Jazz Articles about Cliff Korman

Cliff Korman: Bossas and Ballads

by Katchie Cartwright
March 21, 2024

Pianist-composer Cliff Korman lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, where he serves on the faculty of the Instituto Villa Lobos at the Federal University. A New Yorker with a jazz degree from City College of New York, he trained under Roland Hanna, Ron Carter and Kenny Barron. His “musical journey," as he put it, began years earlier at the innovative Creative Music Studio in Woodstock founded by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman. There, he encountered Brazilian clarinetist ...

Thiago de Mello & Dexter Payne: Another Feeling

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 18, 2007

Have you ever walked alone through a quiet beautiful woodland and stepped into an open space full of nothing but warm and growing brightness, and felt like nature was a cathedral and you were seated in its front row? Another Feeling sounds just like that: completely, naturally, immaculate and beautiful.

Dexter Payne on clarinet and alto saxophone creates this Feeling with writer/ arranger Thiago de Mello on acoustic piano, guitar and “organic percussion, handmade instruments personally crafted from ...