This old dive in Harlem has been shuttered for about as long as it had been open. Yet Minton’s Playhouse will always be known as the cradle of bebop, where the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker jammed into the night. Continue reading
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Tagged Harlem, Lenox Avenue, Lenox Lounge, Minton, Minton's Playhouse, New York City, Thelonious Monk, Time Warner
South Harlem’s Smoke Jazz and Supper Club-Lounge will pay homage to two of the greatest jazz musicians of all time: Saxophonist Pepper Adams and all-around jazz giant Thelonious Monk. Continue reading
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Tagged Adams, Ben Riley, Ben Riley Quartet, Coleman Hawkins, Gary Smulyan, greatest jazz musicians, Harry Carney, It's Monk's Time, Jazz, Mike LeDonne Quartet, Monk tribute, Pepper Adams, Pepper Adams Festival, Smoke Jazz & Supper Club-Lounge, Thelonious Monk, video of harlem, Wardell Gray
New York-based guitarist Greg Skaff s third ZOHO organ trio release, following the successful, equally Harlem-themed Ellington Boulevard (2004) and East Harlem Skyline (2009). Continue reading
Posted in HArlem Jazz, HArlem music, Music, Music Review
Tagged 116th & Park, All About Jazz, ballads, blues, boogaloos, burners, Duke Ellington, East Harlem Skyline (2009), Ellington Boulevard, George Benson, Grant Green, Greg Skaff, organist Pat Bianchi, Pat Bianchi, Pat Martino, Ralph Peterson Jr., Thelonious Monk, Wes Montgomery
Charlie Parker cut his teeth on Harlem jazz, in the 1940′s Parker played in after-hours clubs in Harlem like Clark Monroe’s Uptown House and Minton’s Playhouse, on top of that he played with musicians such as Thelonious Monk, guitarist Charlie Christian, and drummer Kenny Clarke. Continue reading
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Tagged Bowery Poetry Club, Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, City Parks Foundation, Clark Monroe's Uptown House, Contemporary Music, Ginny’s Supper Club, Jazz Foundation of America, Kenny Clarke, Minton's Playhouse, New York City, Revive Music School and The New School for Jazz, The Harlem School of the Arts, The Jazz Foundation of America, Thelonious Monk
The fourth-floor space on East 126th Street does not look anything like a museum. Flourescent-lighted and largely bare, the room appears to be an office but for a weathered grand piano that sits in the middle of the floor and a few faded photographs that adorn the walls. Continue reading
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (born May 17, 1942), who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. Continue reading
The Independent reports that s missing link between Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor, Harlem pianist Herbie Nichols wrote odd, utterly distinctive music that the jazz trad has never assimilated.
Russian virtuoso Simon Nabatov – who came to NYC to study in 1979 – plays eight of Nichols’ tunes, with the avowed aim of surprising himself by not pre-determining where the openings are headed. The result is marvellously jangly, madly syncopated vamping where the bones of the originals show through. Continue reading
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Tagged cecil taylor, Harlem music, Herbie Nichols, Simon Nabatov, Thelonious Monk
“He’s so committed to the moment and its infinite potential of possibilities.”
In the forthcoming concert series built around him — “Cecil Taylor: A Celebration of the Maestro,” presented May 8, 9 and 17 at the Harlem Stage in Harlem. Continue reading
They weren’t saying anything about it at her swellegant party Saturday night, but the word is Clive Davis and Aretha Franklin are teaming up again. Continue reading
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