Jazz Articles about Bob Kaufman

About Bob Kaufman

Album Review

Kaufman/Gertz/Bergonzi: Dreaming Out Loud

Read "Dreaming Out Loud" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
July 25, 2003

These guys make it sound so effortless to make ageless sounds in the trio format. With tenor sax man Jerry Bergonzi out front, the atmosphere is a mix of late '50s/early '60s sensibilities and new millennium themes. Indeed, after a dozen and a half spins of the disc, Charlie Parker keeps coming to mind--Bergonzi is very at home in the upper register of the tenor--suggesting the Yardbird's potential flight path had he not died young. There is a bird-like (Yardbird-ish) ...

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Album Review

Kaufman / Gertz / Bergonzi: The Line Between

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2002

I started by reading Charlie Banacos’ liner notes to The Line Between, which probably make perfect sense to musicians but are far too abstruse for my untrained mind. I can pass on the observation that Jerry Bergonzi’s compositions — he wrote everything except “Fourth Ray,” which is a group effort — are “based on a technique called ‘intervallics’,” which I must confess isn’t too clear to me but has something to do with the fact that, as Banacos writes, “in ...