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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 ...
Christian Pabst: Rhythm Riot
by Frank Housh
On April 4, 2025, Italian-based German pianist and composer Christian Pabst released Rhythm Riot, his sixth album. All songs are composed by Pabst and feature bassist André Nendza and drummer Erik Kooger, with whom he recorded Balbec (JazzSick Records, 2021). Rhythm Riot is a satisfying musical exploration from three rising contributors to an iconic ...
Kinan Azmeh: Live in Berlin
by Frank Housh
Clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh occupies a unique space in the musical world. He is grew up with Western classical music and trained at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus as well as Juilliard, where he began his studies one week before the 9/11 attacks. His expansive and eclectic body of work includes ...
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 ...
Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey From A Winter Stone
by Frank Housh
Since his debut in 2008 at age 26, Ambrose Akinmusire has created a sapient body of work featuring some of the most unique and sophisticated sounds in contemporary music. His new release, honey from a winter stone is a dazzling kaleidoscope of jazz, hip-hop, and chamber music, as well as a commentary on the ...
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. ...
