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Focus: British Music Since WWII – January 29, 2013

Posted on February 11, 2013 by parker

Focus: British Music Since WWII –  Paul Hall –  January 29, 2013 Juilliard School’s annual Focus Festival, put together by Joel Sachs, is a standby for me;  performance sketches are mostly of students.  I could get to only one concert … Continue reading →

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Jordi Savall & Juilliard 415 – January 26, 2013

Posted on February 11, 2013 by parker

Jordy Savall & Juilliard 415  – Alice Tully Hall  –  January 26, 2013 Savall is the hero of the early music movement – rescuing, retrieving, and putting again to life the written music of pre-Bach times.  Many of these pieces … Continue reading →

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Sketchcrawl 38 – January 19, 2013

Posted on January 21, 2013 by parker

Sketchcrawl 38  –  January 19, 2013 The NYC Sketchcrawlers (about a dozen) covered 42nd Street from Port Authority Bus Terminal to Grand Central Station.  I got no further than Times Square.  I broke out the paints for the International Grocery … Continue reading →

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Andrew Cyrille – January 17, 2013

Posted on January 21, 2013 by parker

Andrew Cyrille  – David Rubenstein Atrium  – January 17,  2013 The complete name of this group is “Andrew Cyrille’s 21st Century Big Band Unlimited”, which doesn’t fit on a single line here,  so we have the triumph of form over … Continue reading →

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Jeremy Pelt Quintet – January 13, 2013

Posted on January 21, 2013 by parker

Jeremy Pelt Quintet  –  Greenwich Library  –  January 13, 2013 Greenwich Library continues to dominate the interregnum with this final concert of their season.  Front row seat makes it hard to fit entire entities on the page.

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Bill Charlap Trio – November 18, 2012

Posted on November 26, 2012 by parker

Bill Charlap Trio  –  Greenwich Library Cole Auditorium  –  November 18, 2012 Charlap arrived with his full sympatico trio-mates,  the two unrelated Washingtons.  I would have to look it up (actually I just did), but believe that Kenny was on … Continue reading →

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Yosvany Terry Quintet – November 17, 2012

Posted on November 26, 2012 by parker

Yosvany Terry Quintet  –  El Museo del Barrio  –  November 17, 2012 Terry has been on my to-see list for a while, and even an ill-fated trip to Harlem for a to-be-cancelled gig.  So finally – and it turns out … Continue reading →

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Jazz and Colors – November 10, 2012

Posted on November 15, 2012 by parker

Jazz and Colors  –  Central Park   –  November 10, 2012 Jazz and Colors was a great concept serving as a continuation of Christo & Jeanne-Claude’s “The Gates”.  It involved 30 different bands located throughout the Central Park, all playing the … Continue reading →

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Christian McBride & Inside Straight – October 27, 2012

Posted on November 4, 2012 by parker

Christian McBride & Inside Straight  –  Vassar College  –  October 27, 2012 McBride has assembled the cream of the crop for this combo, all serious players.   He has a semi-standup-comic narration to go along with it (he has done a … Continue reading →

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George Coleman – October 16, 2012

Posted on November 4, 2012 by parker

George Coleman  –  Juilliard School  –  October 16, 2012 The Juilliard jazz program is training grounds for, and pipeline to, New York’s (and the country’s) jazz scene.  They occasionally snag a player visiting town for some gigs with the Juilliard … Continue reading →

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