Results for "Phil Stewart"

Phil Stewart

Grant Stewart: Rise and Shine

by C. Andrew Hovan
January 30, 2023

Over the past twenty-five years, the jazz world has seen its share of stylistic ups and downs. Often changing with chameleon-like character, the music's popularity has come and gone based on the trends of the time and the success of musicians capable of connecting with broader audiences beyond the established cognoscenti. In looking back at the ...

Fraser MacPherson: From The Pen Of...

by Jack Bowers
December 11, 2022

The late tenor saxophonist Fraser MacPherson was well-known in western Canada and elsewhere for his brilliance—but as player, not a writer. In fact, according to MacPherson's son Guy, who wrote the excellent liner notes to From the Pen of..., his father wrote barely a dozen or so original compositions, almost all of which are included on ...

Rise and Shine

By Grant Stewart

Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Gnid, Rise and Shine, Welcome to the Club, Minor Mishap, Like This, I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry, Off Minor, You, My Reverie, Hallucinations.

Melodious Drum

By Phil Stewart

Label: Cellar Live
Released: 2018
Track listing: Manteca; Dance of the Infidels; Far Sure; The Sumo; Erratic; This Is All I Ask; Apache; Eronel; The Doctor Is In; Livin’ with Hobson.

Salvo Losappio: Long Story Short

by Jack Bowers
May 26, 2018

Although Long Story Short is an entirely appropriate title for Italian-born tenor saxophonist Salvo Losappio's debut CD as leader, as its playing time is a lean LP-like thirty-eight minutes, Rush Job might have been an even better one. Losappio's name and face adorn the front cover of the album, which names his four sidemen but does ...

Six on Cellar Live

by C. Michael Bailey
March 19, 2018

Cory Weeds' record label Cellar Live has become a welcome home to straight-ahead mainstream jazz in the same way that Arbors Records has been the beacon for traditional jazz and swing. Think Norman Granz's Pablo label tele-transported deep into the 21st Century. Six recent releases illuminate Cellar Live's importance to jazz as a whole and to ...

Introducing Phil Stewart: Melodious Drum

by Jack Bowers
February 21, 2018

Cellar Live Records continues its run of admirable mainstream albums with Melodious Drum, Canadian-born and New York City-based Phil Stewart's debut as leader of his own groups, which range from trio to sextet. It's an interesting title, as Stewart's drums may be congenial but aren't melodious in the manner of, say, Jeff Hamilton, Ed Thigpen, Shelly ...

Grant Stewart Trio: Roll On

by Jack Bowers
July 25, 2017

Add Grant Stewart's name to the growing list of tenor saxophonists who are gaining broad approval by reanimating exemplary yet by and large overlooked songs from the Great American Songbook and elsewhere and lending them a fresh coat of paint that not only accentuates their timeless charm but does so while swinging in the grandest jazz ...

Big Jazz on SmallsLIVE

by Bob Kenselaar
April 23, 2013

Since its launch in 2010, the SmallsLIVE record label has been offering a substantial sampling of the outstanding jazz talent consistently featured at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City's Greenwich Village. Musicians who appear on the label range from the great veterans Harold Mabern and Jimmy Cobb to contemporary players at the top of their ...