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Wide-Eyed Lounge Cats: The Watermelon Sessions
by Kyle Simpler
Originally developing from rock music, jam bands have become a unique genre of music. Considering the improvised nature of the music, it is hardly surprising that many jazz artists have become major players in the jam base. Groups such as Snarky Puppy and Medeski, Martin and Wood have embraced the genre while keeping true to their ...
Bonzo Squad: Pachyderm
by Kyle Simpler
The Chicago-based quartet Bonzo Squad describes their music as comfort in chaos." While this description might give an impression of free-form experimentation, it is not the case. The chaos aspect of their sound comes from a unique mixture of structure and improvisation, and for these guys, the comfort definitely outweighs the chaos. With Pachyderm, the group ...
DouBt: Mercy Pity Peace & Love
by Dave Wayne
Quick, name a jazz-rock trio fronted by a dazzling virtuoso keyboardist and a prodigiously talented electric guitarist that plays in a hyper-aggressive no-holds-barred style which combines edgy free improv with a heavy '70s rock sound. If you answered the original Tony Williams' Lifetime" you aren't alone. One current trio actively probing the outer reaches of jazz ...
Josh Roseman's Joshua 3 at Rockwood Music Hall, September 25 at Midnight
Josh Roseman's Joshua 3 Saturday, September 25, 2010 At Midnight Free Admission Rockwood Music Hall (Second Stage) 196 Allen Street New York, New York 10002 Trombonist and composer Josh Roseman brings his Joshua 3" group to Rockwood Music Hall for the first time on Saturday, September 25 at midnight. He will ...
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense DVD & VOD Release Due May 11
Pre-order it now at shop.allaboutjazz.com BUY IT AT shop.allaboutjazz.com Theatrical Length Documentary Explores Contemporary Jazz Luminaries Including Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Esperanza Spalding & Bill Frisell [Icons] depicts jazz as a living, breathing and ever-evolving musical art form, and ...
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - Four-Part Documentary
Four-Part Jazz Documentary Explores Contemporary Jazz Luminaries Including Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Jason Moran, The Bad Plus The Documentary Channel Exclusive Premiere Of All Four Episodes Begins April 20 Episode One Premieres April 15 at Jazz At Lincoln Center Paradigm Studio partners with Don Q Rum in association with Rums of Puerto Rico to present Icons ...
Medeski Martin and Wood: Zaebos: Book of Angels, Vol. 11
by Graham L. Flanagan
Just take a moment to absorb this disc's exhausting title; yeah... this probably isn't what you should pick up after drawing the name of your Erskine Hawkins-loving grandpa when figuring out whose Secret Santa you're going to be; that is, unless said grandpa has a penchant for atonal, acid-tinged klezmer-jazz. Hey, you never know. To the ...
Medeski Martin and Wood Live: Spontaneous Combustication
by Doug Collette
Medeski Martin & Wood Higher Ground South Burlington, Vermont February 21, 2008 Having launched their own record label, Indirecto, so auspiciously in 2007 with a reunion session with John Scofield, Out Louder, Medeski Martin and Wood are taking the next logical step of independent artists in charge of their ...