Jazz Articles about Evan Marien

About Evan Marien

Album Review

Tigran Hamasyan: The Call Within

Read "The Call Within" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 28, 2020

Tigran Hamasyan had already demonstrated that he's an excellent pianist: He won the Montreux Jazz Festival's piano competition in 2003. He was only seventeen when he released his first recording (World Passion, Nocturn) in 2005 and then he claimed top prize the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition the year after that. Hamasyan's Nonesuch Records debut Mockroot (2015), won the Echo Jazz Award for International Piano Instrumentalist of the Year. But The Call Within also illustrates Hamasyan's remarkable ...

Album Review

Evan Marien: Between Worlds

Read "Between Worlds" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 23, 2010

Questo giovane bassista (è nato a metà luglio del 1986) sta già riscuotendo grande considerazione fra i suoi colleghi e fra i fans più devoti allo strumento. Non a caso è stato recentemente segnalato come 'Most Exciting New Player' dalla rivista Bass Player Magazine. Ha studiato con Matthew Garrison (e si sente) ma non disdegna riferimenti ovvi a Jaco Pastorius (per esempio nella parte introduttiva di “Eternals and Apathetics"). Ha già suonato con musicisti già affermati come Jack DeJohnette, David ...