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The Emmet Cohen Trio At Buffalo’s 'Art Of Jazz'
by Frank Housh
The Emmet Cohen TrioBuffalo AKG Art Museum Auditorium Art of Jazz Buffalo, NYMay 19, 2025 The Emmet Cohen Trio closed the 2025 “Art of Jazz" Season with a high-energy performance featuring dynamic interplay and a dive into jazz history. In 2019 Emmet Cohen received the American Pianists Association's ...
Vieux Farka Toure at Kleinhans Music Hall
by Frank Housh
Vieux Farka Toure Kleinhans Music HallBuffalo, NYApril 27, 2025 A spinning top occasionally wobbles. Our spinning earth does the same thing: it's called the “Chandler Wobble." Because of the Chandler Wobble, monsoon rains in the Sahara appear then disappear every 21,000 years. This alternating cycle of “Green Sahara" and Sahara Desert ...
Dena DeRose at The Buffalo AKG Art Museum
by Frank Housh
Dena DeRose Trio The Buffalo AKG Art Museum Auditorium Buffalo, NY February 2, 2025 Binghamton native Dena DeRose returned to upstate New York February 2, 2025 to kick off the 2025 “Art of Jazz" series at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. She and her trio heated up the newly renovated Lipsey ...
Cecile McLorin Salvant at Slee Hall
by Frank Housh
Cecile McLorin Salvant Slee Hall at University of Buffalo Buffalo, NY February 9, 2024 The word is “trobairitz;" it refers to female troubadours of the Middle Ages who performed some of Western music's first secular songs (and the first composed by women) in the area south of the Loire Valley, what ...
Mingus Dynasty Septet at Slee Hall
by Frank Housh
Mingus Dynasty Septet Slee Hall at University of Buffalo Buffalo, NY November 1, 2024 The Mingus Dynasty Septet performed on Friday, November 1, 2024, at UB's Slee Hall (SUNY Buffalo) as part of its Visiting Artist Series. The Septet's personnel and the concert's set list are at the bottom of this ...
Don't Like Jazz? Give Me Six Minutes And Forty-Two Seconds
by Frank Housh
Don't like jazz? I think I understand. For many, jazz seems hyper-intellectual and inaccessible and, to be fair, it too often is. At its best, however, jazz represents the heart of the creative instinct; it began by taking popular songs and changing their harmony and melodies. This “variations on a theme" is nothing new. ...
Stephen Guerra: No Balan???o do Choro?-?Samba
by Katchie Cartwright
Guitarist Stephen Guerra was finishing up his undergraduate degree in engineering when he became enchanted with Brazilian music. It was the guitar and song magic of Baden Powell with its mysterious metric ambiguity. Upon graduating, he took a job in personal wealth management, teaching himself to play guitar and read music on the side. After a ...
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Vanessa Vacanti
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Vanessa Vacanti is a fresh new face on the jazz scene. A recent grad of SUNY Fredonia, (BFA/Musical Theatre) her vocal talents are quickly becoming recognized by musician’s and audiences alike. She has recently become local to Buffalo, NY, but previously has worked in the Syracuse area. She has been mainstay in the Syracuse scene with performances at Syracuse Jazz Fest, Fayetteville Jazz Fest with Ronnie Leigh, Fulton Jazz Fest, Lake Ontario Wine and Jazz Fest, the Jazz By The Lake series in Oswego as well as frequent night club performances throughout Central New York. She frequently works with The Jazz Mafia Trio, which is her first-call backing band
2022: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
Current events impacted the jazz world in significant ways throughout 2022. In its third year, the coronavirus pandemic continued to lurk in some settings, while others recovered in robust fashion. Russia's war on Ukraine was felt by musicians and triggered an outpouring of support for its victims. Initiatives to ensure greater equity in jazz advanced. The ...
Take Five with Emilio Palame
by AAJ Staff
Meet Emilio Palame Emilio Palame is a seasoned jazz pianist, composer/arranger, producer/director and actor residing in Los Angeles. Instruments: Piano, composer/arranger Teachers and/or influences? Self taught at first then studied with Buffalo, NY's premier jazz piano teacher Russ Messina—went on to SUNY Fredonia where I ran the Jazz Ensemble program for four ...
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