Interviews Mary Halvorson (March Artist Feature) Tomas Fujiwara short interviews (part 1, part 2) Videos Matt Lavelle’s 12 Houses Live at the Firehouse Space Thollem McDonas and Lukas Ligeti Live at Spectrum Michael T.A. Thompson Live at First Street Green (Arts for Art) Playlist Week of March 23, 2015
Videos Michael Foster-Ben Bennett Duo Live at Soup & Sound Pulverize the Sound Live at Manhattan Inn Chris Pitsiokos Trio Live at Ran Tea House Jonathan Moritz’ Secret Tempo Live at I-Beam (New York Tenor Saxophone Festival) Yoni Kretzmer 2Bass Quartet Live at I-Beam (New York Tenor Saxophone Festival) Ras Moshe Trio Live at I-Beam
Press Release On February 17 at 7 PM, Spectrum will present a US premiere screening of The Passion of Joe, a documentary by a Taiwanese musician Yi-Chen Chang and American filmmaker Richard Widmer. The film deals with Joe Maneri (1927-2009), a visionary and individualistic figure of American jazz and avant garde. The viewers will get
New York Tenor Saxophone Festival curated by JazzRightNow.com, Jan 29-31, 2015 Ibeam Brooklyn (168 7th Street) $15 per night, $35 festival pass Thursday, January 29 8 pm – Jonathan Moritz Trio with Shayna Dulberger, Mike Pride 9 pm – Yoni Kretzmer’s Double Bass Quartet with Reuben Radding, Sean Conly, Mike Pride Friday, January 30 8
January Artist Feature Interview with Yoni Kretzmer Videos Ken Vandermark and Nate Wooley Live at Conundrum Music Hall Ken Vandermark Solo Live at Conundrum Music Hall Nate Wooley Solo Live at Conundrum Music Hall Nate Wooley Solo “For Kenneth Gaburo” at Avant Media Ava Mendoza Solo Live in Red Hook Frank Gratkowski Solo Live at
One of the greatest musical sensations to hit New York City in the past year, the four-saxophone group Battle Trance is completing its U.S. Tour with a turn through the southern United States before taking their music to the Midwest. Here are the confirmed dates: Jan 24: Pyramid Atlantic — Silver Spring, MD Jan 25:
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many
I would like to thank all of the readers who have visited the site in 2014. The internet traffic to Jazz Right Now nearly tripled this year. I have worked tirelessly to make this the first stop for anyone interested in the creative music scene in Brooklyn and greater New York City. This year, I
Best Albums of 2014 Best of 2014 Interviews Max Johnson Harris Eisenstadt Videos Oscar Noriega Solo Live at Snugs at 61 Local VoiceHornsBass Live at First Street Green (Arts for Art) We All Break Live at the Stone New Band Pages Battle Trance Carlo Costa Solo Double Double Hag How to Make a Mountain Sean
This was an amazing year with a number of innovative and revolutionary releases that made it very difficult to choose. I spent many days narrowing the best records of 2014 down to fifteen: Josh Sinton’s Ideal Bread – Beating the Teens (Cuneiform) Travis Laplante’s Battle Trance – Palace of Wind (NNA Tapes) Rodrigo Amado Motion
