Two nights ago, bassist Ben Williams, winner of the 2009 Thelonious Monk Competition sold out The Harlem Stage Gatehouse on the heels of the release of his debut album, State of Art(Concord Jazz).
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This is Ben Williams Week!
Thursday, July 7th, 2011Bassist Kermit Driscoll Releases His Long Anticipated Debut Album on Nineteen-Eight Records, ‘Reveille’, April 5, 2011
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Featuring guitarist Bill Frisell, drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and pianist Kris Davis
One thing’s certain: it was definitely worth the wait. Kermit Driscoll has been a remarkable bassist and inspired sideman for the last 30 years, but he’s never released an album of his own. Reveille, a program of kaleidoscopic funk, experimental abstractions, and fetching intricacies, rectifies that. It is an achievement that lets the world know Driscoll now wears another hat as well: that of a cagey bandleader.
Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio Releases “Les Nuages En France” on Mode Records; NYC Release Party May 1st
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011Guitarist Marco Cappelli Releases Les Nuages En France,
With His Acoustic Trio Featuring Ken Filiano & Satoshi Takeishi
On Mode Records’ Avant Series
With Music Inspired By The Crime Novels of Fred Vargas
New York City CD Release Party
May 1, 2011 – 7:30 PM
at DROM
85 Avenue A (between 5th & 6th Streets)
New York, NY 10019
(212) 777-1157
Joe Fiedler Trio’s Sacred Chrome Orb Out Now; NYC & East Coast Tour Dates
Friday, April 8th, 2011Versatile Trombonist JOE FIEDLER Releases SACRED CHROME ORB, March 29 on Yellow Sound Records
Tour Dates Around NYC & East Coast Following CD Release
Anyone who’s ever puzzled over the oddly altar-like mirrored globes that serve as the centerpiece of many a suburban garden will instantly be in on the joke that provided the title for trombonist Joe Fiedler’s Sacred Chrome Orb (Yellow Sound Records, release date March 29). While Fiedler attaches no particular significance to the name, it does represent a delight in the incongruous, a refreshingly skewed perspective, and an off-kilter sense of humor, all qualities that pervade the music of his unique, intensely expressive trio.
Steven Lugerner Releases Double Album, Plays Brooklyn & Bay Area Shows
Monday, April 4th, 2011Lugerner Joined By Myra Melford, Darren Johnston & Matt Wilson
On These Are The Words, Based on Kabbalist Numerical System
Lugerner’s Septet With His New York Peers Featured on Narratives
A Bay Area transplant to the NYC scene, multi-reedist Steven Lugerner releases two albums that display the full spectrum of his compositional abilities. A student of such luminaries as Fred Hersch, Ralph Alessi, Jamie Baum, Jane Ira Bloom and fellow multi-instrumentalist Charles Pillow, Narratives features Lugerner’s working septet, while on These Are The Words he is joined by trumpeter Darren Johnston, pianist Myra Melford, and drummer Matt Wilson.
Drummer Mike Reed Completes People, Places & Things Trilogy With “Stories & Negotiations” (482 Music) Feat. Jeb Bishop, Art Hoyle, Julian Priester, Ira Sullivan
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010Mike Reed’s People, Places & Things Latest Recording, Stories and Negotiations,
featuring Art Hoyle, Julian Priester & Ira Sullivan
Stories & Negotiations is Third Installment
In A Trilogy of Recordings Devoted to the Remarkable Period of 1954-1960 Chicago Jazz,
And Its Relation to Chicago Jazz Today
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Catalog #482-1070
Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures Tours East Coast; Yeyi Duo Tours Midwest
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Composer & Master Percussionist Adam Rudolph
Tours in March & April With Moving Pictures Quintet and Octet
(Boston, New Haven, Teaneck, Philadelphia, New York City)
NOTE NEW NYC VENUE, CITY WINERY
Yeyi Duet With Multi-Instrumentalist Ralph Jones Tours Midwest
(Champaign-Urbana, Chicago, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Oberlin)
This March and April, master percussionist Adam Rudolph will tour the East Coast with a brand new edition of his Moving Pictures Quintet and Octet. Rudolph originally founded the group in the late 1980s as a vehicle for his explorations of what would later come to be known as “world music,” a field he has been exploring since his first recordings in the 1970s.
Allison Miller’s BOOM TIC BOOM Tours East Coast March 21-27, 2010
Friday, March 5th, 2010ALLISON MILLER’S BOOM TIC BOOM
CD RELEASE TOUR (MARCH 21-27, 2010)
The example that Allison Miller sets on BOOM TIC BOOM (sic) is that of a powerhouse drummer with an unerring sense of swing and a moving melodicism; an inventive composer with a gift for memorable tunes that leave ample space for bright improvisations; and a bandleader who ably marries these pieces with the right collaborators to breathe life into them. Here, those collaborators are pianist/composer Myra Melford; longtime collaborator Todd Sickafoose on bass; and guest violinist Jenny Scheinman.
The Claudia Quintet Releases 5th Album, “Royal Toast” on Cuneiform Records May 18, 2010
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Composer/Drummer John Hollenbeck Continues Prolific Recording Period
With Fifth Claudia Quintet Album, Royal Toast,
Due May 18, 2010 on Cuneiform Records
cover art for Royal Toast
On their fifth CD, Royal Toast, The Claudia Quintet raise a glass in salute to their regal muse with a set of new music fit for a king – albeit one with more refined tastes and open mind than your average monarch.
Drummer Allison Miller Releases 2nd Album, BOOM TIC BOOM March 23rd
Monday, January 18th, 2010Drummer Allison Miller Releases Second Solo Leader CD, BOOM TIC BOOM, Performing Music Composed For and Inspired by Important Women in the Drummer/Composer’s Life
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Album Features: Myra Melford, Todd Sickafoose & Special Guest Jenny Scheinman
“Some of my closest friends are extremely smart and powerful women,” Allison Miller says. “I can’t stress enough the importance of this community. There’ve been several women who’ve really helped me out in my career. I hope that I do the same for other women in the musical community.
