Jazz Articles about Andy Schumm

About Andy Schumm

Album Review

Oliver-Smith Incomparables: Stomp Your Stuff

Read "Stomp Your Stuff" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
August 29, 2026

Many bands play early jazz these days, but few make it sound as if the ink is still wet on the page. The Oliver-Smith Incomparables accomplish exactly that on Stomp Your Stuff, a recording that salutes the musical language of Jelly Roll Morton without ever treating it as a historical artifact. Pianist Andrew Oliver and drummer Hal Smith lead an exceptional ensemble featuring Colin Hancock on cornet, Andy Schumm on clarinet-cornet, T.J. Müller on trombone-cornet-vocal, Jacob Alspach on guitar-banjo, and ...

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Oliver-Smith Incomparables: Stomp Your Stuff

Read "Stomp Your Stuff" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 28, 2026

Although he was best known as a pianist, the late Jelly Roll Morton was never shy when it came to blowing his own horn. Among Morton's claims was that he had “invented" jazz, an assertion that almost surely stretches the truth but is virtually impossible to disprove. What is known is that Morton was playing a form of jazz as early as 1904 and that he and a later band, the Red Hot Peppers, helped place “hot jazz" on the ...

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The New Wonders: Steppin' Out

Read "Steppin' Out" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 20, 2024

Although the ten songs performed by cornetist Mike Davis' Brooklyn-based septet, The New Wonders, on the group's second album, Steppin' Out, are well removed from new, most have stood the test of time and remained popular with a small yet devoted number of trad jazz enthusiasts, some for a century or more. The New Wonders carry forward a storied tradition that dates at least as far back as the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in the early 1920s and whose best-known ...

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The New Wonders: Steppin' Out

Read "Steppin' Out" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
May 27, 2024

There's something effervescent and addictive about the music of the late 1920s. Perhaps it is the fact that technological advancements allow for superior sound quality of the music of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven, Bix Beiderbecke and Sidney Bechet. Reinforcement from period entertainment such as “Boardwalk Empire," (HBO, 2010-14) “The Great Gatsby," (Warner Brothers, 2013) et al, has opened new ears to the classic stylings. With Steppin' Out, cornetist Mike Davis and his cadre of cats offer a ...