Jason Marsalis’s TO headlining debut
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Jason Marsalis’s TO headlining debut
Toronto Star – Jan 10, 2008
"There was always a lot of opportunity in New Orleans for me. Plus I was already travelling a lot anyway so I was never interested in living somewhere else" he says. "I’m going to be honest and this is probably controversial but someone needs to say it: Really New York being the big time as far as jazz music is concerned is actually over because the major labels aren’t signing jazz and a lot of the jazz legends that were in New York unfortunately have died off now. "It’s a great city and there’s a lot of music but it’s not what it used to be. Ironically enough though New Orleans is a better learning town. The community is a little smaller and it’s easier to get around and there’s other music that you can learn like a lot of the traditional jazz music R&B Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music. Those kinds of things go on here.
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Philadelphia citypaper.net – Jan 10, 2008
Landscape becomes portrait with the vocalist front and center the instrumentalists a supporting blur in the background. The New Jersey-based Antfarm Quartet runs wholly counter to that concept. If jazz music and vocal jazz can be looked at as completely different genres — and for the most part they are — then Antfarm falls squarely into the former category despite the fact that most of their repertoire consists of vocal tunes.
Australia Day at the Quarry
NEWS.com.au – Jan 10, 2008
We can’t give too much away but it’s going to be amusing and entertaining. Just because we’re featuring jazz music doesn’t mean you won’t come over all patriotic by the end of the evening! And you’re welcome to slip your thongs back on and do a little swing dancing on stage if you feel so inclined. Libby will give you your cue. Address: Quarry Amphitheatre Waldron Drive (left off Oceanic Drive) City Beach Price: $35. 00 Bookings – Phone: BOCS 9484 1133 Timing – Gates open: 6.
Robert Pinsky – Charles Simic – Jazz – Poetry – Review – New York…
New York Times – Jan 10, 2008
And with “The Green Piano” he filtered personal history through the language of rhapsody. Though no exercise in nostalgia it harnessed the power of memory. And it echoed an earlier observation by Mr. Pinsky: that jazz and poetry are “two profound arts that have to do profoundly with time.