Jazz
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Nir Felder explained where he was coming from and then showed where he was AT at a le poisson rouge album release party…
The Newport Jazz Festival turns 60 this year and a tremendous all-star band is playing selections that give a flavor for six decades of memorable artists and performances. I spoke with Randy Brecker about the tour and his co-conspirators; bandleader/saxophonist/clarinetist Anat Cohen, vocalist Karrin Allyson, guitarist Mark Whitfield, pianist Peter […]
Bill Frisell explored the music of The Bristol Sessions with Buddy Miller and Carrie Rodriguez this weekend at JALC.
It was a ridiculous weekend as I doubled dipped at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Friday and saw arguably the greatest living harmonica player AND the greatest living sax player in the same evening – James Cotton in the spectacular Allen Room and Pharoah Sanders at Dizzys. As I’m a […]
I don’t remember ever having heard the 1979 classic Cruel to be Kind in concert before last month but I heard it twice in the span of a couple of weeks. The first was at the Nick Lowe show at Town Hall on April 25th. The 63 year old Lowe […]