For the Ages
by Ken Dryden
Bill Charlap & Renee RosnesDouble PortraitBlue Note2010 Eric Reed & Cyrus ChestnutPlenty Swing, Plenty SoulSavant2010 The debate continues as to whether having two pianos is merely a novelty or something that ...
Open Secrets: A Triumvirate of Israeli Guitarists
by Tom Greenland
Gilad Hekselman Words Unspoken LateSet Records 2009 Oren Neiman Frolic & Detour Noyman Music 2009 Yotam Silberstein Next Page Posi-Tone 2009 ...
Cellar Live: Cory Weeds & Ross Taggart
by Graham L. Flanagan
For Canadians, it sure is a good time to be a jazz fan. Much of the reason can be attributed to Cory Weeds; he owns a popular Vancouver venue called the Jazz Cellar, runs record label Cellar Live and—on his “down time"—plays the tenor sax in his own ensemble.On Everything's Coming Up Weeds, the ...
Yotam Silberstein: Next Page
by Jerry D'Souza
Yotam Silberstein began playing guitar when he was 10. His first interests were rock and pop, but five years later he began studying jazz. After he finished high school in Tel Aviv, Silberstein moved to New York City. He continued pursuing jazz and, over the years, has played with Kenny Barron, Avishai Cohen, Roy Hargrove and ...
Dmitry Baevsky at Smalls Jazz Club Tonight
Dmitry Baevsky 4tet will be at Smalls tonight Dmitry Baevsky - Alto Sax Jeb Patton - Piano Clovis Nicolas - Bass Joe Strasser - Drums 12:00 & 1:30 AM 183 West 10th street @ 7th Ave New York City About Dmitry Baevsky Dmitry Baevsky ...
