Results for "Wayne Krantz"

Wayne Krantz

Krantz was born in Corvallis, Oregon. He released his first album, Signals, in 1990, sporting an array of recognized jazz musicians such as Dennis Chambers, Don Alias, Anthony Jackson, and others. In 1992, he formed a trio with bassist Lincoln Goines and drummer Zach Danziger and recorded two albums with them, Long To Be Loose (1993) and 2 Drink Minimum (1995), a live album, and began playing regularly at the 55 Bar, a jazz club in New York City. In 1996, Krantz released an acoustic album with Leni Stern, dubbed Separate Cages. After playing with Steely Dan for several years, Krantz formed a new trio in 1997 with Tim Lefebvre on bass and Keith Carlock on drums; on June 28, 2007, he played his final regular Thursday night gig at New York's 55 Bar

Keep Swingin'

By Garry Dial

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Keep Swingin’; Great Awakening; Bat Cave; Pine Needles; Mummy’s Curse; Bernie Burnola; A- 440; Nero; Pluto Language; Pelaghia.

Dial and DeRosa: Keep Swingin'

by Jack Bowers
March 30, 2024

Keep Swingin', a splendid new album from pianist Garry Dial and drummer Rich DeRosa, features “the music of Charlie Banacos." Charlie who? you may ask. And the answer is, there are jazz educators, and then there was Charlie Banacos, whose talent and ingenuity in the classroom influenced and inspired countless jazz musicians for more than fifty ...

New Music from Lyle Workman, Streams, Scott Henderson and Jonathan Lundberg

by Len Davis
March 8, 2024

New music from Argentina with the band Streams, drummer Esteban Tonetti and guitarist Cesar Cirera. Lyle Workman with Murmuration, and more from Scott Henderson from Karnevel. From Sweden, bassist Simon Hovlund and drummer Jonathan Lundberg. Hungarian band Work Projekt and Spanish bassist Vincen Garcia. From Germany, drummer Anika Nilles and pianist Christian Frentzen, with guitarist Nir ...

Tal Wilkenfeld: Cosmic Joke

by Mike Jacobs
February 28, 2024

Though Australian bass wunderkind Tal Wilkenfeld may have indeed left jazz behind in favor of a more singer/songwriter-type rock approach, the music she put forth on her debut album Transformation (Goldelux Productions, 2007) still leaves an impression and a hope she will one day return to it. Superlative writing and playing from the then 20-year-old and ...

Leni Stern: The Twenty Year Audition

by Jim Worsley
February 1, 2024

Composer and musician Leni Stern has big news to share. She chose to do so quietly, with her usual cool, low-key and savoir-faire charm. In conversation with only my wife and I, recently at a jazz club in Los Angeles, she left us elated with the kind of news most other artists would be screaming from ...

Mantova Jazz Festival 2023

by Angelo Leonardi
November 16, 2023

Mantova Jazz Festival Mantova, vari luoghi 13.10-10.11.2023 Giunto alla 43ma edizione, il jazz festival di Mantova continua a dimostrarsi attento agli sviluppi del jazz contemporaneo con programmi autorevolmente attrattivi, che presentano il meglio del panorama internazionale senza dimenticare i talenti locali. L'idea di fondo che ha guidato ...

Dieter Ilg, Jane Getter, Marc Guillermont, David Hines

by Len Davis
August 25, 2023

German bassist Dieter Ilg from Summer Hill, guitarist Jane Getter with Adam Holzman, French guitarist Marc Guillermont, and bassist David Hines. Brazilian drummer Cuca Texiera from Mr Motaba, multi instrumentalist Sandro Haick with Pepe Cisneros, John McLaughlin from The Heart of Things-Live in Paris. We finish the first hour with Wayne Krantz, Keith Carlock and Tim ...

Wayne Krantz: One Of Two

by Mike Jacobs
August 9, 2023

While the whole of Wayne Krantz's Signals (Enja, 1990) is a bit too impressive a debut to be called prototypical, the origins for what would become the meat of the guitarist's stylistic identity lie in “One Of Two." Along with its companion piece (the cleverly-titled “Two Of Two"), this solo performance is arguably the first recorded ...

New Music From Aki Rissanen, Greg Spero, Jeremy Green And Athana

by Len Davis
July 23, 2023

New music from Finland: Aki Rissanen; from the US: Greg Spero; from Germany: Marriage Material; and from Canada: Jeremy Green. Plus, Athana with Alf Terje Hanna, Simon Phillips Protocol 2, 3 Crows with Chris Buck and Brett Garsed. Wayne Krantz, Japanese bassist Tetsuo Sakurai and Scott Henderson from Vibe Station. Playlist Aki Rissanen “Breezy" ...