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State-of-the-Art Big Band Jazz and a Shapeshifter Show by John Yao’s 17-Piece...
John Yao is one of New York’s elite trombonists, and a frequent performer with both Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.Yao is also a first-class, ambitious...
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The Cutting-Edge Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Play a Rare Weeklong Stand At Their...
This year the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra celebrates 49 years as a New York institution. They were a lot different when trumpeter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis founded the group in 1966 as a way to blow...
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Bassist Rufus Reid Brings His Stunningly Intense Big Band to the Jazz Standard
One of the most exciting and highly anticipated stands by any jazz group in recent months is coming up at the Jazz Standard starting this Thursday, Feb 26 when venerable bassist Rufus Reid and his big...
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Rufus Reid’s Big Band Delivers Sophistication and Tradition at the Jazz Standard
There was a lot of fun onstage last night at the Jazz Standard. There was a downwardly spiraling, menacingly chromatic Freddie Hendrix trumpet solo that might have been the higlight of the evening....
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The Brussels Jazz Orchestra Sells Out Lincoln Center with Their Edgy,...
The Brussels Jazz Orchestra wound up their stand at Jazz at Lincoln Center Sunday night with their sixth consecutive sold-out show. There’s a reason why European big bands are so popular and highly...
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Ryan Truesdell’s Gil Evans Project Does It Again Live at the Jazz Standard
Pretty much everybody, at least in the jazz world, agreed that Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans, by conductor and Evans scholar Ryan Truesdell’s Gil Evans Project, was the best album of...
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Todd Marcus Brings His Mighty, Majestic Middle Eastern Jazz to Brooklyn
Todd Marcus is not only one of the great individualists in jazz, he’s also a great composer. His axe is the bass clarinet, which he’s worked hard to elevate from mere anchor of the low reeds to a lead...
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The Maria Schneider Orchestra Bring a Luminous, Relevant New Album to a Stand...
To pigeonhole the Maria Schneider Orchestra‘s latest magnum opus, The Thompson Fields. as pastoral jazz downplays its genuinely extraordinary beauty and epic sweep. But a musicologist would probably...
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The Maria Schneider Orchestra Play Gorgeously Lush Pastoral Jazz at Birdland...
Sometimes you have to see a piece of music live to understand it. Beyond the endless multitask and distractions while the album or the mp3 spins – do mp3s spin, or at least wish they do? – some music...
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A Lively, Richly Arranged New Big Band Album and a Smalls Show from Emilio Solla
Pianist Emilio Solla writes colorful, rhythmic, ambitiously orchestrated music that could be called latin jazz, but it’s a lot more eclectic and global in scope than your basic salsa vamp with long...
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State-of-the-Art Big Band Jazz and a Shapeshifter Show by John Yao’s 17-Piece...
John Yao is one of New York’s elite trombonists, and a frequent performer with both Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.Yao is also a first-class, ambitious...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Cutting-Edge Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Play a Rare Weeklong Stand At Their...
This year the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra celebrates 49 years as a New York institution. They were a lot different when trumpeter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis founded the group in 1966 as a way to blow...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bassist Rufus Reid Brings His Stunningly Intense Big Band to the Jazz Standard
One of the most exciting and highly anticipated stands by any jazz group in recent months is coming up at the Jazz Standard starting this Thursday, Feb 26 when venerable bassist Rufus Reid and his big...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rufus Reid’s Big Band Delivers Sophistication and Tradition at the Jazz Standard
There was a lot of fun onstage last night at the Jazz Standard. There was a downwardly spiraling, menacingly chromatic Freddie Hendrix trumpet solo that might have been the higlight of the evening....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Brussels Jazz Orchestra Sells Out Lincoln Center with Their Edgy,...
The Brussels Jazz Orchestra wound up their stand at Jazz at Lincoln Center Sunday night with their sixth consecutive sold-out show. There’s a reason why European big bands are so popular and highly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ryan Truesdell’s Gil Evans Project Does It Again Live at the Jazz Standard
Pretty much everybody, at least in the jazz world, agreed that Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans, by conductor and Evans scholar Ryan Truesdell’s Gil Evans Project, was the best album of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Todd Marcus Brings His Mighty, Majestic Middle Eastern Jazz to Brooklyn
Todd Marcus is not only one of the great individualists in jazz, he’s also a great composer. His axe is the bass clarinet, which he’s worked hard to elevate from mere anchor of the low reeds to a lead...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Maria Schneider Orchestra Bring a Luminous, Relevant New Album to a Stand...
To pigeonhole the Maria Schneider Orchestra‘s latest magnum opus, The Thompson Fields. as pastoral jazz downplays its genuinely extraordinary beauty and epic sweep. But a musicologist would probably...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Maria Schneider Orchestra Play Gorgeously Lush Pastoral Jazz at Birdland...
Sometimes you have to see a piece of music live to understand it. Beyond the endless multitask and distractions while the album or the mp3 spins – do mp3s spin, or at least wish they do? – some music...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Lively, Richly Arranged New Big Band Album and a Smalls Show from Emilio Solla
Pianist Emilio Solla writes colorful, rhythmic, ambitiously orchestrated music that could be called latin jazz, but it’s a lot more eclectic and global in scope than your basic salsa vamp with long...
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