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Luis Perdomo: Walking Towards the Light
Pianist Luis Perdomo's fingers dart across the keys, eloquently telling the stories that traverse his mind in that instant; doing so in a manner that enraptures an audience. He moves people, and does so in a manner that appears, on the surface, easy. Like great athletes. Like other great musicians. This is one of the finer pianists out there, playing music from his heart and with plentiful chops and great vision... Joe Muranyi, Clarinetist With Louis Armstrong, Dies at 84
 Mr. Muranyi was among a handful of jazz musicians who began their careers in the 1950s but looked to an earlier era for inspiration. A Swell Farewell...and Onward
On April 13, Rutgers University-Newark threw a swell party for me on the occasion of my retirement as director of the Institute of Jazz Studies. I won't go into the social and musical details here, but do want to thank all my friends who showed up, and the many others who sent regrets--notably m: Sonny Rollins, whose gratifying message was read by Dr. Clem Price, director of the Rutgers Institute of Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience... Enrico Pieranunzi Trio at Village Vanguard
 The jazz pianist Enrico Pieranunzi leads a buoyant group at the Village Vanguard through Sunday. Craig Taborn Trio at Village Vanguard
 The pianist Craig Taborn brought his fluid jazz trio for the first time to the Village Vanguard on Wednesday night. Dmitry Baevsky Quartet: New York, NY April 22, 2012
Dmitry Baevsky Quartet Smalls Jazz Club New York, NY April 22, 2012
Going out to hear live jazz is seldom as easy as finding a suitable place, plunking down some hard-earned cash, and then simply taking in the sounds. Befitting a music that once thrived in dance halls, sporting houses and other places where art for art's sake wasn't a priority, there are extra-musical distractions to be tolerated--such as food and drink being ordered, served and consumed; the tittering of mundane conversations; and long-winded, superfluous introductory remarks by MCs... Giuseppi Logan, Jazz Artist, Tries for a Comeback
 For more than 30 years after some pioneering albums, Giuseppi Logan was one of jazz’s missing persons, impaired by drugs and mental illness. Don Was Tries to Revive Blue Note Records
 After some difficult years Blue Note Records is set for a revival with ambitious new releases and a new president, the award-winning producer Don Was. Paul Simon With the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
 Paul Simon performed a fund-raiser with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, with many of the arrangements by the orchestra members. Tierney Sutton Band at Dazzle
Tierney Sutton Band Dazzle Denver May 6, 2012
Most attractive female singers with long blonde hair simply market themselves under their own name. Not so Tierney Sutton. She's not a solo act. She's part of the Tierney Sutton Band. Sure, she's the focal point onstage (a long blonde mane will do that), but the band is a true collaboration, having been together for about 20 years. Besides performing together, the band collectively creates its own arrangements of jazz standards. Sunday night at Dazzle, Sutton estimated that the group has about 150 to 170 songs in its book that have been arranged together. As a result, no two shows by the Tierney Sutton Band are the same... Greg Lake: Westbury, NY, April 22, 2012
Greg Lake: The Songs of A Lifetime NYCB Theatre at Westbury Westbury, New York April 22, 2012
m: Emerson, Lake and Palmer, King Crimson, m: Ringo Starr, Percy Sledge, m: Robert Fripp and m: The Who...what they all have in common is Greg Lake. Lake is the voice behind the original King Crimson (which he founded along with Fripp) and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. He has also recorded with The Who and has toured with Ringo and Sledge, among others... Cecil Taylor at Harlem Stage Gatehouse
 The jazz pianist Cecil Taylor played a solo concert at the Harlem Stage Gateheouse on Thursday night, part of a larger series celebrating his influence and legacy. Sonny Rollins: A Diamond in the Rough
[Sonny Rollins was finishing up an extended tour at the time of this 1978 interview. Milestone Records had brought him together with pianist m: McCoy Tyner, bassist m: Ron Carter, and drummer m: Al Foster to form a group called the Milestone Jazzstars that played 20 shows that year and recorded a live album. He talked about other tours, his work in film, and his continuing musical development.] Sonny Rollins doesn't get at all excited about being called the world's greatest tenor saxophonist... Gregg Allman: My Cross to Bear
My Cross to Bear Gregg Allman w/ Alan Light Hardback; 380 pages ISBN 978-0062112033 William Morrow 2012
The most vibrant interludes in guitarist and singer Gregg Allman's autobiography are those where he talks about songwriting. His accounts of exchanging and refining ideas, by himself or collaboratively, carries a level of engagement hard to find elsewhere in the 380 plus pages. Little wonder Allman values the gift of songwriting, and does so with a fervor that outshines his description of the spirituality he's come to embrace in his later years: it is his true voice... Kenny Garrett Quartet: Denver, CO, May 4, 2012
Kenny Garrett Quartet Soiled Dove Underground Denver, CO May 4, 2012
The last couple times Kenny Garrett came through Denver, he was a sideman. In 2010 he toured with e: Chick Corea's Freedom Band that also featured m: Christian McBride on bass and 85-year-old m: Roy Haynes on drums. The year before, Garrett was a member of the Five Peace Band which also featured Corea and McBride, along with m: John McLaughlin on guitar and m: Vinnie Colaiuta on drums. His role in both bands was to play the head or theme of the tune with the rest of the band, then lay out until his turn came to solo. Often, his blistering alto sax solos were highlights of the song, but his role was like a relief pitcher's, called on for just a few minutes for a specialized job... Yosvany Terry Quintet at the Jazz Standard
 Yosvany Terry, who played at the Jazz Standard on Wednesday night, has helped reframe the sound of Afro-Cuban jazz in New York. ‘Ethel Waters: Blues, Broadway and Jazz’ at Lincoln Center
 Michael Feinstein led a powerful night of tribute to the jazz singer Ethel Waters at Lincoln Center. Jazzrael Festival in New York
 Over the next week and a half, musicians will take part in Jazzrael, a festival of jazz and world music presented by the Israeli Consulate in New York. Fine and Mellow - Three Voices and Deborah Shulman/Larry Zalkind
Summit Records hits a quiet home run with the release of Three Voices' Transitions and Deborah Shulman and Larry Zalkind's Lost in the Stars: The Music of Bernstein, Weill and Sondheim.
Three Voices Transitions Summit Records 2012
Three Voices is the trio of flugelhornist m: Kim Pensyl, vibraphonist m: Rusty Burge and bassist Michael Sharfe. While a vibraphone-anchored trio is not unheard of, it is a welcome and even novel change from piano- and guitar-centered small ensembles. The vibes lend a light touch to the harmonics of performance, providing an ethereal ambiance to the music. The flugelhorn (as opposed to the trumpet) magnifies these characteristics. Time keeping is the responsibility primarily of the bassist, but all of the principles can influence it... BAM: Bremen Art Music?
[Editor's Note: It's been quite a few years since Italian writer, music educator and general provocateur c: Francesco Martinelli last contributed to All About Jazz. Having recently returned home from Jazzahead! 2012 in Bremen, and with the current debates about the meaning, future and relevance of the word "jazz" fresh in his mind, Martinelli posits an alternate meaning to trumpeter m: Nicholas Payton's recent BAM campaign... United Nations Tunes Up for First International Jazz Day
 Unesco is preparing to celebrate the first International Jazz Day with a concert Monday at the United Nations General Assembly. Farmers Market: Slav to the Rhythm
Farmers Market Slav to the Rhythm Division Records 2012
It's hard to believe that music can be so compelling that, even if only heard in passing, it's still so absolutely memorable. Catching just the first few minutes of Farmers Market at Natt Jazz 2011, thanks to an ungodly airport pickup time the following morning, left such an impression that when the first notes of the opening title track to Slav to the Rhythm hit the speakers nearly a year later, it was immediately clear that this was the same piece with which this remarkable Norwegian/Bulgarian hybrid opened its show. The record features, in addition to the core touring quintet, a cast of 14 additional guests, and main mastermind/multi-instrumentalist Stian Carstensen performs on no less than 22 instruments. Live, however, the significantly pared-down instrumentation of the five-piece Farmers Market meant that, for example, a brief interlude in the song was covered by Carstensen on accordion rather than organ, lending it an entirely different complexion... Wayne Krantz: Howie 61
Wayne Krantz Howie 61 Abstract Logix 2012
He's long been a musician's musician and a guitarist's guitarist--there's a reason m: Steely Dan's m: Donald Fagen recruited him for his last solo disc, Morph the Cat (Reprise, 2006), and saxophonists m: David Binney and m: Chris Potter called him up for Graylen Epicenter (Mythology, 2011) and Underground (Sunnyside, 2006), respectively. Krantz's instantly recognizable, head-cocking idiosyncracies, combined with his distinctive harmonic language and effortless ability to groove, even at his most oblique, continues to be a lightning rod, with drummer/keyboardist m: Gary Husband also recruiting him for a track on this year's Dirty and Beautiful Volume 2 (Abstract Logix)... Wishbone Ash: Live Dates II / Elegant Stealth
One of the most underrated bands to emerge from Britain in the late 1960s to early 1970s, Wishbone Ash achieved a fine balance between progressive and blues-rock. Its original material made prominent use of tandem lead guitars, mirrored by equally uplifting group harmony singing. These virtues distinguish the sound of the band to this day, as evidenced by comparison between a studio album, Elegant Stealth, and a live recording, Live Dates II, previously available in a variety of formats, but here in its entirety on a single compact disc... Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland 2012: Days 6-12
Days 1-5 | Days 6-12
33rd Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio April 16-29, 2012
Chapter Index April 24: Ernie Krivda's Thunder From the Heartland April 25: Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts April 26: The Jack DeJohnette Group April 27: David Sanborn Trio / Trombone Shorty April 28: Diana Krall April 26: TCJF SoundWorks... Wayne Shorter Quartet at Rose Theater
The Wayne Shorter Quartet gave a magnificent and volatile performance at the Rose Theater on Friday night. Lewis Nash All-Stars with Wynton Marsalis, Phoenix, AZ, April 11, 2011
Lewis Nash All-Stars with Wynton Marsalis Musical Instrument Museum Phoenix, AZ April 11, 2012
An evening of bebop, swing, Latin and blues celebrated acclaimed drummer m: Lewis Nash and raised funds for youth programs of Jazz in Arizona. The 35-year-old nonprofit jazz-support organization recently opened The Nash, a performance and youth education center established in Phoenix to honor the musician in his hometown... Robert Fripp / Andrew Keeling / David Singleton: The Wine of Silence
Robert Fripp / Andrew Keeling / David Singleton The Wine of Silence DGM Live 2012
It's strange how things sometimes come around full circle...well, almost. After helping to define symphonic prog with King Crimson and the seminal In the Court of the Crimson King (DGM Live, 1969)--mellotrons screaming instead of a real orchestras swirling--the rigors of the road, and keeping a band together, caused co-founder/guitarist Robert Fripp to desert such problems entirely by 1975. He began touring with fellow sonic explorer m: Brian Eno in support of their groundbreakers No Pussyfooting (DGM Live, 1973) and Evening Star (DGM Live, 1975), where Fripp's spontaneous improvisations were looped between two Revox tape recorders to create an approach to real-time layering and two-person orchestration called Frippertronics... Chano Domínguez at the Jazz Standard
Chano Domínguez reimagines Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue” in his show at the Jazz Standard. Teresa Salgueiro: Belgrade, Serbia, 18 April 2012
Teresa Salgueiro Dom Sindikata Belgrade, Serbia April 18, 2012
There is a secret love affair between Teresa Salgueiro and the city of Belgrade that has been happening for many years. For the past several years, with her former band Madredeus or with her many solo projects, this city has been a regular stop on the renowned Portuguese singer's many tours. Nevertheless, this accomplished singer--with a voice and charisma that have been enchanting audiences around the globe for many years--has built a regular and dedicated audience that is always eager to see and hear what new music she has to present... Teddy Charles, Jazz Musician Turned Sea Captain, Dies at 84
 Mr. Charles was a gifted vibraphonist who teamed up with many of the musicians who revolutionized jazz in the 1940s and ’50s and then literally sailed away to become a sea captain. By: Maryland Real Estate | Baltimore Real Estate | Annapolis Real Estate
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