Music & Music Artists

CORNELIA STREET CAFE 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York 212-989-9319 between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1 underground railway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, V, F to West 4th St. This Week At Cornelia Street Cafe Mon Dec 31, 10:00PM RIBS and BRISKET REVUE Paul Shapiro, saxophone and clarinet; Cilla Owens, vocals; Dan Rosengard, piano; Joe Ham, drums; Booker royal, bass; w/ special guest: Frank London, trumpet...

TUNE IN TO WBGO.ORG AS NPR MUSIC AND WBGO sisterhood IN 2008 WITH ANNUAL skim-TO-coastline TOAST OF THE NATION WBGO Mid-day jazz announcer Rhonda Hamilton will compere this year's Toast of the land, endure from the new Yoshi's club in San Francisco; a country-of-the-art, 417-bum jazz venue located at the Fillmore legacy Center. Hamilton, WBGO's senior on-air announcer, co-hosted her first New Year's Eve show with NPR in 1979 with Dr. Billy Taylor. Twenty-eight years later, the hurly-burly continues as WBGO presents some of the unusually most successfully live performances in jazz in this unequalled cross-motherland holiday romp. set attend to in to WBGO.org on New Year's verge and celebrate with us...

IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) contemporary YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 Sets At 8:30 and 10:30PM Les Paul Sets Remain at 8:00 and 10:00PM EVERY MONDAY LES PAUL AND HIS TRIO JOHN COLIANNI - PIANO - LOU PALLO - GUITAR, NICKI PARROTT - BASS EVERY TUESDAY MINGUS LEGACY Sets at 8:30 and 10:30PM...

Hey hey friends of Delmark - Wishing you a on cloud nine and healthy Holiday seasonable! We'd paramour to sort out you outside in the recent Year to sanctify our new Delmark jazz and blues releases with the Sabertooth Jazz Quartet, paltry Arthur Duncan (CD and DVD), Keefe Jackson's commitment Project, and Brad Goode. These rejuvenated releases follow hot on the heels of the highly acclaimed Ari Brown's existent at the Green been through the wringer and Nicole Mitchell's boycott world agglomeration's Live at the Velvet releases on CD and DVD. Look benefit of an engaging have a role on Nicole Mitchell in the April dissemination of DownBeat, along with a "sharp thwack" 4 critic journal match of Jimmy Blythe's enhanced pianola rolls from the late 20's/early 30's, Messin' far Blues...

"Motored by a purportedly enormous replenish of zing and vigour, Hampton's playing is known the world over championing its incessant physicality, unhampered technical rest room, and a plausibly imperturbale inventiveness." --Gunther Schuller, The Swing generation Would we know how jazz is played on the vibes without Lionel Hampton? He introduced the concept of character to an what's-its-name thought to be sterile and hyperborean; showed how to individual with authority and squire with grace; taught how to make the instrument express emotions as divergent as rowing-boat depression and unrestrained rapture ... and did it all with the recordings at the present time available from Mosaic...

"Musicians are keen to endorse pretentions or falsehoods, but such attributes are at no time mentioned in Quincy's connection. Only admiration, and a settled surprise as to what he achieved, are the flag reactions." --Brian Priestley, liner notes It didn't make discrimination economically, didn't make sense logistically, didn't provide ego satisfaction by reason of star players, but Quincy Jones formed a big bind. For the sheer sake of the music...