Jazz Articles about Cleveland Jazz Project

Cleveland Jazz Project at Nighttown

by Matt Marshall
July 26, 2009

Cleveland Jazz Project Nighttown Cleveland Heights, Ohio July 15, 2009

For the last couple of years, summer has brought two welcome certainties to Cleveland jazz fans: three weeks of warm weather and the return of the Cleveland Jazz Project. Last seen at Nighttown in June backing singer/pianist Hallie Sinclair, CJP was freed this time out to explore the aggressive spirals of the type of angular modern jazz for which they have developed a loyal ...

Cleveland Jazz Project at Nighttown

by Matt Marshall
January 9, 2009

Cleveland Jazz ProjectNighttownCleveland Heights, OhioJanuary 3, 2009It's always refreshing and exciting to see young musicians eager to stretch their wings. Especially young jazz musicians in Cleveland. While there were times during the Cleveland Jazz Project's show January 3 at Nighttown when things didn't quite work, when the dueling saxophones of Nathan Davis and Wenzl McGowen tripped over one another, it never lessened CJP's headlong charge. A regression to safe bop covers was never in the ...