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New York Standards Quartet

New York Standards Quartet: Heaven Steps to Seven

by Maurizio Zerbo
June 20, 2019

Come il titolo sottointende questo è il settimo CD delNew York Standards Quartet, in cui è entrato a far parte l'eccellente contrabbassista Ugonna Okegwo. La rivisitazione degli standard jazzistici qui proposta raggiunge buoni livelli, ma non tali da far gridare al miracolo. Il procedimento della destrutturazione degli evergreen è oggi ampiamente noto e ben documentato dalla ...

Heaven Steps to Seven

By New York Standards Quartet

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2018
Track listing: Tonight; Cheryl; Peace; If I Should Lose You; Every Time We Say Goodbye; I Love You; I'll Keep Loving You; Eye of the Hurricane.

Kirk Knuffke, Ingrid Laubrock and Jerry Bergonzi

by Bob Osborne
December 20, 2018

This week we look at the variety that can be found in the World of Jazz as exemplified by the amazing new collaboration with operatic baritone Steven Herring on the new album from Kirk Knuffke, which we contrasted with the ground breaking avant-garde work of featured artist Ingrid Laubrock and with the traditional stylings of another ...

Cheryl

October 30, 2018

Album: Heaven Steps to Seven
By New York Standards Quartet
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2018
Duration: 8:39

New York Standards Quartet: Heaven Steps To Seven

by Roger Farbey
September 23, 2018

The three constant principals in this remarkable quartet are joined for this album by NY-resident Ugonna Okegwo on double bass. The quartet has been in existence for over a decade now and their first album was recorded in 2007 and released in 2008. The punningly titled Heaven Steps To Seven is the quartet's seventh album to ...

Michael Janisch: The Whirlwind, Paradigm Shift and London's Label of the Moment

by Phil Barnes
November 11, 2015

However you look at it Michael Janisch is an extraordinarily driven, highly motivated, success story. Not only has he been the founder, owner and force behind London's wonderful Whirlwind Recordings for the last five years, but he has also just released one of 2015's finest albums in the adventurous 2CD set Paradigm Shift. It's no coincidence ...

New York Standards Quartet: Unstandard

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 6, 2012

Unstandard è il secondo album del New York Standards Quartet, fondato dal sassofonista Tim Armacost nell'autunno del 2006. La formazione annovera quattro solidi ed affermati musicisti come David Berkman al piano, Yosuke Inoue al contrabbasso e Gene Jackson alla batteria. Ancora standards? Sì, e non ci stuferemo mai di ascoltarli. D'altronde è questo uno dei lati ...

Unstandard

By David Berkman

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: How High The Moon; Polka Beamlet; All The Things You Are; Polka Beamlet #2; Stablemates; But Beautiful; Lunar; Interplay; Two Meetings; The Ballet Girl Stirs (by Starlight); After Thought; Summer Nights; Polka Beamlet #3.

New York Standards Quartet: Unstandard

by Larry Taylor
December 12, 2011

It's a pleasure when a group of great jazz players take American standards and reshape them with their own unique stamp. This happens on New York Standards Quartet's Unstandard, where the musical gambit--the direction these musicians take the originals--is often surprising. Pianist David Berkman leads the way, handling arrangements and contributing originals, all the ...