So long, RVA!
So much for a summer slow down. We saw tons of great things happening in June, like a Brian Jones group playing original music to Tom & Jerry cartoons. Fugazi’s Joe Lally came to town for a gig with Glows in the Dark, and GITD spent the rest of the busy month on tour. We […]
An album review, a venue feature, and a look back at a Glowing Realm 10 Questions piece led up to the Matana Roberts show at the end of the month, of which we snapped some photos. That afternoon, UseTheVastness and Yellow Grass played a gig in the small space of Black Hand Coffee, eliciting the […]
Ombak announced the release of their new album, Framing the Void, which we reviewed. From Brooklyn came Adam Caine Trio for a gig at The Camel, where their avant-garde set was gently interrupted by a newly married couple’s request for a love song to dance to. It was all at once sweet, romantic, and kind […]
In the wake of RVAjazzfest, we tried to give away Maceo Parker tickets, and then Toad’s Place closed down a week before the concert. We began experimenting with Twitter album reviews, and Ploug/Pettersen/Badenhorst was the first subject whether they liked it or not. No BS! Brass launched their “With Our Powers Combined” series with Gull […]
February was the month of the first RVAjazzfest. We extensively previewed the three local bands — Glows in the Dark, Brian Jones’s Boots of Leather, and Fight the Big Bull — and the featured artist, Steven Bernstein. We got some nice press in Style Weekly, MashUp, and here on RVANews by Matt White. Photos in […]
RVAJazz is 2 years old! For nostalgia’s sake, between now and the onset of 2010, we’ll be reviewing the year’s most exciting events as chronicled on RVAJazz. We did something similar for 2008, so if you’re feeling especially curious, check that one out too. The year began strong! Vijay Iyer Trio visited the Modlin Center […]
If your goal is to complete your Dave Douglas album collection before his visit to VCU in April, now’s the time to check out his label’s website. Greenleaf Music is choosing a different album every day to sell for the discounted rate of $7 for the CD, $6 for the FLACs, and $5 for the MP3s. […]
It was two years ago today that I launched the RVAJazz blog and wrote the very first post about Fight the Big Bull’s new relationship with Clean Feed Records. What better time than now to thank each and every reader that has visited the website! You have given the blog a purpose and have helped […]
Jason Arce is back in Richmond for the weekend and is playing at Bogart’s tomorrow night. The tenor/alto/soprano saxophonist’s band will include Marcus Tenney (tenor sax or trumpet, or both), Alan Parker (guitar), Andrew Randazzo (bass), and Devonne Harris (drums). Jason — who graduated from VCU in ’07 — is currently up at NYU getting a graduate degree […]
Tomorrow night, drummer Brian Jones’s monthly series returns to The Camel. This time, it features his New Trio, which includes JC Kuhl on tenor saxophone and Alan Parker on guitar, and his duo with experimental musician and keyboardist Marty McCavitt. The first round of the series — which has so far celebrated the releases of […]
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