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Live Review

The Church Live at B.B. King's Bar And Grill, New York City

Read "The Church Live at B.B. King's Bar And Grill, New York City" reviewed by Mike Perciaccante


The ChurchB.B. King's Bar And GrillNew York, USAFebruary 17, 2011 Three decades of The Church revisited in three classic albums. When Australia's The Church was scheduled, on Thursday, February 17, 2011, to perform Untitled 23 (Second Motion, 2009), Priest = Aura (Arista, 1992) and Starfish (Arista, 1988) in their entirety, it became special event, representing, as they do, classic releases from each of the band's three-decade existence. The evening began when Matt ...

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Multiple Reviews

The Church: Insinuating and Addictive

Read "The Church: Insinuating and Addictive" reviewed by Doug Collette


The prolific output of The Church is in direct proportion to its devoted fans' appetite for the music. How else would this veteran Australian quartet be able to work so independently and successfully for over two decades, with only a single foray into the mainstream via 1988's “Under The Milky Way Tonight"?

The quality of the work has much to do with the support it receives as The Church records regularly in a variety of formats and concepts. But even ...

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Album Review

The Church: Uninvited, Like The Clouds

Read "Uninvited, Like The Clouds" reviewed by Doug Collette


If you don't know the Church beyond the group's one mainstream hit, “Under the Milky Way Tonight, it's not likely you'll attribute any genuine jazz connotation to the 26-year-old quartet or its music. Yet even if you're familiar with the Church, it may not be readily apparent how its mysterious, almost mystical, collective creativity resembles the process of improvisation--never more so, perhaps, than on this album.

First of all, as usual, the material is all original, credited equally to the ...

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Performance / Tour

Don't miss the 13tet In Concert at the Church of the Holy Trinity in New York on May 19th

Don't miss the 13tet In Concert at the Church of the Holy Trinity in New York on May 19th

Source: Chris Gulhaugen

13tet is a group of seasoned New York jazz players, playing charts that let them blow! Smaller and leaner than the usual big band, 13tet emphasizes the players as soloists and personalities, with arrangements rooted in the big band tradition but brought into the 21st Century. It’s hard-driving jazz that explores interesting textures and meters- as long as it swings! The current lineup are veterans of the bands of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, James Moody, Christian McBride, the ...

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Music Industry

Jazz and Religion: The Church of John Coltrane

Jazz and Religion: The Church of John Coltrane

Source: All About Jazz


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Performance / Tour

The Sacred Music of Mary Lou Williams at the Church of St. Joseph of the Holy Family Easter Sunday - April 8, 2007

The Sacred Music of Mary Lou Williams at the Church of St. Joseph of the Holy Family Easter Sunday - April 8, 2007

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

The Sacred Music of Mary Lou Williams at The Church of St. Joseph of the Holy Family 405 West 125th St. at Morningside Ave. New York (Harlem), N.Y.

Mass at 10:00AM sharp Easter Sunday - April 8, 2007

Aaron J. Diehl - piano and musical director Etienne Charles - trumpet David Wong - bass Carmen Intorre - drums

The Choir of The Church of ...

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Obituary

Tony Scott Service Will Be 5PM Today (Rome Time) at the Church of the Artists

Tony Scott Service  Will Be 5PM Today (Rome Time) at the Church of the Artists

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

The clarinetist Tony Scott died on March 28th in Rome, Italy, at the age of 86. The cause was prostate cancer. He died at his home in Rome.

The memorial service will be 5pm tomorrow (Rome time) at the church of the artists. Then the body will be flown to Sicily, the family ancestral home (Scott's family name was Sciacca).

He had started playing the clarinet at the age of 12 and with 14 had founded his first quartet. While ...

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