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ICP Orchestra Plus Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley at FringeArts
by Victor L. Schermer
ICP Orchestra FringeArts Ars Nova Workshops Philadelphia, PA January 11, 2015 Despite a cold and damp Sunday night in January, a packed house came to hear a stellar group of musicians from the Netherlands for a performance at the FringeArts Center in the Old City section of town. This ...
Pryor Experiences
by Skip Heller
If it seems like everything is being anthologized into a box set these days, that's because it is. While on a trip to Amoeba Music (the enormous record store from where I live about a block), I took stock of all kinds of box sets. There was even one of the Mitch Miller Sing Along With ...
Dick Hyman: The Beat Goes On
by Chris M. Slawecki
Composer, arranger, bandleader, pianist, soloist and accompanist Dick Hyman has already lived several jazz lifetimes, and as he contemplates his 86th birthday in March 2013, his career shows no sign of slowing down.A New York City native, Hyman served as pianist with a Dixieland band and with Lester Young at the December 1949 opening ...
Jimmy Herring: Subject to Change without Notice
by Ian Patterson
It's been four years since Lifeboat (Abstract Logix, 2008), guitarist Jimmy Herring's outstanding debut as leader. Herring hasn't been idle though, recording and touring with Widespread Panic. And given that it took several decades to make the first CD, four years isn't so long to wait for another-especially one this good. The emphasis is emphatically on ...
Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams For Beginners
by Skip Heller
Fifty years after his death, Ernie Kovacs is de rigueur. Mainstream, even. His angular, imaginative approach to humor was impossible to imitate, but his influence on television-specifically television comedy-is intractable. He's the Thelonious Monk of the small screen. And just trying to play in a Monkish style always points out that Monk is Monk and nobody ...
Dida Pelled Trio: Aquebogue, NY, February 12, 2012
by Dan Bilawsky
Dida Pelled TrioLong Island WinterfestPalmer VineyardsAquebogue, NYFebruary 12, 2012Long Island's East End is world renowned for it's wine country and high-end lifestyle, but few visitors ever choose to experience either one during the winter. While the wine cognoscenti have come throughout the year, the general public usually waited for ...
Jazz & Blues Florida December 2011 Online Edition Posted
The new edition of Jazz & Blues Florida, Florida's free online source for information on live jazz and blues in clubs, concerts and festivals, is now available. The November 2011 online edition of JAZZ & BLUES FLORIDA has been posted at JazzBluesFlorida.com. This month's edition can be read in .pdf format, as well as in a ...
Take Five With Tommy Vig
by AAJ Staff
Meet Tommy Vig: Born to a musical family in Budapest, Tommy Vig was internationally recognized as a child prodigy by the age of six, playing drums with his father, clarinetist Gyorgy Vig. His sense of improvisation, rhythm and energy at that young age made him unique, and he performed live concerts on radio, at ...
Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band at Royce Hall on December 29th
Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band will perform at Royce Hall on December 29 for one unforgettable night. Tickets go on sale Saturday, October 15 at 10:00 AM. For more than thirty-five years, Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band have been delighting audiences with a hot mix of New Orleans inspired music. ...
Cecil Taylor at the Take 3, 1962-'63
by Robert Levin
[Editor's Note: Excerpted and adapted from a work-in-progress, Going Outside: A Memoir of Free Jazz & the '60s] In the summer of 1962, Cecil lands a three-month, four-night-a-week gig at The Take 3, a coffee house on Bleecker Street. It's right next door to The Bitter End where Woody Allen had performed just ...
