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Gabriela Machado: Equilibrando no Acupe
by Katchie Cartwright
Choro's popularity is on the rise. In the US, camps like Brazil Camp, Choro Northwest (aka Centrum Choro Workshop), Choro Camp New England and programs like Antonio Adolfo's Brazilian Music Workshop have attracted top artist-teachers, and eager students have brought the genre back to their local communities. Equilibrando no Acupe, a program of original choro compositions, ...
Savina Yannatou: Letting the Voice Go Where It Goes
by Katchie Cartwright
Savina Yannatou flies through vast reaches of space and time as she works, like the swallows and warblers who traverse the Sahara, stopping in jny: Greece on their annual pilgrimage to breeding grounds in the North, thousands of miles away. She is an artist “beyond category," to borrow Duke Ellington's phrase, whose programs and performances combine ...
Mafalda Minnozzi: Riofonic
by Katchie Cartwright
Singer Mafalda Minnozzi, who already had a solid recording career in Italy, went to Rio for a date in the late 1990s, stayed for a year, then decided to make it her home. Like many musical immigrants to that great city, she went to feel the salt air, to drink in the natural beauty and learn ...
Yuki Yamamura: View of 124
by Katchie Cartwright
Japanese bassist Yuki Yamamura and his trio mates, pianist Junichiro Mataga and drummer Yosuke Nagayama, cut their teeth in Japan, studying jazz from an early age with top Japanese player-teachers. They now live in New York, soaking up and contributing to the sounds of the great city, taking in the View of 124. 124th Street that ...
Gregory Alper: Palisades Apocalypse
by Katchie Cartwright
Rachel Carson served us with this warning in 1962: “We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. ...
Laura Dreyer: Dancing Through Time
by Katchie Cartwright
When something sparks her creativity, Laura Dreyer is the sort of person who jumps in with both feet and gets right down to business. A multi-hyphenate artist, saxophonist-flutist-composer-teacher-clinician, she has been serious about jazz since junior high school in jny: El Cerrito, California, across the bay from jny: San Francisco. “El Cerrito High had an award-winning--like ...
Amber Weekes: A Lady With a Song
by Katchie Cartwright
Irving Berlin wrote “Suppertime" (aka “Supper Time") for As Thousands Cheer (1933), a topical revue with several stars and many musical numbers. Ethel Waters introduced it, making history as the first African American woman to star on Broadway. Berlin wrote it specifically for Waters, who also sang his lighthearted “Heat Wave" in the show.
Kinan Azmeh: Berlin and Beyond
by Katchie Cartwright
Syrian-born jny: New York-based clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh and his CityBand released Live in Berlin on March 1, 2025 (recorded in 2021), dedicating the project to the people of Syria with this statement: “It moves me profoundly to be sharing this album with the world as my Syrian people are able to sing again after ...
Sivan Arbel: Oneness
by Katchie Cartwright
Sivan Arbel's compositional practice is alternately “nerdy," as the singer-composer describes it, and “stream of consciousness." In her studio, she labors meticulously over the nuts and bolts: rhythmic patterns, harmonic changes, melodic turns. Once the fundamental elements are in place, though, she sits at her piano and “squeezes the sponge," improvising words and music freely, reaching ...
Ranky Tanky with Ms. Lisa Fischer at the Carver
by Katchie Cartwright
Ranky Tanky with Ms. Lisa Fischer The Carver Community Cultural Center Jo Long Theatre jny:San Antonio January 17 Some shows stick with you. Not that anyone remembers every note, every word, every move, but an ineffable feeling lingers. Maya Angelou said it: “People will forget what you said, ...
