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Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
FROM 808 State to a 22-piece string orchestra, Manchester Jazz Festival enters its 13th year with an eclectic mix of cutting edge jazz from the north west to Cuba.
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Jazz@Rochester (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Our local PBS station, WXXI will begin broadcasting performances from the 2007 Rochester International Jazz Festival in high definition on Sunday at 7:00 pm on WXXI-HD 1011/DT21.2 and PBS-HD. The show, has played on PBS stations nationwide, but will now...
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Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
FROM 808 State to a 22-piece string orchestra, Manchester Jazz Festival enters its 13th year with an eclectic mix of cutting edge jazz from the north west to Cuba.
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
TAKE A JAZZ JOURNEY TO NEWPORT AND SPEND THE DAY AT THE JVC JAZZ FESTIVAL AUGUST 9 and/or 10 Saturday: Aretha Franklin, Wayne Shorter, Chris Botti, Charlie Haden, Dave Holland, Ledisi, Christian Scott and Many More! Sunday: Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Anthony Hamilton, Soulive, George Wein, Esperanza Spalding, Guillermo Klein and Many More...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
The Israel Festival International Jazz Festival Jerusalem, Israel June 15-17, 2008 This year's scheduling of the programs for the Israel Jazz Festival was promising. The grouping of the Bill Frisell Quartet, Nils Wogram's Root 70, Marcin Wasilewski Trio and Anat Fort Trio performances in three successive days enabled festival-goers to examine some common conventions about the differences between European...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
August 16, 2008 Cambridge YMCA Theatre 820 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA Bill Frisell and the Daniel Bennett Group will play a rare double bill performance at the restored Cambridge YMCA Theatre (820 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA). Bill Frisell is one of the top rated jazz guitarists in the country. Bill Frisell has collaborated with Paul Motian, John Zorn, Elvis Costello, Ginger Baker, The Los...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The sixth installment of the Bennett Alliance Concert Series has arrived. Bill Frisell and the Daniel Bennett Group will play a rare double bill performance at the restored Cambridge YMCA Theatre (820 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA). The show starts at 8pm and admission is just $25! Visit bennettalliance.com for advance tickets and more information...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron has a new, all-instrumental jazz trio, Harrybu McCage, featuring keyboardist and guitarist Ryan Burns and bassist Geoff Harper (who has worked with Herbie Hancock and Bill Frisell). The trio's new self-titled album -- on Pearl Jam's Monkey Wrench label -- arrives in independent music stores Tuesday but also can be purchased through Ten Club at .
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Listening Post (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Eddie Vedder goes it alone in August. Drummer Matt Cameron dabbles in jazz. Has the greatest rock band alive called it a career? Nah, they're just busy as hell. It's been a crazy 2008 so far for the Pearl Jam...
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Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
My friend, Jezra Kaye, sent me this review of a recent concert of a band that includes Prospect Heights bassist, Jerome Harris. Harris has played with so many jazz musicians I don't know where to begin. For starters, Jack DeJohnette, Bill Frisell, Ray Anderson, Don Byron, Bobby Previte, Oliver Lake, Amina Claudine Myers, Bob Stewart, George Russell, Julius Hemphill, and Bob Moses. The excerpt from...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
See and hear more exciting scenes and sounds from the Rochester International Jazz Festival on PBS stations around the nation. WXXI Public Broadcasting (wxxi.org) in Rochester, NY will present season two of the Festival capturing the essence of the 2007 nine-day music festival with spectacular performances by some of today's hottest musicians and legendary names in jazz...
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More Cowbell (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Unfortunately Bill’s mom is not doing so well and the show @ The Cedar tonight is canceled. Click here for more info..
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Hank Roberts' Green probably has nothing to do with going "green" (the trendy cultural buzzword for being ecologically aware). But it does offer music that has the environmental aura of expansive open plains, ruralesque backdrops, and majestic mountainscapes within a distinct, rustic and avant-garde music setting...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell has cancelled his Friday appearance at the 8 Days in June festival due to a family illness.
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Metro Detroit's two major classical music festivals overlap for a few more days, before the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's 8 Days in June bows out Saturday and the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival motors on for another week.
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gorgoroth | 05/24/2008
Jazz CD Mark O'Leary/ Uri Caine/ Ben Perowsky, Closure (Leo) John Fordham Friday January 13, 2006 The Guardian Buy Closure now As a project with its inspiration avowedly in the music of the eclectic but jazz-rooted piano star Paul Bley, this is perhaps not the usual fare from category-busting European label Leo Records. But almost nothing with New York pianist/composer Uri Caine on it follows a straight
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gorgoroth | 05/24/2008
As a distantly Bill Frisell-like player who has kept company with class acts like pianists Paul Bley, Uri Caine and Matthew Shipp, as well as Polish trumpet star Tomasz Stanko, Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary is entitled to a bigger reputation. This trio set finds him with Pat Metheny's remarkable Vietnamese trumpeter Cuong Vu, and the Tim Berne percussionist Tom Rainey, on a set of pieces dedicated
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gorgoroth | 05/24/2008
As off-the-mainstream jazz sinks deeper into a niche, it's more difficult to track down all of the great improvisers in America-- let alone the rest of the world, where a glance at the hatArt or Leo Records catalogs turns up dozens of new and unfamiliar names. So I was pleased to discover the work of Mark O'Leary, a guitarist based in Cork, Ireland-- and was even more surprised to learn he'd worked