Results for "Peter Kenagy"

Peter Kenagy

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

By Dana Sandler

Label: Fractamodi Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Dear Pavel; The Butterfly; Dear Franta; Home/The Old House; The Garden; Dear Alena; I’d Like to Go Alone/Ani Ma’amin; Tears; Dear Anonymous; On a Sunny Evening; Birdsong/Butterfly Reprise.

The Very Singular Mr. Ran Blake

by Duncan Heining
January 23, 2020

There have been few American composers and musicians, with the ability to encapsulate their country's music in all its racial and ethnic complexity. We might perhaps point to Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Ives and perhaps, in their own distaff ways, Harry Partch and Steve Reich. In jazz, their number is fewer still--Duke Ellington and George ...

Little Machines

By Peter Kenagy

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Nile; Dog Story; AYG; Little Machines; Hungary; Disappearing Man; Whisps

Peter Kenagy: Little Machines

by AAJ Staff
July 5, 2005

Peter Kenagy is a young trumpeter and composer, born in Seattle and based in Boston, who already has a lot to say on his first album. His original compositions explore areas that most jazz musicians don't seem drawn to. His tunes, like the relaxed “Nile," are spacious, letting in air and light. He also looks at ...

Peter Kenagy: Little Machines

by John Kelman
February 16, 2005

The moniker of the Fresh Sound New Talent label couldn't be better chosen. With an unerring instinct for identifying emergent talent with greater potential, the label has provided the first forum for now-established artists like pianist Brad Mehldau, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, and piano trio The Bad Plus. While it may be too soon to be definitively ...