New Artist Profiles: Jason Rigby, Carlo Costa, Darius Jones
New artist profiles have been added for tenor saxophonist Jason Rigby, percussionist Carlo Costa, and alto saxophonist Darius Jones. Welcome!
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Incredible September Listing of Concerts
This month has a particularly exciting list of concerts. The highlights include: Peter Evans residency at The Stone, Sep 10-15 Secret Keeper at Douglass Street Music Collective, Sep 6 Harris Eisenstadt’s Golden State at Greenwich House Music School, Sep 12 Jonathan Moritz’ Secret Tempo at Barbes (CD RELEASE), Sep 17 PascAli at Panoply Performance Lab,
Playlist for Week of 24 August 2013
Last week’s playlist: Max Johnson Quartet – self-titled Max Johnson Trio – Elevated Vegetation Nate Wooley Sextet – (Sit in) the Throne of Friendship Joey Baron – Just Listen Estamos Trio – People’s Historia Sifter – self-titled Peter Evans – Zebulon Nate Wooley, Scott R. Looney, Damon Smith, Weasel Walter – Scowl
Support Jemeel Moondoc’s Kickstarter campaign
This looks like a great project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1769859387/the-zoo-keepers-house-a-new-cd-from-jemeel-moondoc
New Artist Profiles Added: Max Johnson, Carl Maguire, James Ilgenfritz
Please welcome bassist Max Johnson, pianist Carl Maguire, and bassist James Ilgenfritz.
Playlist for the Week of 17 Aug 2013
Mary Halvorson Quintet – Bending Bridges [vinyl] MAP – Fever Dream [vinyl] People – self-titled [vinyl] Boom Box – Jazz (Willi Kellers, Thomas Borgmann, Akira Ando) John Hebert – Byzantine Monkey Angelica Sanchez – Mirror Me Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique – I Tyshawn Sorey – That/Not Secret Keeper – Super Eight Josh Sinton – Pine
Video Archive is Now Live
An archive of concert videos is now available on Jazz Right Now: Video A special thanks to Kevin Reilly, who did all of the video work. The videos date from June 2012 to the present, with more to be added for earlier dates. Re-experience your favorite live show or check out one that you missed!
August Artist Feature: Mary Halvorson
Mary Halvorson has emerged over the past decade as one of the most singularly creative and fresh musical voices of her generation. She has redefined the guitar as an instrument and how it is incorporated into jazz and creative music contexts. She has also developed innovative techniques of playing guitar by employing a line six
Playlist for Week of 3 August 2013
Anthony Braxton & Taylor Ho Bynum – Duo (Amherst) 2010 (DVD) Nate Wooley – (Put Your) Hands Together Shayna Dulberger – Ache & Flutter Kirk Knuffke – Amnesia Brown Surface to Air – self-titled SKM – Three Jeff Davis – Leaf House Angelica Sanchez – A Little House Farmers by Nature – Out of This
Help Kickstart Ideal Bread’s 3rd Album!
Ideal Bread, led by reeds player Josh Sinton, has been an important and forward-looking band on the New York Scene over the past 7 years (together with cornetist Kirk Knuffke, drummer Tomas Fujiwara, and the newest member, bassist Adam Hopkins). Please consider contributing towards the production costs of their next album which looks so promising.