Most years, by this point in the year, the Rochester International Jazz Festival typically seems to be on autopilot. But the novel coronavirus is the wild card now, as the 19th annual, nine-day event unveiled its lineup Tuesday.
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Jazz Festival has new venues, club-pass changes
It’s only October, and there’s already big news in local jazz. The CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival announced major changes this morning for its 2019 event, including two new venues – Parcel 5 and Geva – and a more user-friendly club pass policy. The festival, which will run from June 21 to 29, will stage […]
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Album review: ‘Electric Miles’
Charles Pillow Large Ensemble “Electric Miles” MAMA Records charlespillow.com Over his long and varied career, Miles Davis recorded several seminal jazz orchestra albums in collaboration with the great arranger Gil Evans. Those disciplined affairs (“Sketches of Spain” and others) were in stark contrast to Miles’s wild, improvised, “electric” period that produced records like “Bitches Brew.” […]
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Jazz Festival Guide 2018
CITY Newspaper’s guide to the more than 320 shows at the 2018 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival
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Album review: ‘Triple Play’
Harold Danko “Triple Play” SteepleChase esm.rochester.edu/faculty/danko_harold The new album by pianist Harold Danko is best described as a musical adventure. The title, “Triple Play,” is especially appropriate because it’s a collective improvisation on the part of Danko and trio-mates Jay Anderson (bass) and Jeff Hirshfield (drums). As Danko explains in his liner notes, the three […]
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John Nyerges orchestrates a life in jazz
If you’ve seen pianist John Nyerges in concert over the last three decades, chances are you were in Kodak Hall at the Eastman Theatre. Nyerges has occupied the jazz piano chair in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s Pops concerts for 27 years. But when Nyerges takes the stage at Lovin’ Cup on Saturday, he’ll be playing […]
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Highsmith chronicles
Jimmie Highsmith Jr.’s ninth release, “Indigo Chronicles Chocolate Brown Eyes,” finds the Rochester saxophonist channeling interpretations of love, loss, and life through his instrument. In particular, through an alto sax he calls “Indigo.” “I was a nerdy kid with no friends and no girlfriends,” Highsmith says. “My saxophone was my first girlfriend. My saxophones are […]
