Jazz Articles about Aaron Goldberg

About Aaron Goldberg

Radio & Podcasts

Aaron Goldberg: It's Impossible To Separate Jazz From The Civil Rights Movement

by Leo Sidran
October 24, 2024

After the election of George W. Bush in 2000, Aaron Goldberg began wondering what he could do in the next election to help make a difference. At the time, he was a 26 year old pianist only a few years out of college, but who was quickly establishing himself as a credible musical voice in the jazz world, and a musician who is dedicated to helping move people in multiple senses of the word. Aaron was raised outside ...

Album Review

Yes! Trio: Spring Sings

Read "Spring Sings" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
March 8, 2024

With over twenty albums as leaders between them and two previous trio recordings including the widely acclaimed Groove Du Jour (jazz&people, 2019) the Yes! Trio--drummer Ali Jackson, bassist Omer Avital, and pianist Aaron Goldberg--light it up bright on Spring Sings!. An old school trio session, Spring Sings! is a jumpy (in a non-anxiety ridden way), spiky (ditto) and punchy (not punch drunk) affair that gets the ball rolling from the start with Jackson's most Ahmad Jamal-like title track. ...

Radio & Podcasts

The Montreal Jazz Festival Is Back In Full Swing

by Leo Sidran
July 20, 2022

After a two-year slowdown due to COVID, the Montreal International Jazz Festival came back this year. I had been there a couple times, in and out, as a musician. I went this year to cover the festival's full return for The Third Story. When you're a musician at a festival like MJF, the job is actually pretty clear. You get to the gig, play the gig, pack up and go to the next gig. But what does a ...

Album Review

Raphaël Pannier Quartet: Faune

by Jerome Wilson
January 24, 2021

On his first recording as a leader, drummer Raphaël Pannier shows himself to be a musician who has one foot in the classical world and one foot in jazz. He leads his group in a set of original and classic compositions from both genres, maintaining a sense of formal grace and improvisational energy throughout. Pannier's quartet performs two familiar jazz tunes. A version of Ornette Coleman's “Lonely Woman" flows with somber intensity; Miguel Zenon's alto flies and Ben ...

Album Review

Raphaël Pannier Quartet: Faune

by Dan Bilawsky
November 3, 2020

The debut from drummer Raphaël Pannier has no difficulty laying out references to modern modes of impressionism and the nature of wildlife implied in its title. Its opener --a ten-minute take on Ornette Coleman's “Lonely Woman" that offers slinky melody, sophisticated coloring, intense upheaval, a bass soliloquy and a return to the shadowy theme--is but the first of many indications that Pannier can paint open compositions in altered light while also awakening and taming tension. It's an artful display of ...

Album Review

Aaron Goldberg: At the Edge of the World

Read "At the Edge of the World" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 11, 2019

A quattro anni di distanza dall'album The Now Aaron Goldberg presenta un sorprendente piano trio, sostituendo il lungo sodalizio col contrabbassista Reuben Rogers e il batterista Eric Harland. I nuovi partner sono Matt Penman e Leon Parker e la sorpresa riguarda proprio quest'ultimo, che ritorna a incidere negli Stati Uniti dopo quasi vent'anni di assenza. Parker è stato tra i batteristi/percussionisti più innovativi degli anni novanta ma all'alba del nuovo millennio s'è trasferito in Francia eclissandosi quasi completamente dalla scena ...

Radio & Podcasts

Aaron Goldberg, John Coltrane and more

by Joe Dimino
January 28, 2019

This week's episode of Neon Jazz opens with At the Edge of the World, the latest album by gifted New York City-based jazz pianist Aaron Goldberg. During the rest of the episode we feature music ranging from the feisty veteran Betty Carter to the richly talented Kansas City saxophonist Ernest Melton from his highly anticipated album The Time of Slave Is Over. Also featured are, among others, the great Don Friedman, Ken Thomson, James Francies, John Fedchock and old masters ...