A public memorial event for musician/composer/educator/artist Bill Dixon will be held tomorrow from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at St. Mark’s Church In The Bowery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The centerpiece of the program will be a performance of Dixon’s last composition by…
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Eri Yamamoto Trio At Cornelia Street Café This Sunday
July 30, 2010 – 7:29 am
On Sunday, August 1st, pianist/composer Eri Yamamoto and her longstanding trio, featuring bassist David Ambrosio and drummer Ikuo Takeuchi, will celebrate their recent AUM Fidelity release, In Each Day, Something Good (AUM059), with a two-set performance at Cornelia Street Café….
Darius Jones’ Three-Night Residency At Roulette Begins Tonight
July 28, 2010 – 7:58 am
Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist/composer Darius Jones‘ latest three-night residency at New York’s Roulette begins tonight. Jones, who was recently nominated for Up & Coming Artist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association, will be performing with both his longstanding working trio and…
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society At CareFusion Jazz Festival Newport August 7th
July 23, 2010 – 9:20 am
Two weeks from tomorrow, Darcy James Argue‘s Secret Society and special guest Bob Brookmeyer will perform on the Harbor Stage at CareFusion Jazz Festival Newport. “Mr. Wein asked if I might like to invite my compositional mentor, Bob Brookmeyer, to…
Tonight: Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone At Sycamore
July 23, 2010 – 6:54 am
Guitarist Mary Halvorson and violist Jessica Pavone will perform tonight at Sycamore in Brooklyn. The longstanding duo is scheduled to play the second set of the night at 9:00 p.m., in between solo drum sets by Brian Chase and Ches…
Cadence: Myra Melford, Joe Morris, David S. Ware and Eri Yamamoto
July 22, 2010 – 6:49 am
The Jul/Aug/Sep 2010 issue of Cadence arrived earlier this week and with it reviews of four of our clients’ recent releases. Philip McNally calls Be Bread, the group on pianist/composer Myra Melford‘s latest release, The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12…
Mary Halvorson At The Whitney’s Christian Marclay: Festival
July 21, 2010 – 6:16 am
Starting this afternoon, guitarist Mary Halvorson will be performing numerous times over the next two weeks at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York as part of the ongoing exhibition, Christian Marclay: Festival. Ms. Halvorson, who Howard Mandel called “NYC’s…
Bill Dixon Memorial Event To Be Held July 31st At New York’s St. Mark’s Church In The Bowery
July 20, 2010 – 9:01 am
On Saturday, July 31st from 5:30-7:30 p.m., musician/composer/educator/artist Bill Dixon will be remembered with a memorial event at St. Mark’s Church In The Bowery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Dixon, an innovator in the world of creative improvised music and…
Taylor Ho Bynum To Introduce Revamped Sextet In August
July 15, 2010 – 8:04 am
This August, cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum will unveil the latest incarnation of his five year-old working ensemble, the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet, when he and the group hit the road to perform a brand new book of music. These pieces…
Mary Halvorson Trio On Tour In August
July 14, 2010 – 9:05 am
This August, guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson and her working trio with bassist John Hébert and drummer Ches Smith will play three concerts in three countries. The mini-tour begins Thursday, August 5th with a two-set performance at New York’s Cornelia Street Café,…