Jazzed: Women’s Voices Festivals 2010 Popular Series Gets A Makeover The 2010 edition of Women’s Voices, the nearly annual concert series that showcases the area’s exceptional female vocal talent, introduces new curators, a [...] Mel Minter \ Jun 17, 2010 Read More Ella Fitzgerald
Jazzed: The Password To Vernon’s Black Diamond Jazz Club Revealed But You Gotta Know The Password Vernon’s Hidden Valley Steakhouse, a classy restaurant on North Fourth, has done very well pretending to be a speakeasy. Advertising has been low-key—what [...] Mel Minter \ May 27, 2010 Read More Tommy Gearhart performs at Vernon’s Black Diamond Jazz Club.
Patti Littlefield Is Out In Front Again While she’s been doing other projects—most notably, Resonance with tuba player Mark Weaver, as well as the quartet Woof!—vocalist Patti Littlefield has not [...] Mel Minter \ May 27, 2010 Read More
Jazzed: John Trentacosta And Straight Up Swing Straight Ahead Quintet Features Arlen Asher And Bobby Shew Don’t take it from us. Others much more in the know said it first.Take the late alto saxophonist Frank Morgan, who relocated to [...] Mel Minter \ May 20, 2010 Read More Straight Up stands up for a photo.
A Jazz Tribute (X 12) Cal Haines’ Tribute Trio—John Rangel (piano), Michael Glynn (bass) and Cal Haines (drums)—will honor Horace Silver on the inaugural night of a 12-concert [...] Mel Minter \ May 13, 2010 Read More Horace Silver
Jazzed: Ila Cantor’s Playful Puzzles Guitarist Ila Cantor's Trio Finds New Routes To Familiar Destinations Listening to the variety of compositions penned by guitarist Ila Cantor, you get the sense that she is as comfortable in Brooklyn’s new [...] Mel Minter \ May 06, 2010 Read More Ila Cantor
Golden Sounds Trombonist, percussionist, composer and arranger César Bauvallet spent his childhood immersed in the sones, danzones, boleros and cha-cha-chas of Cuba’s Golden Era of [...] Mel Minter \ Apr 29, 2010 Read More
Pianist Omar Sosa’s Afreecanos Quartet Communes With The Spirits Cuban pianist, marimbist and composer Omar Sosa plays up and down the tree of music, sounding its deepest African roots and the greenest [...] Mel Minter \ Apr 15, 2010 Read More Omar Sosa stresses the importance of having fun. (Yannick Perrin)
Sonic Reducer: Ben Goldberg, Rufus Reid, Tin Hat Ben Goldberg packs a lot of music in his clarinet case—including jazz, Ashkenazi roots music and chamber music. His latest combo features musicians [...] Mel Minter \ Apr 15, 2010 Read More
Jazz, Deconstructed Series Explores Jazz’ Roots And Branches Jazz, Deconstructed, a new four-concert series, features local artists with visionary projects that stretch from New Orleans’ Congo Square to an electrocoustic jazz/hip-hop [...] Mel Minter \ Apr 08, 2010 Read More Luís Guerra and Amani Malaika