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John Gross

My Heart

By Jeff Johnson

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Linden Station; Leviathan; Companions; My Heart; Studio City; Watercolours

Linden Station

April 12, 2023

Album: My Heart
By Jeff Johnson
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 12:27

Jeff Johnson: My Heart

by Paul Rauch
April 10, 2023

What could possibly be so interesting about a thirty-two-year old session of first takes, recorded live to 2-track DAT by a quartet led by a Seattle- based bassist who is not exactly a household name? A quick answer would include superlatives such as “masterful," or “historic." A brief history of bassist and composer Jeff Johnson creates ...

Roberta Piket: Domestic Harmony: Piket Plays Mintz

by Dan McClenaghan
December 7, 2019

Pianist Roberta Piket was subbing in trombonist Joey Sellers' band in 1998 when she first met drummer Billy Mintz. In an All About Jazz interview, in 2011 with Victor Schermer, Piket said of that first encounter: “I noticed Billy, because the room was very dark, and yet he was wearing sunglasses; he seemed very strange. But ...

Ugly Beautiful

By Billy Mintz

Label: Thirteenth Note Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: CD1: Angels; Vietnam; Dit; Flight; Flight (Ballad); Cannonball; Smear; Dit (alternate take); Umba. CD2: Tumba; Dirge; Love And Beauty; Ugly Beautiful; Relent; Retribution; After Retribution; Cannonball (extended).

Billy Mintz: Ugly Beautiful

by Dan McClenaghan
March 6, 2017

Drummer/composer Billy Mintz has a long career of enhancing the music of others with his percussive artistry, everyone from saxophonist Lee Konitz to pianist Hal Galper, to clarinet master Perry Robinson. His own discography as a leader is small, with frequent revisitations of a handful of original compositions that are as distinctive and as worthy of ...

Take Five With Roberta Piket

by Roberta Piket
June 17, 2016

About Roberta Piket Born in Queens, New York, Roberta inherited a passion for music from both her parents. Her father was the Austrian composer Frederick Piket, who made significant contributions to both the musical liturgy of Reform Judaism and the concert hall with works performed by the New York Philharmonic under conductor Dimitri Metropolis. From her ...

Billy Mintz: Mintz Quartet

by Hrayr Attarian
October 1, 2013

What is remarkable about drummer's Billy Mintz's debut recording Mintz Quartet is his masterful versatility on his instrument. That is no surprise as Mintz, an in demand sideman, has played with a wide variety of musicians during his career ranging from disco diva Gloria Gaynor to saxophonists Lee Konitz and Charles Lloyd. A well-known educator and ...

Mintz Quartet: Mintz Quartet

by Dan McClenaghan
September 29, 2013

The jazz world is packed with dynamic drummers, and players who raise the job of timekeeping--and beyond--to a fine art. And then there are the supreme poets of the drum kit: The late Paul Motian, with his gentle orchestra of textures, colors, and diaphanous accents; Jack De Johnette, with his bustling undercurrents and rock steady grooves; ...