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Charlie Parker Jazz Festival 2012
Part of the reason I never made it into last Sunday's Afropunk Fest was that I first went to check out the 20th edition of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival This Weekend
Another festival back this year after last year's Irene-related armaggeddon is the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, which expands to three nights this year in honor of its 20th anniversary. Things
MoeTar at Spectrum
by Laura Wasson Oakland-based MoeTar’s Sunday performance at the new LES venue Spectrum perfectly illustrated the highs and lows of the current DIY scene. Pros: Soaring, beautiful songs, which felt intimate and vital. Cons:
American Beatbox Championships at Le Poisson Rouge
by Sky Disco Rizumik on the Mic against Heaven Awestruck, as I arrived at Le Poisson Rouge for the American Beatbox Championships on Sunday, I found it packed with earlybird
Yeasayer’s Show at Music Hall of Williamsburg Streaming Online
The Bowery Presents continues its series of live-concert streams tonight with Yeasayer's sold-out show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Fans can tune in here to watch the show starting at 10pm tonight, after
Slam Donahue at Soho House
by Laura Wasson It isn’t often you get to hear dirty pop rock at an exceptionally posh Manhattan hot spot, but Slam Donahue's Wednesday night performance at Soho House melded the two seemingly disparate
Newport Jazz Festival 2012: Sunday Recap
As Sunday's lineup at Newport was even more stacked than Saturday, the temporal conflicts of the festival became all-too-clear. I was faced with a hard triple booking: Maria Schneider Orchestra,