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Ernie Krivda and Theron Brown at Free Concerts in Cleveland
by John Chacona
Ernie Krivda and friends Ernie's front porch Lakewood, Ohio July 31, 2022 jny: Cleveland, Ohio is the birthplace of Albert Ayler and the late Abdul Wadud. It's where the Black Unity Trio recorded what was probably the first free jazz record to be independently released. The city's free jazz bona fides are unquestioned, even if that style of music isn't widely played there anymore. But as a blistering July melted into a sweltering ...
read moreErnie Krivda: Requiem For A Jazz Lady
by Bruce Lindsay
It's been over 40 years since tenor saxophonist Ernie Krivda first appeared on record. In a career going back six decades he's released around 30 albums under his own name and appeared on many more. His tenor sound, often plaintive, is distinctive and affecting. On Requiem For A Jazz Lady the tenor is given a quartet setting, an ideal format in which Krivda's instrument can shine. The Jazz Lady of the album title is not, as one might ...
read moreErnie Krivda: Blues for Pekar
by Matt Marshall
On Blues for Pekar, Cleveland saxophonist Ernie Krivda pays tribute, not only to the late writer, critic and jazz aficionado Harvey Pekar, but also to the time and place from which both men hailed. Working with the Detroit Connection rhythm section also featured on the saxophonist's Live at the Dirty Dog (CIMPoL, 2010), Krivda swings mightily through a set of bebop standards and originals that skip, sing and warmly sway to the pulsing beat of the rust belt in its ...
read moreErnie Krivda: The Art of the Trio
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per fortuna che c'è il produttore Bob Rusch a dare spazio al sassofonista di Cleveland Ernie Krivda visto che gli altri da un pezzo lo hanno dimenticato, dopo un inizio promettente. Eppure c'è poco da lamentarsi su quella che è la capacità di Krivda, non solo al sassofono, ma anche come compositore che segue i dettami dell'era bop, bravo ad usare famosi standards come base dei suoi brani. Per la prima volta su disco Krivda segue la formula del trio, ...
read moreErnie Krivda Quintet: Live in New York City
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ogni tanto il sassofonista tenore Ernie Krivda si sposta dall'originaria Cleveland a New York per farsi ascoltare in giro con il suo nuovo quintetto, un gruppo insieme da alcuni anni e costituito da musicisti di tutte le età. Questa volta ci presenta una session live, registrata per caso allo Sweet Rhythm di New York (una volta conosciuto come Sweet Basil), con un registratore digitale del chitarrista Bob Fraser. Grazie ad un buon lavoro di post-produzione la qualita' audio risulta buona ...
read moreErnie Krivda Quintet: Stellar Sax
by Derek Taylor
In lesser hands the title of this new CIMP release might seem both pompous and presumptuous, but not so when the mantle applies to Ernie Krivda. The Cleveland-based saxophonist has been in the game going on four decades, time enough to sharpen chops on his horn that easily justify the aggrandizing appellation. Narrowing his set of influences isn't as easy as it might seem: I hear slivers of Harold Land and Zoot Sims in his sound, but mostly in terms ...
read moreErnie Krivda & The Fat Tuesday Big Band: Perdido
by Jack Bowers
As spring slowly runs its course and summer's warmth entices us, here's an early front-runner in the competition for Big Band Album of the Year. Ernie Krivda's Cleveland-based Fat Tuesday Band is a monstrous fire-breathing dragon with great charts, excellent soloists and, above all, a charming un-dragonlike personality all its own. There are, of course, a large number of marvelous contemporary ensembles working assiduously (for love, not money) from one end of the country to the other. One thing that ...
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