Topic: Steve Coleman

It's shaping up to be a year of changes for saxophonist Ravi Coltrane. For starters, Coltrane, who opened yesterday and performs through Saturday...

Irene leaves travelers stranded

All five New York-area airports - including Kennedy and LaGuardia - stopped allowing planes to land at noon Saturday and departures were at a...

Naked man arrested for swimming near JFK airport fuel depot

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A naked man swimming in the waters near the main aviation fuel storage area at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport was arrested and charged with trespassing, the authority that runs the airport said on Wednesday.Patrolling ...
A more-ridiculous-than-usual amount of music -- 60 bands playing sets at five Greenwich Village venues -- will be played at the 2011 NYC Winter...
Before rounding up what other folks really liked this year, I'll reprint (from my longer post that named 40 or so laudable CDs) the list of my...
I've just sent in my submissions to this year's Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll. My picks were culled from the extended lists below, which together...

Steve Coleman

Steve Coleman is an American alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and producer. On September 20, 1956, Steve Coleman was born in Chicago, Illinois. Coleman is the founder of M-Base, an acronym for macro-basic array of structured extemporizations.According to the saxophonist, M-Base is ...

Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson (born December 4, 1955) is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi . Cassandra Wilson; Jazz Diva Follows Sound of Her Roots, John Leland , New York Times, March 2002Like many jazz musicians Wilson?s formal musical education ...

Strike closes New York/New Jersey port terminals

NEW YORK (Reuters) - All cargo terminals were closed at the Port of New York and New Jersey on Tuesday, due to a strike by members of the International Longshoremen's Association union, a spokesman said."It's a picket line put up ...

Music, MIDI and Sax

Here we are in the next Millennium! The music industry continues to evolve and musicians are being afforded more opportunities to create music. What's definitely here to stay is the marriage of traditional acoustic music and computers. Whether you're performing ...