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February Live Music Reviews

I saw a number of friends’ bands over the last couple of weeks and thought I’d give them all reviews and plugs. Spanglish Fly, Feb 19, Rose, Brooklyn — I’ve known the leader of Spanglish Fly, trumpeter Jonathan Goldman, for about eight years as he played on the corporate softball team I coached. He led [...]

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Playing with Buildings and Armory Shows

Stairs, shadows at SFMOMA One of the must-do fun things to do in NYC this summer is visit the Battery Maritime Building where David Byrne has installed an organ that plays the different pieces of an old building. New York Times has a write up with video today. This reminded me of an episode: My [...]

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Music Is a Fuzzy Cathedral

Riverside Church – fuzzy mode I lost my camera a couple days ago but I’ll post some rejects. Eighth Blackbird performed at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall last night. Playing a piece written for them called “Double Sextet” — hence written for 12 musicians — 8bb actually play against a recording of themselves playing the other [...]

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