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Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival has grown from a one-day street fair to 10 days of activities that encompass club gigs as well as the signature afternoon multi-stage event in the South End. Here are some highlights. Full details are at beantownjazz.org.
KURT ROSENWINKEL & OJM | September 15 at Berklee Performance Center | The pathbreaking young guitarist and composer unveils his big-band project with the Portuguese Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos (OJM) following the September 7 release of
Our Secret World (Wommusic).
THE BAD PLUS | September 17 at Berklee Performance Center | The irreverent piano trio release Never Stop (E1 Music) on September 14. It’s their first album of all-original material.
DANILO PÉREZ TRIO AND FRIENDS | September 23-24 at Scullers Jazz Club | Pérez and gang celebrate the release of Providencia over two nights at Scullers.
OUTDOOR FESTIVAL | September 25 at Columbus Ave between Mass Ave and Burke St | A noon–6 pm street festival on three stages with Greg Osby & Mark Turner, Julian Lage Trio, Nona Hendryx (!), Victor Mendoza, Grace Kelly, the Wild Magnolias, the Boogaloo Swamis, Al Kooper, and more.
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- Teachers and students
Several of this fall's promising jazz performances are clustered around the week of October 18. That marks the 40th-anniversary celebration of the jazz-studies program at New England Conservatory, which, created by Gunther Schuller, established NEC as one of the international twin beacons of jazz education in Boston along with Berklee College of Music.
- Live and on record
To call Darius Jones’s music avant-garde seems almost beside the point. In its way, it’s older than old — it’s ancient.
- Best in their field
The jazz scene continues to struggle — along with everyone else — through hard times.
- Sonny, Pat, and all the cats
The primo jazz event of the spring will be SONNY ROLLINS 's concert at Symphony Hall on April 18 (bso.org). The great master saxophonist and peerless improviser often hits town in April, and this time it's to kick off his 80th-birthday tour. Whew.
- Pardon the interruption
Maybe it was when saxophonist Kelly Roberge, instrument in hand, leapt off the Cambridge YMCA Theatre stage in the middle of a performance by the Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra and fled the auditorium — as if in extreme gastro-intestinal distress.
- Secret master
Scratch below the surface of any number of hard-playing jazz musicians these days and you hear a common refrain: "I hardly ever listen to jazz."
- Fall Dance Preview: Kick up your heels!
Fall dance starts at the very beginning, which is a very good place to start, with Doug Elkins and Friends’ hilarious send-up of The Sound of Music , and continues straight through to the brink of the holiday season with an authentic Gypsy “Ole!” from a pair of flamenco cousins.
- Fall Jazz Preview: Blindfold test
A search for this fall’s must-see jazz revealed a lot of overlapping personnel — Jim Hobbs, Allan Chase, Joe Morris, Taylor Ho Bynum. Hey, you wanted to know what’s good , right?
- One night, one jazz trifecta
True, there aren't enough paying gigs for musicians, but the live music is out there — and last Wednesday, I had to scramble to make three promising shows.
- Chucho, Mike, and Lina
Anyone who has doubts about the musical supremacy of Chucho Valdés — or wants an introduction to it — need only listen to "Danzón," the second track from the new Chucho's Steps.
- A band, a part
My lingering qualms with Devendra Banhart's new album have very little to do with its substance and more to do with its consistency, a quality that throughout What Will We Be? seems present only in its glaring absence.
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