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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Not that Rifftides intends to become a clearing house for performance announcements, but readers do sometimes send valuable listening information. Jack Kenny writes from London: You might want to alert your readers to this. The London Jazz Festival has just finished. I went to to the Carla concert last week and it is broadcast tomorrow. It will be online all next week on the BBC iPlayer...
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LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Here is a London Jazz Festival round-up, just posted on my Telegraph blog After ten days and more than 250 gigs across London, The London Jazz Festival is over for another year. It’s been popular. The Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican Hall were packed on the nights I went. As were the year-round clubs like the Bulls Head in Barnes, the Vortex and Ronnie Scott’s. And I get reports of...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Carla Bley at the Festival Hall makes for a wellnigh perfect evening.
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LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Review: Carla Bley's Lost Chords plus Julian Siegel Trio (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Jazz Festival, November 17th 2009) I definitely feel the need to spare the reader today, to distil the strongest impressions from four-and-a-half hours spent at the Queen Elizabeth Hall last night into something crisp. If not quite Bridget Jones telegramese, then let every word from now on today fight for its place....
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
There are rick pickings to be had at the 2009 London Jazz Festival.
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PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
These beautifully arranged pieces place this among the really enjoyable and surprising Christmas albums. Over 40 years ago, Carla Bley had a job as an arranger of Christmas carols for schools. She has returned on occasion to festive music since then and now does so in the company of Steve Swallow and the Partyka Brass Quintet. The result is a selection of classic carols, festive hits, and original...
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
With a program that consistently attracts a host of wonderful performers and where living legends appear alongside rising stars, London Jazz Festival (LJF) opens at The Barbican this Friday with a spectacular celebration of 100 years of songwriting. Led by trumpeter/arranger extraordinaire Guy Barker, a 40-piece jazz orchestra and a dazzling array of stellar vocalists draw on significant anniversaries...
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BUZZGRINDER (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Welcome to a week of fancy reissues and box sets. Everyone’s been abuzz about Nirvana’s Bleach reissue. Maybe now’s the time for me to, you know, own a copy of that album. Sad, I know. Also, some other Nirvana reissues, a couple Neutral Milk Hotel 180 gram vinyls, a 4-disc Guided [...]
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Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Reissues are the stars release list this week, with remastered editions of Nirvana's Bleach, two Devo albums (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! and Freedom of Choice), and the Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The...
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LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
I asked blogger and avid gig-goer Patrick Hadfield what he had down as unmissable in the LJF. Here's his answer. Thank you, Patrick! LJF gathers together a variety of gigs, with a high concentration of international stars. These are "must see" gigs, I think, if only because I feel the need to see these stars play. But, in fact, it is only with hindsight that one finds out which gigs really...
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JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Alan Pasqua - Body And Soul (Video Arts Japan/Zoom ) Amy Cervini - Lovefool (Anzic ) Astor Piazzolla - Live & Studio (Phantom ) Beegie Adair - Great American Songbook Collection (Green Hill ) Beegie Adair - The Great American Songbook Collection (Green Hill ) Beegie Adair - The Great American Songbook (Green Hill ) Bill Evans - Bill Evans Album (Phantom ) Bill Evans - Complete Recordings (Indie...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Fifteenth Street Friends Meetinghouse 15 Rutherford Place New York, NY 10003 November 12, 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm Cost: $15 / $10 Students and Seniors On Thursday evening, November 12th, 2009, Unseen Worlds presents a night of piano music at 15th Street Friends Meetinghouse in Manhattan, only 3 blocks walking distance from 14th Street Union Square...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Carla's Christmas Carols? For many, the idea of their favorite jazz artist releasing an album of seasonal songs usually smells of crass commercialism or pure pandering, but leave it to pianist/composer/arranger Carla Bley to produce an album that's as reverentially in the spirit of the season as it gets, while being musically deep enough to fit within her substantial discography with complete relevance...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
With his new quintet, Joe Lovano takes a multicultural approach American saxophonist and composer Joe Lovano is touring with his new quintet, Us Five, and their upcoming show in Prague is the highlight of this season's Agharta Jazz Festival. Born in 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio, Lovano is a powerhouse on the tenor and straight alto saxes, as well as assorted woodwind instruments. He ranks among the top...
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The big take over (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The sound quality of the 180 gram vinyl pressing of this one as well as their second album The Good Earth is absolutely unbelievable. It’s so nice to have these albums available again and with such improved sound quality to boot. The vinyl version features a digital download code where you can download the entire Lp for free plus bonus tracks not found on the Lp. The bonus tracks, including a...
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