Jazz
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John Shiurba JazzizMay 1999 Bay Area guitarist and free-improvisor John Shiurba hit upon the idea of his new Limited Sedition record label soon after buying a CD burner last year: "I just wanted to put out CDs of my music, and music that I think is worthy," he explains. "But the idea of shopping tapes
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Kenny Kirkland JazzizFebruary 1999 Word leaked over the Internet before any official sources were heard. But in the end, the stories were the same: Pianist Kenny Kirkland was found dead in his Queens home on Friday, November 13. He was 43. At press time, no apparent cause of death was revealed.* Kirkland came of
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Sometimes the road ahead is simply a matter of being in the right place at the right time…and knowing the right people. Back in the spring of 2000, with my illustrious public-relations career at an impasse after BMG Classics eliminated almost everyone in the department, I got an interesting offer from Larry Blumenfeld, then the
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Ken Thomson, by James Hirschfeld Ken Thomson and I first crossed paths back in 1997, when I was the publicist for the Knitting Factory and its first-annual [sic] Texaco Jazz Festival (formerly What Is Jazz?), and he was part of an intrepid team broadcasting multiple events for Columbia University's invaluable radio station, WKCR-FM. Since then,
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Gilberto Gil, by Marco Hermes; Osvaldo Golijov, by Tanit Sakakini; Gustavo Dudamel, by Chris Christodoulou "Calling Out the Neighboring Virtuosos: Voices of Latin America at Carnegie Hall"The New York Times, Nov. 5, 2012 Pretty happy with the way this one turned out…I feel like I'm getting better at creating an equilibrium in covering events that
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TILT Brass with Nate Wooley at University Settlement, September 21, 2012The New York Times, Sept. 26, 2012 Scroll down past reviews of Kimiko Ishizaka and the Talea Ensemble for a succinct snapshot of a rich collaboration between New York agit-prop new-music ensemble TILT Brass and trumpeter Nate Wooley, who presented the fourth and latest installment
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Ethan Iverson and Ben Street, from the best seat in the house School is in session at the venerable Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village this week, as pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Ben Street and drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath merrily romp and ruminate their collective way through a master class in unhackneyed jazz repertoire. By now,
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To mark the 70th birthday of the brilliant drummer, bandleader and composer Jack DeJohnette, a quick post featuring two somewhat offbeat videos, since you've probably seen a lot of Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett footage elsewhere. First, my favorite of DeJohnette's original compositions, "Silver Hollow" (not "Hallow," as the clip is labeled), recorded in 1978
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Steven Schick playing "North Star Boogaloo." Photograph: Erin Baiano/The New York Times International Contemporary Ensemble: George Lewis Composer Portrait at Miller TheatreThe New York Times, November 14, 2011 Happy as I am with most of this review, I'm still kind of amazed that I managed to write an entire piece on George Lewis without once
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Tri-Centric Modelling: Past, Present and Future(Le) Poisson Rouge/Issue Project RoomNew York City, USAThe Wire, September 2010 There was surely one burning question on the minds of the audience who packed the chic New York City nightclub (Le) Poisson Rouge to capacity on a Friday night for the first evening of Tri-Centric Modelling: Past, Present and
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"Billy Bang, Jazz Violinist Inspired by Vietnam Experience, Dies at 63"The New York Times, April 17, 2011 Probably no more than a year after I moved to New York in 1993, my head full of dazzling notions about downtown-jazz royalty developed during previous years of listening and learning from afar in Texas, I was out
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WQXR "Trout Week": Ebène Quartet at the Greene SpaceThe New York Times, April 7, 2011 Between musical selections midway through this show, host Bill McGlaughlin asked the members of the Ebène Quartet how many concerts they present in a typical year. Around 120 was the response. After a few more tunes – "Misirlou," "Libertango," the
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"Joe Morello, Drummer with Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dies at 82"The New York Times, March 13, 2011 My first published Times obituary: not a task one wants to take up, but an assignment I'm glad to have landed. Partly it's because both as a percussionist in training and as a budding jazz fan I grew up
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All over my apartment, in boxes and in piles, are loose clippings and magazines with articles I've written that, for one reason or another, don't exist on the web. For some time now I've been toying with the idea of posting at least some of those pieces here, partly because it's a way of archiving
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Portrait of the author hard at work during Inuksuit. Photograph by Bonnie Wright. Tomorrow (March 1) from 3 to 5pm, I'll slip off the manacles binding me to my desk at the Time Out New York compound and head across town to St. Peter's Church (619 Lexington Ave. at 54th St.), where I'll be participating
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The New York Philharmonic with Branford Marsalis at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, February 19, 2011 I rarely receive feedback on my reviews from strangers, directly, but every time I do, I learn something valuable. After this review appeared in print this morning, I got an e-mail from someone who attended the matinee performance
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A week and a bit after I went to hear Paul Motian and Bill Frisell play at the Village Vanguard with saxophonists Tony Malaby and Mark Turner (reported here), I returned for the last night of the next week's run (Sunday, Sept. 5), during which saxophonist Joe Lovano returned to his place at the center
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