VoiceHornsBass Live at Clemente Soto Velez (Arts for Art) 2014-06-30
Band: Fay Victor, Will Connell, Vincent Chancey, Ken Filiano Videographer: Don Mount
Cisco Bradley
Nonoko Yoshido, Brian Chase, and Ron Anderson Live at the Shooting Gallery 2014-06-07
Band: Nonoko Yoshido, Brian Chase, Ron Anderson Videographer: Don Mount
People Live at Death by Audio 2014-07-02
Band: People (Mary Halvorson, Kyle Forester, Kevin Shea) Videographer: Don Mount
breath TRIPLE sea TRIO birds Live at Clemente Soto Velez (Arts for Art) 2014-06-30
Band: breath TRIPLE sea TRIO birds (Anias Maivel, Areni Agbabian, Daniel Carter, Claire deBrunner, Daro Behroozi) Videographer: Don Mount
Frikativ Quartet Live at Clemente Soto Velez (Arts for Art) 2014-06-30
Band: Frikativ Quartet (Sarah Bernstein, Scott Tixier, Mat Maneri, Rubin Kodheli) Videographer: Don Mount
VAX, New York, and the Death of Art: A Review
On a weekly, and often daily, basis, I have conversations with friends, email exchanges, or Facebook interactions about the decline and inevitable death of the New York new jazz scene. Many of the concerns people raise are very real: fewer opportunities to play live (and fewer that pay well), eroding audience numbers, venues closing, gentrification
Playlist for Week of 28 June 2014
William Parker – Wood Flute Songs: Anthology Live 2006-2012 [discs 1-2 of 8: William Parker Quartet at Yoshi’s, Oakland, California, sets 1-2] (AUM Fidelity, 2013) Michael Attias – Renku in Coimbra (Clean Feed, 2009) Kali Z. Fasteau – Piano Rapture: New Works on Piano (Flying Note, 2014) Max Johnson – The Prisoner (No Business, 2014)
Interview: Tony Malaby Discusses His New Album, Somos Agua
Saxophonist Tony Malaby is one of the standouts of a generation of jazz musicians who got going in New York in the mid-1990s. A bold and fiery player, Malaby has made an impact on the New York scene over the past twenty years. Tony and I had the opportunity to discuss his new record, Somos
Interview with Nate Wooley, Part II: Early Years in New York City
This interview is the second in a three-part series with one of New York’s most exciting trumpet players, Nate Wooley. In this portion, he talks about how he got established in New York, his involvement in lowercase (EAI) music, and how he developed a number of bands that came to have a big impact on
This Week on Jazz Right Now / June 30, 2014
Reviews Max Johnson’s The Prisoner (No Business, 2014) Interviews Interview with Nate Wooley, Part I: Origins Dave Rempis Percussion Quartet Celebrates 10th Anniversary: Interview Videos Tatsuya Nakatani Project with Pascal Niggenkemper and Sean Ali Live at Clemente Soto Velez (Arts for Art) FIVE (Yoni Kretzmer, Steve Swell, Thomas Heberer, Max Johnson, Chad Taylor) Live at