Wednesday Feb 3 | All About Jazz
Soren Bebe Trio: From Out Here
Your Favourite Jazz Like the derelict buildings that are placed in the background on the cover of From Out Here , Danish pianist Soren Bebe's music carries the timely imprint of a melancholy longing that arises from neglect and the sense of a void that can't be filled.
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If the carefully composed, monochrome cover art of the John Turville Trio's debut album suggests the ECM label's house style, the coincidence is appropriate.
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HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: KEITH JARRETT, CAETANO VELOSO, BOBBY McFERRIN, KURT ELLING WITH THE COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA, BOOKER T., PHAROAH SANDERS, JOSHUA REDMAN, CHARLES LLOYD, MAX RAABE, SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE, MARCUS MILLER, ZAKIR HUSSAIN, LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO, DIANNE REEVES, MACEO PARKER, PUNCH BROS W/ CHRIS THILE, SOULIVE, AL DI MEOLA'S WORLD SINFONIA, ...
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A Conversation with Manfred Eicher
Eicher founded ECM Records in 1969, going on to produce standard-setting recordings by artists such as Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, and Pat Metheny.
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Jazz icon says in new disc liner notes that style started in Allentown
Jazz piano icon Keith Jarrett, who is credited with single-handedly creating an audience for extended solo piano improvisations, in the liner notes to his latest album gives a startlingly personal account of how he began that style as a boy in Allentown.
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Gwilym Simcock: It's All Just Music
Ian is dedicated to the promotion of jazz all over the world and to catching just a little piece of it for himself.
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40 Years Old, a Musical House Without Walls
SPEND enough time pondering ECM, a revered German classical and jazz label celebrating its 40th anniversary, and you are tempted to ascribe mystical powers of foresight and intuition to its founder, Manfred Eicher, such are the strands of continuity and serendipity that wind through its history.
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Gwilym Simcock: Blues Vignette
Ian is dedicated to the promotion of jazz all over the world and to catching just a little piece of it for himself.
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Ella Fitzgerald, Keith Jarrett, and the best jazz albums of 2009....
The best jazz album of 2009 was recorded in 1961 and '62, a four-CD boxed set of Ella Fitzgerald and her trio, performing live in a small club on the Sunset Strip.
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Steven Schoenberg: Steven Schoenberg Live: An Improvisational Journey
Like the face of Helen launching a thousand ships, for better or worse, Keith Jarrett 's 1975 Koln Concert inspired a like number of improvisational piano recitals and the entire genre of "New Age" solo piano music.
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McCoy Tyner: alone and (in spirit) with SFJAZZ Collective
Usually, the kind of passionate tribute SFJAZZ Collective delivers annually is reserved for artists who are either no longer on the scene, or whose productivity has seriously tanked.
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Nucleus Jazz Band @ Pacifica Spindrift, Dec. 5
Last benefit concert of the year this Saturday, December 5, with Alex Bootzin's jazz band Nucleus at 8 p.m. playing jazz arrangements of holiday classics from its CD Yuletide Jazz .
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Saturday Night Music: Keith Jarrett, 'Sun Bear Concerts, Osaka Part 1'
I don't know about you, but I'm ready for some music after another insanely contentious week.
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Keith Jarrett - The fine art of extra-sensory improvisation
The jazz giant Keith Jarrett talks to Kevin le Gendre about the challenges of playing what has not been played before, the struggle to avoid self-repetition and the need for a life away from the city Getty Nil by mouth: Keith Jarrett calls for cathedral-like silence in concert enlarge A cruise ship crossed the Caribbean Sea some time in the mid ...
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Bill Charlap Trio in Ann Arbor
While much of the credit for reinventing the standard repertoire via the piano trio can go to Keith Jarrett , the pianist's muse is more about using such chestnuts as a launching point for his own self-probing and extended improvisations.
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Soft Machine: Live at Henie Onstad Arts Centre 1971
With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.
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INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Other Places: Doing Monk
In his blog I Witness , Ed Leimbacher muses about the pervasiveness of Thelonious Monk as a model for or influence on other pianists.
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The cool December weather has always made Bangkok an ideal location for outdoor concerts, and this year on December 11 and 12, Niu's on Silom jazz club, wine bar and restaurant at Baan Silom Arcade, will present the first Niu's International Bangkok Jazz Festival, an open-air festival featuring Thai and international jazz and blues musicians.
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Lexington Ballet Puts 'the Koln Concert' in Motion
Lexington Ballet artistic director Luis Dominguez and dancer Ashley Wilcock staged a photo similar to that on the cover of Keith Jarrett's 1975 album The Kln Concert.
Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Lexington Metro, Lexington, KY, Jazz
Anouar Brahem: The Astounding Eyes of Rita
The Astounding Eyes of Rita rings to life on four resonant notes from Tunisian oudist Anouar Brahem, joined in short order by the deep, rich tone of Klaus Gesing's bass clarinet.
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