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Swiss composer and music educator (1875-1931)
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2021-02-10 21:58:52
Violinist Mark Feldman has been a staple of the downtown New York jazz scene since the 90s, notably in his long-running duo with pianist Sylvie Courvoisier. Like innumerable artists during the lockdown, he’s put out a solo album, Sounding Point, which hasn’t hit the web yet. It’s incisive, purposeful and sometimes haunting, everything the artists […]
2020-11-20 20:46:14
Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier’s music can be dark and pensive, but a puckish sense of humor often pops up unexpectedly. Free Hoops, her latest album with one of the few consistent, long-running trios in jazz, featuring Drew Gress on bass and Kenny Wollesen on drums, is one of her most menacing yet also one of her […]
2015-03-01 21:01:18
[…] Ben Holmes (trumpet), Jim Guttmann (bass,) and Dave Licht (drums. at Barbes followed by ten-piece funky Balkan brass/Ellington jazz monsters Slavic Soul Party at Barbes 3/10, 7:30 PM a slightly smaller subset of the explosive Ayn Sof big band playing epic klezmer jazz tunes with Greg Wall, Jordan Hirsch, Zev Zions, Brian Glassman, and Aaron Alexander among others at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, 30 W 68th St., $15. 3/10-15 elegantly melodic pianist Sylvie Courvoisier plays a weeklong stand at the Stone with sets at 8 and 10 PM, $15. Choice pick: opening night, the first set a duo with violinist Mark Feldman playing stuff from John Zorn’s Book of Angels, the second a duet with Marc Ribot! 3/10, 8 PM pyrotechnic pianist Kathleen Supove plays space-specific new works for piano and soundtrack by Joan La Barbara, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Randall Woolf, and Marti Epstein at Roulette 3/10, 8 […]
2014-09-01 21:55:56
[…] Bombino at Brooklyn Bowl, $12. 9/7, 10 PM the incomparable, deviously lyrical alt-country legend Amy Allison at 2A 9/8, 8 PM accordionist/chanteuse Kamala Sankaram’s hot surfy Bollywood project,Bombay Rickey play the album release party for their new one at Joe’s Pub, $12 adv tix req. 9/8, 8 PM catchy, purist original bluegrass with Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys at the Rockwood. 9/8, 8:30 PM richly tuneful unpredictable classically-tinged jazz improvisation: the Sylvie Courvoisier Trio with Kenny Wollesen and Drew Gress at Roulette, $20/$15 stud. 9/8, 10:30 PM art-rocker/indie classical violinist Christina Courtin at the big room at the Rockwood 9/9, 7 PM intense, edgily tuneful Texas trumpeter Stan Killia n leads his quartet at 55 Bar 9/9 bassist Ben Wolfe leads a tuneful quartet with Orrin Evans – piano; Donald Edwards – drums; Stacy Dillard – tenor saxophone, 7:30/9:30 PM at the Jazz Standard, $20. 9/9, […]
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