Jazz Articles about Josh Myers

Josh Myers: Walls Red

by Mark F. Turner
February 7, 2008

The debut recording, Walls Red, by Brooklyn bassist Josh Myers, affirms that while modern jazz covers a wide spectrum of influences, it's always a positive when young artists develop their own ideas. Like many striving in this challenging and diverse music environment, Myers' playing is panoptic: dabbling in nearly a dozen projects--mainstream, experimental and even Klezmer-rock, as well as regular gigs with notables such as drummer Gerald Cleaver. These influences become irrelevant because the recording resonates with Myers' ...