Venezuela: EDWARD, ANTONIO, RODNER Y NENE EN CONCIERTO

Saturday, September 3 at 9:00pm - September 4 at 12:00am
Location Pizzeria Taima, C.C. Plaza La Boyera, PB, detras del Rey David, Caracas Created By Antonio Mazzei, Cindy Kovacs
For Musicos y Toques Venezolanos
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POR PRIMERA VEZ podran disfrutar de este increible TRABUCO musical:

EDWARD RAMIREZ
ANTONIO MAZZEI
RODNER PADILLA
NENE QUINTERO

En el lugar mas acogedor, con la mejor atencion y las mejores pizzas de la ciudad.

RESERVACIONES TEL. 0212-8615762

Art Hirahara - Noble Path (Posi-Tone Records 2011)

Review

From the relaxed, sly sense of phrasing on the engaging opener, an original called I m OK that resonates with the old-school appeal of a Tin Pan Alley chestnut, Noble Path sounds like the work of a seasoned veteran or at least a precocious talent capable of an experienced pro s taste and grace. At 39, pianist-composer Art Hirahara is somewhere in between: He s been around but is only beginning to make his mark on New York s jazz scene. Judging by his impressive debut as a leader, he s already made significant inroads. With Yoshi Waki on bass and Dan Aran on drums, Hirahara conjures up pleasant conversations on originals like Stood Down, the waltz-time Ebb and Flow and the briskly swinging title track. The trio also turns in classy interpretations of Dizzy Gillespie s Con Alma, Duke Ellington s Isfahan and Cole Porter s Ev ry Time We Say Goodbye. --Bill Milkowski - Jazz Times

Review

Art Hirahara s new debut CD Noble Path is full of well crafted stories told in a contemporary style that borrows more from the mainstream than the modern but don t let that fool you - this is an exciting new trio with depth and width in their vision and execution. Hirahara builds tension and excitement with two hands, the left locking into full fingered voicings and the right exploring multiple runs and percussive accents that never seem to lack imagination, surprise or momentum. The opening Hirahara original, the easy going I m OK, could have come from the pen of Tadd Dameron and indeed there are four underplayed standards here rendered with great maturity and ease of expression beyond his years, Con Alma, Ellington s beautiful Isfahan, All or Nothing At All and Porter s Ev ry Time We Say Goodbye. But it is the Hirahara originals that intrigue the most with an unpredictable turn of harmony and a gradual layering of harmonic and melodic intensity those story telling hands have a lot to say. Yoshi Waki on bass and Dan Aran on drums are Hirahara s equals and for the trio s next release I want to hear many more solos especially from Waki who, with Aran, is top flight. Listen carefully and you can here how he converses but occasionally I d like to hear him make a speech! On the brilliantly constructed Noble Path his playing is superb. It sounds like this grouping has played often and after a while when you disengage your ears directly from the three music elements and focus on the shared musical thrust you feel the ebb and flow (one of Art s best originals in this collection is called Ebb and Flow) of a music that although erring on the mainstream is played by three souls who have mastered the craft of musical communication both within their trio and with the listener. From the excellent Posi-Tone label - highly recommend. --Paul Zetter - Trioriot

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New releases showcase the common language of jazz

Pianist Kenny Werner and saxophonist Ernie Krivda stand as two wonderful examples of just how big the jazz tent can be.

Werner, one of the most compositionally advanced modernists on the scene, also happens to possess great technical prowess. Still, a lot of his work is introspective, even ethereal and certainly provocative. Krivda, meanwhile, gives credence to the old adage that “everyone is from somewhere.” This has never been truer than in the case of this Cleveland-based talent who, at age 66, is one of the city’s favorite sons.

Krivda, who has spent the majority of his life in his hometown, is an expressive, extraverted player. Stylistically, he is a child of bebop — of the hard-driving, bluesy, swingin’ and sometimes frenetic pace of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach and other musicians whose sound changed jazz forever, immediately following World War II.

Yet there is little doubt that were Krivda and Werner to be in the same room — or on the same bandstand — they would have one heck of a musical conversation. Jazz-wise, they speak, if not the same language, certainly one with serious overlap. This is one of the beauties of jazz, a point underscored in each man’s latest release.

Werner leads a dynamic and powerful quintet captured live at the Blue Note in New York. “Balloons” (Half Note), recorded in April 2010, was released this spring. Werner’s compositions are expansive and substantive, each one providing a voyage that houses a multiplicity of adventures. “Balloons” opens with the exquisite “Sada,” a free-floating modal fountain of cascading notes that is gentle as can be. It is the first of only four selections that constitute this more than 54-minute CD.

This star-studded unit includes four consummate professionals, bandleaders in their own right. Randy Brecker holds down the trumpet chair and shares the front line with saxophonist David Sanchez who, while still relatively young at 43, has become one of his generation’s important voices. His solo on “Sada” is simply Coltranesque yet his own. The rest of the rhythm section includes bassist John Patitucci, who blends second-to-none technique with soul, and drummer Antonio Sanchez, who is finally receiving recognition on his own having scored a bevy of primo gigs with the likes of Pat Metheny and, of late, as a member of Gary Burton’s “New Quartet.” The four Werner episodes that constitute “Balloons” cover a lot of territory. The title track is a nearly 18-minute ballad, while the date’s closing piece, “Class Dismissed,” shines a much more abstract light on Werner. Ultimately, though, it’s the caliber of playing and performance that carries the day.

The same can be said of Krivda’s “Blues For Pekar,” the title serving as an homage to the late Harvey Pekar, another of Cleveland’s cultural icons. Pekar, a Renaissance man of sorts, created “American Splendor,” a series of autobiographical comic books dating from the mid-1970s to 2008. Pekar, whose work had a sizable cult following, also wrote jazz-related criticism and articles for a variety of national publications. Krivda and Pekar were longtime friends.

Krivda’s latest effort would be characterized as “straight-ahead,” smacks of bebop’s constant energy and it’s great. On the one hand, it’s a throwback effort with wailing solos from an earlier era; on the other, the music sounds up-to-the-minute and right on time.

Krivda’s work here cuts across three generations and showcases the constantly evolving connection between Detroit and Cleveland. During the course of jazz history, there has been a great exchange between the cities, with players regularly crisscrossing the 170 miles between them. Krivda calls his rhythm section — pianist Claude Black, bassist Marion Hayden and drummer Renell Gonsalves, son of famed Ellington tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves — “The Detroit Connection.” Also heard on this disc is a pair of up-and-coming trumpeters: Dominick Farinacci and Sean Jones. Both are from northeast Ohio.

Throughout, Krivda’s tenor saxophone tone draws upon everyone from Ben Webster, Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins to titans such as Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt and keystones Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. Yet, Krivda, like Werner, brings originality to his band — whether interpreting Gordon’s “Fried Bananas,” Rollins’ “Valse Hot” or laying out his own pieces such as the title track and “One for Willie.”

Plans for a Sept. 18 memorial celebration of Lyle Harris are under way. Billed as a “Jam Session in Memory of Lyle Harris,” the event takes place at Mojo’s, 1013 Park Ave. The evening, which will feature an array of area talent, including one-time members of the late guitarist’s jazz quartet, begins at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Harris, 77, died on July 2 because of complications from a stroke. He moved from Columbia to Springfield many years ago after having become not only a fixture on the local music scene here, but also decidedly one of the region’s most influential musicians. More details about the event will follow as they become available.

 Jon Poses 

Júlio Resende Trio - You Taste Like a Song (Clean Feed 2011)

You Taste Like a Song / Júlio Resende Trio 
Personnel: Bruno Pedroso (d), João Custódio (b), Joel Silva (d), Júlio Resende (p), Ole Morten Vágan (b),


In his third appearance in the Clean Feed catalogue, Portuguese pianist and composer Júlio Resende confirms his love for the song format – "You Taste Like a Song" is a compromise between poetry and guts, combining beatiful, lyrical melodies, groovy rhythms and red hot improvisations. After "Da Alma" and "Assim Falava Jazzatustra" there's no more doubts about the consistency, and the exquisite personality, of his musical world, represented here not only by Júlio's compositions, but also by his own versions of two very special songs, "Airbag", a pearl created by the pop-rock band Radiohead, and Thelonious Monk's "Straight No Chaser", considered today a noble jazz standard.These choices are of symbolic importance, considering the musician's commitment to bring back that music idiom we call jazz to the centre of popular music. In doing so, proposing us a project which is, simultaneously, accessible and inteligent, agreable and defying. With something new to offer: this time, Júlio Resende fronts his trio, with the phenomenal Norwegian contrabassist Ole Morten Vagan and portuguese wonder drummer Joel Silva. Bruno Pedroso (drums on 3), and João Custódio (double bass on 8) also contribute to the record. And yes, you can expect to find here adapted extensions of some of the aspects introduced by Bill Evans with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian, and by Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette but Resende also contribute with his outrageous melodic sense as part of the expansion of 
the piano trio language.


Clean Feed

Terell Stafford-THIS SIDE OF STRAYHORN ( MaxJazz Records 2011)

THIS SIDE OF STRAYHORN
New release available on 
MaxJazz Records
with
Terell Stafford, Tim Warfield, Bruce Barth, Peter Washington, and Dana Hall
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Billy Strayhorn is widely considered to be one of the greatest composers of our time, and his three-decade-long collaboration with Duke Ellington furnished the American songbook with a number of timeless classics. Trumpeter Terell Stafford's sense of melody and uniquely expressive sound make him ideal for Strayhorn's repertoire. Produced by Grammy-winning bassist and composer, John Clayton, "This Side of Strayhorn" offers a refreshing and unique interpretation of a number of Strayhorn's compositions. Stafford enlists his working quintet featuring saxophonist Tim Warfield Jr., pianist and arranger Bruce Barth, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Dana Hall.


Terell Stafford

Wisconsin: KETTLE MORAINE JAZZ FESTIVAL 2011

Wisconsin's finest music festival, the Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival features international jazz musicians and vocalists in an outdoor setting under a spacious tent surrounded by rolling hills and rustling trees.


Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival
Sept. 9, 2011 4:30 p.m. - Sept. 10, 2011, 11:00 p.m. at Riverside Park- 800 Kilbourn Ave., West Bend
Since its inception over a decade ago, the KMJF has attracted throngs of enthusiastic fans and an array of internationally-recognized performers to the banks of the upper Milwaukee River in West Bend.
This year's festival is expected to draw more than 5,500 jazz lovers from all over the Midwest with performances from Johannes Linstead, Eric Darius, Basia, Nabori, Steve Cole, Peter White, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and other jazz artists.
Performances take place under a spacious tent before appreciative music lovers, many of whom arrive early to stake out prime locations in the first-come, first-seated festival setup. Patrons are allowed to bring chairs and blankets, which can be placed on the outer perimeter of the rows of festival chairs beneath the tent and at the rear of the tent.
Most of the performers sign CDs after their performances. Our experts advise getting in line while they are playing their last song to avoid the line. You can bring your own CD to have autographed or purchase one for about $20.
Patrons are not allowed to carry in food or beverages, but plenty of tempting international cuisine is available on-site. In addition to music, the festival also features an arts marketplace and interactive sponsor exhibits. There is also a festival store that features logo merchandise such as polo shirts, denim shirts. T-shirts, jackets, blankets and more.
The festival runs from 4:30 to 11:30 p.m. Friday and 1 to 11:30 p.m. Saturday.
At the gate, a one-day ticket costs $75 and a two-day pass costs $125. Discounts are available for advance purchases made either by phone at (877) 271-6903 or by mail (print a ticket order form from kmjazz.com and send it with a check, mail order or credit card number to West Bend Sunrise Rotary Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 1087, West Bend, WI 53095). Tickets are also available at Zielger Company offices in Milwaukee, West Bend, Mequon or Madison.
Proceeds from the event benefit area charitable organizations through the West Bend Sunrise Rotary Foundation.
Parking is free, with lots at The Gehl Company and inside the County Grounds on Highway 33.

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Romania: GARBIS DEDEIAN TRIO @ Mystic Tree

Mystic Tree

Str. Popa Soare nr.7 [ colt cu Mantuleasa nr.8 ]

Bucharest

CONCERT DE JAZZ - GARBIS DEDEIAN TRIO

Thursday, September 1 at 9:00pm - September 2 at 12:00am

GARBIS DEDEIAN - tenor sax

CAPRIEL DEDEIAN - guitar

CATALINA BETA - vocal