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Marvin "Hannibal" Peterson and the Sunrise Orchestra: Children of the Fire
by Aaron Rogers
Trumpet and koto player Marvin “Hannibal" Peterson has led a reclusive career in jazz since the early '70s, when he first started making albums. A free jazz player in the style of Don Cherry with the metallic tone of Freddie Hubbard, Peterson is widely unknown even to the most diehard jazz fans. His low profile is ...
Brooklyn Sax Quartet: Far Side of Here
by Aaron Rogers
Avant-garde jazz groups can sometimes sound too remote or off-the-wall, even to a hard-core jazz fan. When free jazz musicians play without bass, piano or drums, the music can have a tendency to lose its sense of structure when it comes to harmony and rhythm. Although the Brooklyn Sax Quartet can be labeled as a free ...
Bill O'Connell: Latin Jazz Fantasy
by Aaron Rogers
Latin Jazz Fantasy is the second event of its kind by pianist Bill O'Connell on Random Chance Records. O'Connell is no stranger to playing in Afro-Caribbean style; he played with Latin jazz greats like saxophonist Gato Barbieri and percussionist Mongo Santamaria. O'Connell's Latin Jazz Fantasy features ten original compositions by O'Connell that glisten with Latin rhythms ...
Benny Golson: Terminal 1
by Aaron Rogers
Benny Golson's Terminal 1 is a commemorative album to Steven Spielberg's latest film, The Terminal, in which Golson plays himself: a legendary jazz saxophonist from whom Tom Hanks' character is trying to get an autograph. On Terminal 1, 75-year-old hard-bopper Golson looks and plays just as fresh as he did in his younger days with Art ...
Marian McPartland and Lionel Hampton: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Lionel Hampton
by Aaron Rogers
For over twenty years, jazz pianist Marian McPartland has hosted NPR's Piano Jazz, a radio broadcast that showcases some of the most important artists in jazz history. Piano Jazz not only presents McPartland's piano playing along with the music of jazz greats like Bill Evans and Dizzy Gillespie, but it also provides a forum for her ...
Wayne Shorter: Adam's Apple
by Aaron Rogers
By the beginning of '66, Wayne Shorter had already made jazz history twice: forging gospel-drenched hard bop with Art Blakey from '59 to '64 and helping to create the metaphysical artistry of the Miles Davis quintet during the mid-'60s. So it should come as no suprise that Adam's Apple , which was recorded in February of ...
Sticks and Stones: Shed Grace
by Aaron Rogers
When hearing the Chicago-based saxophone-bass-drum trio Sticks and Stones, it helps to remember what their style is steeped in. Sticks and Stones reminds jazz fans that its openly improvised format, sound, and playing is rooted both in Ornette Coleman's famous 1959 engagements at the Five Spot in New York where the iconoclastic saxophonist turned the bebop ...
Michel Petrucciani: So What: The Best of Michel Petrucciani
by Aaron Rogers
Bill Evans wrote in the liner notes for his Grammy Award-winning album Alone that “to understand music most profoundly one only has to be listening well." If you listen to an Evans album and follow it with So What, you will understand well that Evans' music lived in the small but profound hands of Michel Petrucciani. ...
Chick Corea: The Complete "IS" Sessions
by Aaron Rogers
Although the recording of Chick Corea's The Complete “IS" Sessions took place in May of 1969, the rhythm section, which consists of bassist Dave Holland, drummer Jack DeJohnette, and legendary Latin/hard-bop/fusion pianist Chick Corea, found its footing seven months earlier in the electric tone poems of the In A Silent Way sessions under Miles Davis's leadership.
Miles Davis: The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions
by Aaron Rogers
In March of 1969, Miles Davis told Washington Post journalist Hollie West, “I have to change. It's like a curse." Not only did Davis live up to his Picasso-like evolution in 1969 with the power of a “curse," but his music held the jazz and rock worlds with a spell-binding voodoo. Nowhere in ...
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