Over his six-decade career, bassist Ron Carter has been part of some of the greatest bands in jazz history. He’s played with Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Eric Dolphy, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Bill Evans, and many more. He has received just about every honor awarded in his field. But when he is inducted […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: “Love is a Pendulum”
Joe Locke “Love is a Pendulum” Motéma Music joelocke.com When I heard that hard-driving vibraphonist Joe Locke’s new album, “Love is a Pendulum,” was based on a poem of the same name by Barbara Sfraga, I was a bit skeptical. Then I read the poem. It’s a beautiful work, dealing with the elusiveness of love, […]
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JAZZ | Jeff Beal: “An Evening of Film and Film Music”
Since graduating from the Eastman School of Music in 1985, Jeff Beal has written evocative music for television shows like “House of Cards,” “Monk,” and “Ugly Betty,” and for films including “Pollock” and “Blackfish.” In “An Evening of Film and Film Music,” three-time Emmy Award-winner Beal and others will conduct The Empire Film Music Ensemble, […]
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JAZZ | Eastman Jazz Café with Joe Martin
Over the past two decades, bassist Joe Martin has earned a place among the top side-men in New York, enhancing performances and recordings by greats like Art Farmer, Brad Mehldau, Mark Turner, Maria Schneider, and many more. But Martin is also a formidable bandleader with several recordings under his belt showcasing his own challenging compositions. […]
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Unchained melodies
At the age of 11, Mary Halvorson was growing in Boston and studying violin. It was the early 1990’s but Halvorson and her friends were enamored of music from the late-1960’s, groups like The Allman Brothers Band and the Grateful Dead. When she heard Jimi Hendrix that was it. She put down her violin. “I […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: “Out & About”
Andy Galore “Out & About” Motema Music Andygalore.com The jazz world has no shortage of cerebral and experimental albums to ponder, but sometimes you just want a great groove and catchy melodies. “Out & About,” the new CD by veteran electric bassist Andy Galore delivers brilliantly on both counts. And it does so with a […]
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JAZZ | Benny Golson
It’s not often you get to see a bona fide jazz legend. Saxophonist Benny Golson fits the profile. A member of jazz’s greatest generation, Golson played with Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, and Benny Goodman. If that’s not enough, he wrote “I Remember Clifford,” “Whisper Not,” “Killer Joe,” “Blues March,” “Stablemates,” and many more […]
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Jazz | Omar Tamez & Angie Sanchez
Jazz aficionados are very much aware the Latin jazz that entered the American music scene by way of Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo in the late 1940’s. Since then, as the whole world has embraced the music, many more hybrids from south of the border have emerged. In a concert titled “Jazz meets Mexico and […]
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I Scene It: Third Coast Percussion at Kilbourn Hall
Five blocks of wood, four thick dowels, and a mallet. If that sounds like the ingredients for a woodworking project from your 8th-grade shop class, you were not at Kilbourn Hall Tuesday night with Third Coast Percussion. The four members of the group — David Skidmore, Peter Martin, Robert Dillon, and Sean Conners — were […]
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JAZZ | Eastman Jazz Lab Band with John Nugent
When the Eastman Jazz Lab Band takes the stage at Kilbourn Hall Thursday, the top-notch student players will be joined by a special guest. John Nugent, who is best-known as a Producer and the Artistic Director of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, is also a monster sax player. He’ll join the band for several […]
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JAZZ | Maria Zemantauski and Brian Melick
If ever there was a male-dominated genre of music, it’s flamenco guitar. But don’t tell that to Maria Zemantauski. When it comes to rhythmic strumming, breathtaking legato runs and clear, ringing tone, she’s as good as it gets. And, in addition to playing the traditional repertoire, Zemantauski is moving the genre forward with her own […]
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JAZZ | Denzal Sinclaire
Canadian jazz singer Denzal Sinclaire has plenty of style of his own when he takes on a standard. But this weekend he’ll use his soulful baritone to pay tribute to one of the greatest song stylists of the 20th century, Nat King Cole. Jeff Tyzik will conduct the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and to make sure […]
