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John S. Hall Of King Missile Strikes Sky Vault + Mike Visceglia, Gene Pritsker, Wayne Dumaine, Charles Coleman, Robert C. Ford & Carlinius M On March 29, 2024
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Robert C. Ford
On Friday March 29, 2024, at 7:30pm EST an intimate salon concert will be held at Sky Vault in the Financial District of New York City. Featured performers include poets Robert C. Ford, John S. Hall (King Missile) and Carli Munoz aka Carlinius M (Beach Boys, Eddie Gomez), accompanied by baritone Charles Coleman (Paavo Järvi, London Symphony Orchestra) and musicians Mike Visceglia (bass—Suzanne Vega, John Cale), Gene Pritsker (guitar—Matrix Resurrections, Joe Zawinul) and Wayne Dumaine (trumpet—New York Philharmonic, Prince). John ...
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Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation Feat. Lara St. John At Joe's Pub Saturday, March 9, 2024
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Robert C. Ford
On March 9th at 7pm (doors open 6pm), Joe's Pub and Composers Concordance present “Vivaldi's Hot House." This composition by Gene Pritsker (Matrix Resurrections, Joe Zawinul) is a starting point for this eclectic event with violin doyenne Lara St. John and Pritsker's ensemble Sound Liberation. The concert will feature a genre defying repertoire of music inspired by various composers from the past including Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Mozart, reinterpreted with jazz, metal, hip-hop, etc. Featured singers include soprano Adriana Valdes, baritone ...
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Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation At Nublu Sunday, February 25, 2024
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Robert C. Ford
On February 25, 2024 at 7:30pm, Composers Concordance presents The Sound Liberation Trio at Nublu (151 Avenue C, NYC). The trio is comprised of Gene Pritsker (Matrix Resurrections, Joe Zawinul) guitar, Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson, Brave New World) moog/synth and David Cossin (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) drums in a program of eclectic trio compositions. Joining the trio are trumpeter Franz Hackl (Outreach Music Festival) and trombonist Dick Griffin (Sun Ra's Arkestra) as well as poets Kelsea Brunner, Robert ...
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NYC Salon Concert With David Soldier, Jason Kao Hwang, Gene Pritsker & Robert C. Ford Set for Thursday January 11, 2023
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Robert C. Ford
On Thursday January 11, 2023, at 7:30pm EST a concert will be held at the Sky Vault in the Financial District of New York City. It will feature original music and poetry by world class performers in an intimate salon atmosphere. This event is private but a free livestream is available via the Ticket Link below to the Facebook event page. Featured performers include David Soldier violin/acoustic guitar, Jason Kao Hwang violin, Gene Pritsker electric guitar and Robert C. Ford ...
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Jazz Power Initiative Kicks Off 20th Anniversary Season With The Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam Series
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Janny Gonzalez
Jazz Power Initiative (JPI), an Inwood-based non-profit organization founded in 2003 with the mission of transforming lives through jazz music, arts education and performance, kicks off its 20th anniversary season with the acclaimed Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam series starting in October. Held twice-monthly, the Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam presents professional and emerging jazz artists with a different featured guest, offering audiences cross-cultural and multidisciplinary sets of new works and jazz standards; the audience is then invited to join in and ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gene Ammons
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Gene Ammons' birthday today!
Eugene “Jug" Ammons was a jazz tenor saxophonist, and the son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons. Ammons began to gain recognition when he went on the road with trumpeter King Kolax band in 1943, at the age of 18. He became a member of the Billy Eckstine and Woody Herman bands in 1944 and 1949 respectively, and then in 1950 formed a duet with Sonny Stitt. His later career was interrupted ...
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Interview: Gene DiNovi
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
After my post on pianist Gene DiNovi in March, I included my email with hopes that Gene or his family would reach out so I could interview him. Joe Lang put me in touch with his daughter, who put me in touch with his wife and Gene. We had a lovely Zoom conversation. Gene is a legend. He started recording in 1944, the same year Dizzy Gillespie pulled him out of the audience at the Spotlite Club on New York's ...
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Gene DiNovi, Today and Yesterday
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Gene DiNovi is a gorgeous jazz pianist. One of the early New York players in the mid-1940s who had figured out bop, DiNovi at 15 was pulled up to the bandstand at the Spotlite Club on 52nd Street by Dizzy Gillespie in 1944 to play bop behind him when his pianist went missing. Then Charlie Parker came out to join, and DiNovi held his own. DiNovi played in some amazing bands with exceptional musicians in the late 1940s and then ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gene Krupa
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Gene Krupa's birthday today!
Gene Krupa was easily one of the most colorful personalities of the big band era. Despite his outrageous stage persona, Krupa was a serious and disciplined musician whose vision changed the role of drummer forever and who helped standardize the jazz drum kit. Eugene Bertram Krupa was born in Chicago in 1909; he began learning the saxophone at age six but switched to drums five years later because they were the ...
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All About Jazz: New Features, General Improvements, and Bug Fixes
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz, which includes Jazz Near You, is a custom-developed software platform. It covers all the bases: content management, commerce, reader engagement... it even offers messaging capabilities. Though it can sometimes be a bear to maintain, it doesn't stop us from developing new sections—our polling and contest giveaway technology are terrific examples. This year, our improvements aren't on the scale of our poll or giveaway projects, but, collectively, they are significant. We wanted to document our new features, general ...
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