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Simon Phillips Protocol: Somewhere In The Middle of The Ocean
Posted Jan 9, 2020
About three songs in to his opening (Monday) night set at The Iridium, Simon Phillips, in his first talking break to the audience, made the comment in his unquestionably British accent that his friends in the UK have forgotten that he is actually English while most Americans are well aware that he wasn’t exactly born in the Bronx.
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Saturday at Birdland: Kurt Elling, Sara Gazarek, Veronica Swift & Emmet Cohen
Posted Jan 9, 2020
Pharoah Sanders Quartet Live at the Iridium
Updated Jan 3, 2020
Whenever I experience the music of Pharoah Sanders - and I’ve been going to see him at The Iridium for over 15 years at least - I’m always reminded that many of the preconceptions that we have regarding the evolution of jazz are completely wrong. I have it in my head that, in the modern era at least, that every new school of jazz was more abstract and less audience-friendly that that which preceded it.
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New Year's at Birdland: Marilyn Maye, The Birdland Big Band with Nicole Zuraitis, and The Billy Stritch Trio.
Posted Jan 2, 2020