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Anne Drummond, Dima Bondarev, Tamir Barzilay, Camila Meza & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Another round of gorgeous releases, with a spotlight on the sonic alchemy emerging from Pete Min's Lucy's Meat Market studio in L.A.--plus a welcome chance to hear Anne Drummond step into the spotlight as a leader.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Anne Drummond “Tell Me a Bedtime Story" Modern Standards (Audiophile Society) 0:16 Host talks 5:21 Dima Bondarev “Good Things Come to Those Who Wait" Get a Second ...
Continue ReadingJazz Dispatch Series / Simons Summer Concert Series: Tom Manuel, Champian Fulton, Dean Johnson and Dan Pugach
by Dan Bilawsky
A 5 p.m. performance on a Tuesday in a math and physics building on a college campus isn't exactly your garden variety jazz hit. But then again, what is?! In programming for The Jazz Loft's Dispatch Series stop at Stony Brook's Simons Center for Geometry and Physics--part of that institution's summer concert slate within its broader Arts and Outreach Program--trumpeter Tom Manuel put together a crack quartet featuring pianist/vocalist Champian Fulton, bassist Dean Johnson and drummer Dan Pugach. Presenting a ...
Continue ReadingCal Tjader: Amazonas
by Richard J Salvucci
Multi-instrumentalist Cal Tjader has been gone for over forty years. Had he lived, he would be in his nineties today. The West Coast scene he entered, first as a drummer, then as a vibraphonist, was a world of clubs, acoustic bands, and enthusiastic promoters who pushed their favorite artists' careers. For Tjader, it was San Francisco, the Blackhawk, and jazz writer Ralph Gleason. Tjader broke in playing with Dave Brubeck in 1948. He was continuously employed until his premature death ...
Continue ReadingSam Dillon: My Ideal
by Jack Bowers
Any impartial assessment of My Ideal, Sam Dillon's second album for Cellar Music (following 2018's Out in the Open), should leave no doubt that the New York-born and based tenor saxophonist has definitely hit his stride, punctuating an already strong and persuasive voice on the horn with ample self-confidence and and a bounteous wellspring of innovative concepts and ingenious phrases. In other words, Dillon is the whole package, swinging in the same league as such heralded contemporaries ...
Continue ReadingAbdou - Gouband - Warelis: Hammer, Roll and Leaf
by John Sharpe
The multinational threesome of French saxophonist Sakina Abdou, French percussionist Toma Gouband and Polish pianist Marta Warelis establishes a striking group identity on Hammer Roll Leaf. From the opening track, “Roll," the trio's compositional instincts and collective discipline distinguish them from the crowded field of free improvisers. Warelis begins with cascading piano figures--robust, resonant and allowed to decay into silence. Abdou eventually enters, their alto saxophone lines darting and entwining with Warelis' lyric remnants, until they develop a dashing forward ...
Continue ReadingEddie Palmieri: Latin Jazz Standard-Bearer
by R.J. DeLuke
This article was first published on All About Jazz on October 8, 2003. Eddie Palmieri has enjoyed a long career presenting Latin music to the United States and to the world. It's his calling, for sure, but it may be more than that. You see, Palmieri feels that the music he brings--dance music with the excitement that comes from real Cuban-based rhythms first, and jazz or other flavors second--may be dying out. The baton for keeping ...
Continue ReadingImprovisation Versus Composition
by Robert J. Lewis
What is it that attracts music lovers to jazz (improvised music)? Is it the loose structure, or the beat or the notes and melodies we have never heard before and will never hear again, unless the performance has been recorded? Or is it the musician's uncanny ability to spontaneously translate feelings that inform the notes into the language of music? Perhaps it is the musician's audacity and courage --daring to play without a script; to make it up as they ...
Continue ReadingDave Sewelson, Aruan Ortiz, Neil Charles & Rich Brown
by Maurice Hogue
Check out the final track and you'll hear why Toronto's Rich Brown is hailed as one of the finest electric bassists on the planet. His new solo album, Nyaeba, is filled with over-the-moon technique and electronic wizardry. English bassist Neil Charles' debut, Dark Days , is fueled by the words of James Baldwin, while guitarist Gregg Belisle-Chi continues to explore his fascination with the compositions of Tim Berne. Another solo exploration comes from pianist Aruan Ortiz, continuing to dig deep ...
Continue ReadingMark Winkler, Yuko Mabuchi, Bonnie J. Jensen, Lauren Henderson, Emma Hendrick, Nicholas Payton & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Mark Winkler, Yuko Mabuchi, Bonnie J. Jensen, Lauren Henderson, Emma Hendrick plus a single from Nicholas Payton's latest, with birthday shoutouts to Honorable Men Hank Jones, Tony Bennett and Kevin Mahogany plus Camille Bertault, Tara Davidson, Kat Edmonson, Antoinette Montegue, Shamie Royston, Claudia Acuna and Connie Converse, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the ...
Continue ReadingMeet Dabin Ryu
by Cheryl K.
In this hour, an interview with pianist, arranger, and composer Dabin Ryu. Her debut album on Endectomorph Records is titled Trio! with Joe Martin on bass and Johnathan Blake on drums. Playlist Lôro Malandro “Baião Quotidiano" from Enrumbado (Dodicilune) 2:30 Paul Harrison “Transition" from Encontros: The Music of Egberto Gismonti (Harriphonic) 1:47 Carter Fox “Boomin'" from Physics of the Impossible (Insert) 2:38 [excerpt] Dabin Ryu “Vertigo" from Trio! (Endectomorph) 4:57 [excerpt] Dabin Ryu “The Well" from Trio! (Endectomorph) ...
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