Jazz Articles about Adam Armstrong

About Adam Armstrong

Album Review

Listening to Zeit Zirkel (Time Circle), German-born and New York-based drummer Christian Finger's sixth album, you might not surmise that he was the leader of this ensemble--unless, that is, you glanced at the album jacket. Yes, Finger is present on every track and he anchors the quintet's reliable rhythm section. And yes, he composed and arranged every one of the session's 13 uniquely personal numbers. On the other hand, he nestles mostly within the woodwork, ceding the lion's ...

Album Review

Christian Finger: Zeit Zirkel

Read "Zeit Zirkel" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
October 1, 2026

Whether German-born, New York based drummer/composer Christian Finger (Lee Konitz, Ron Carter, Donny McCaslin) is well known within this circle or that circle holds no bearing on the shape of things and the highs heard on Zeit Zirkel. Making peace with grief and rooted in resilience, space, and spirit, the music makes its way through our daily distractions and focuses our vision on something much larger than an iPhone. Choosing instead to define grief as something to be ...

Album Review

Eric Person: Rhythm Edge

Read "Rhythm Edge" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
July 29, 2024

Remixed, remastered, re-upped and re-amped from its original 2007 release, Rhythm Edge (CD Baby) immediately grabs you with its free-ranged, deep- rooted soulfulness and classic vigor. A gifted, Hudson Valley gentleman, multi-reedist Eric Person's serpentine and soaring tenor, alto, soprano, and flutes are veterans of many years with Chico Hamilton, Dave Holland, the World Saxophone Quartet, Houston Person, (no relation) and a far-flung range of others (McCoy Tyner and Vernon Reid among them). Tightened by trimming ...

Album Review

Richard X Bennett: RXB3

by Chris May
May 14, 2021

Brooklyn-based pianist Richard X Bennett is kind of the love child of Ramsey Lewis and Norah Jones with a head stuffed full of mescaline. He has Lewis' two-fisted poppy funkiness down and Jones' gift for a melodic hook, too. The combination is enriched, one speculates, by extensive first-hand knowledge of hallucinogens. Bennett, who is by his standards conservatively attired on the front cover of this album, and even more so in the YouTube clip below, enjoys sporting ladies' leopard-skin tights ...

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Album Review

Sila Cevikce: A New Abode

Read "A New Abode" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
February 10, 2005

The art of jazz composition and improvisation are fully stated as Turkish born pianist Sila Cevikce provides some solid and noteworthy music on her debut release A New Abode. Since arriving in the U.S in 1993 she has sharpened her skills both academically at Berklee and professionally in performances with New York musicians as well as composing music for film and theater. What quickly becomes apparent is the depth, style, and articulation of Cevikce's muscial ideas which have influences from ...