Jazz Articles about Andrew Renfroe

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Bob Reynolds: Eddie Told Me So

by Jack Bowers
April 4, 2026

When Bob Reynolds first heard tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris, he was more than impressed. “I've been inspired by his music ever since," Reynolds writes. Indeed, he was. So inspired, in fact, that there is more than a little Harris in his tenor's tone and temper on Eddie Told Me So, in which Reynolds' quartet does its best to refresh the Harris legacy for a new generation of listeners as well as for those who may have overlooked the legendary tenor ...

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Adam Hersh: Tornado Watch

by Nicholas F. Mondello
July 1, 2024

Tornado Watch is a uniquely attractive album from pianist Adam Hersh and his terrific sidemen. It offers ten tracks of intelligent, intensely-performed music. All the songs here are Hersh originals (save one) and each was recorded live in Los Angeles at the “Sam First" jazz club. “Woe V Shade," obviously a politically directed word play, is a multi-tempoed track with an eight-note theme over a frantic foundation. Hersh takes off on an extended and energetic Rhodes solo, ...

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Rachel Eckroth: Humanoid

by Sharonne Cohen
October 6, 2023

"Humanoid is a departure for me," Rachel Eckroth said when we spoke about her new piano quartet album, recorded at Sam First jazz club in Los Angeles on October 28 and 29, 2022. Taking her first piano lesson at the age of five, this accomplished, multifaceted musician has honed her craft over the four decades since, becoming not only a gifted and versatile pianist and keyboardist, but a vocalist and songwriter. Engaged in creative projects spanning jazz, indie and pop, ...

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Tina Raymond: Divinations

by Mike Jurkovic
October 5, 2023

Drummer Tina Raymond possesses a buoyant momentum and contemporary polyrhythmic sense of swing which has a listener skidding along one moment and bopping down the next. She owns a rock 'n roll snap in her wrists which keeps the energy high-spirited all the way. Raymond, whose wanderlust CV includes her first album as a leader--Left Right Left (Orenad, 2017)--plus working with wily pianist and composer Rachel Eckroth--Humanoid (Sam First, 2023)--and as a founding member of the equally fiery ...

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Rachel Eckroth: Humanoid

by Mike Jurkovic
September 22, 2023

Pianist Rachel Eckroth may use wellness or New agey terms such as polymath or bold vision to describe her approach to her considerable art, but she gets down to Earth for real and very quickly on Humanoid, her first all-acoustic recording. Recorded live at Sam's First in Los Angeles, Eckroth's very active imagination spearheads a group, including bassist and all round jazz entrepreneur Billy Mohler, drummer Tina Raymond--whose uncanny sense for everything a drummer can do, can be ...

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Luke Sellick and Andrew Renfroe: Wichita Lineman

by Geno Thackara
July 24, 2023

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Bouvier: Blachant

by Angelo Leonardi
March 9, 2023

Dai consigli d'amministrazione alla sala d'incisione. L'antropologa e urban designer Jackie “Bouvier" Copeland è stata riconosciuta di recente tra i massimi leader filantropici del mondo ed è impegnata in varie iniziative internazionali di sostegno umanitario. Ha fondato il programma “Black Philanthropy Month," la rete di filantropia femminile “Reunity" ed è dirigente di “The Women Invested to Save Earth Fund." Questo debutto discografico, prodotto dal bassista Ben Williams, s'inscrive in quest'attività, presentandosi come una profonda riflessione (anche spirituale) sui ...