Tonight, Japanese percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani will perform a show of improvised music upstairs at the Blue Nile as part of the Open Ears Series with Rob Cambre and Donald Miller. Nakatani employs a series of gongs, bowls and self-made instruments that are bowed or played in uncommon ways. Here he is in a solo performance [...]
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Bill Summers: Jazz Fest Focus
May 1, 2010 – 12:31 am
Bill Summers’ place in the jazz firmament was set the moment he tooted on a beer bottle tuned to C in the introduction to Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man” in 1973. The strange and haunting melody imitated the music of the Ba-Benzélé African pygmies, a long way from Detroit, where he grew up. Then again, that [...]
YouTube du Jour: Badal Roy, Tabla Master
March 19, 2010 – 12:16 pm
Badal Roy, a tabla player famous for his playing with some of the great jazz musicians of the ’70s, including Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, is at Snug Harbor tonight at 8 p.m. Here’s part of a performance in New York last summer.
