Jazz Articles about Adam Nussbaum

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Linley Hamilton Quintet: For The Record

by Ian Patterson
March 17, 2020

Linley Hamilton's fifth album is a cross-Atlantic affair. Alongside regular collaborators Cian Boylan and Derek 'Doc' O'Connor, the Irish trumpeter has enrolled the services of New York heavyweights Adam Nussbaum and Mark Egan--fellow instructors at the annual Sligo Jazz Project where Hamilton has long been a fixture. The quintet rounded off a short Northern Irish tour in 2019 with a session in Dublin's Camden Recording Studio which realized the music herein. As on Hamilton's Making Other Arrangements (Teddy D Records, ...

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Adam Nussbaum: The Lead Belly Project

by Maurizio Comandini
April 25, 2018

Il noto batterista Adam Nussbaum guida un bel quartetto con il saxofonista Ohad Talmor e i due chitarristi Steve Cardenas e Nate Radley in un viaggio alla riscoperta delle melodie piane e semplici di Huddie William Ledbetter, meglio noto come Leadbelly o, se vogliamo aderire alla versione preferita da Nussbaum, Lead Belly. Un viaggio profumato ovviamente di blues, visto che Lead Belly è stato uno degli story teller più acclamati di questa musica, nella sua versione più tradizionale e genuina. ...

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Adam Nussbaum: Back To Basics

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 5, 2018

For his first album as a leader, The Leadbelly Project (Sunnyside Records), Adam Nussbaum has decided to focus on one of his first musical heroes, Huddie William Ledbetter, best known as Leadbelly. With an original line-up featuring two guitar players (Steve Cardenas and Nate Radley) and one saxophonist (Ohad Talmor) Adam Nussbaum has chosen to go on a path less travelled, putting aside for a moment his power drumming and going back to basics with a project that prioritizes communication ...

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Adam Nussbaum: The Lead Belly Project

by Dan McClenaghan
December 19, 2017

The blues is simple music. What do they call it? Three chords and the truth? They say the same about country music and rock, but that's another article. But for much of American music, blues is the bedrock, be it rock, soul, funk, a good slice of country western, and, yes, jazz. Drummer Adam Nussbaum zeros in on the blues with the Lead Belly Project, exploring the seminal delta blues of Huddie Ledbetter (1888-1949), aka, Lead Belly.

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John Scofield: Out Like a Light

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 15, 2011

La ristampa di questo album del 1981 del notissimo chitarrista John Scofield ci consente di fare il punto sulla carriera di uno dei nomi di punta del panorama jazzistico degli ultimi trent'anni. All'epoca della registrazione di questo eccellente album in trio Scofield non era ancora approdato alla corte di Miles Davis, ma era già ben noto fra gli appassionati della chitarra elettrica, come una delle voci emergenti di quel periodo, assieme a Pat Metheny e a Bill Frisell. In questi ...

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(Another) Nuttree Quartet (Abercrombie / Anderson / Liebman / Nussbaum): Something Sentimental

by John Kelman
December 21, 2009

It's always a pleasure to hear a group of musicians who, over the years, have developed not just a strong musical bond, but a personal one as well. If it's a truth that most musicians' style is a direct extension of their personality--of who they are--then it's equally logical to extrapolate that the musical interaction between them somehow mirrors the way their friendships have evolved.

First coming together for a party to honor the recently departed ...

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The Nuttree Quartet (John Abercrombie / Jerry Bergonzi / Adam Nussbaum / Gary Versace): Standards

by John Kelman
August 26, 2008

With the plethora of discs released every year that over-mine the standards repertoire, it's easy to forget that there was a time when an album called Standards would not be considered almost a dirty word. Saxophonist David Liebman's recently unearthed Pendulum Live at the Village Vanguard (Mosaic, 2008) is one such example. Drummer Adam Nussbaum, figurative leader of The Nuttree Quartet and occasional Liebman collaborator, may not demonstrate quite the same visceral energy on Standards, but there's still plenty of ...