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Scott Colley, Edward Simon, Brian Blade: Three Visitors
by Angelo Leonardi
È un disco che lascia il segno questo variopinto ritorno di Scott Colley, Edward Simon e Brian Blade con ospiti di rilievo come Chris Potter e Becca Stevens. Ricordiamo che il trio ha debuttato più di un decennio fa, quando incise a nome di Simon Steel House per la ArtistShare. Negli anni passati i tre hanno fatto parte del quartetto di David Binney (ricordiamo Océanos e Afinidad) e svolto separate esperienze in altri contesti (Adam Rogers, Benjamin Koppel). ...
Continue ReadingChick Corea, Christian McBride and Brian Blade: Triology 3
by Mike Jurkovic
The gift that graciously and selflessly keeps on giving, Chick Corea, Christian McBride and Brian Blade, known far and wide by both young and old as Trilogy, comes to life once more on Triology 3. Cut short by that global pandemic the world still cannot shake, these gloriously effusive live performances are gathered from the trio's final tour (February-March 2020), precisely a year before the pianist's death in February 2021 from a rare cancer. He was 79.
Continue ReadingScott Colley, Edward Simon, Brian Blade: Three Visitors
by Mike Jurkovic
There are the many moments to hold and savor on Three Visitors, the second trio offering from pianist Edward Simon, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade. Like their 2017 eponymous debut Steel House (Artist Share), Three Visitors is artful, understated, elegant and so soul deep. A late night disk to rest with and to reflect upon days in the distance and days ahead. Simon (SFJazz Collective), Colley (Andrew Hill and Herbie Hancock) and Blade are '90s post-boppers who have enjoyed each other's ...
Continue ReadingDetroit Jazz Festival 2024: The Year of Alice
by Paul Rauch
Detroit Jazz Festival 2024 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI August 30-September 2, 2024 An annual pilgrimage to the Detroit Jazz Festival allows a jazz fan, or in this case, a jazz journalist, to reset to an internal default setting for what this music means to us on a very personal and spiritual level. The world's largest free jazz festival removes financial barriers of access and brings the music to the people, whether you ...
Continue ReadingWayne Shorter: Celebration Volume 1
by Mike Jurkovic
Wayne Shorter never rested on his or anyone's laurels. So when at the start of this perilous century he convened his great, late-stage quartet with pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade it wasn't to take the bandstand and placate audience and skeptics with greatest hits or refurbished takes on old standards. It was to create new and now again, just as he had with Art Blakey (1959-19630), Miles Davis (1964-1970), and Weather Report (1971-1986). In Shorter's expansionist ...
Continue ReadingWayne Shorter: Celebration Volume 1
by Chris May
In 2000, three years short of entering his eighth decade on this planet--a place of origin which at times seemed questionable, though he made less fuss about it than Sun Ra--Wayne Shorter finally did what he had resisted doing throughout his career. He formed his own band, not just for an album project but as an ongoing touring and recording unit. By the time Shorter passed in 2023, the Wayne Shorter Quartet had released four live albums and a studio ...
Continue ReadingKoppel, Blade, Koppel: Time Again
by Glenn Astarita
This multi-generational trio featuring the Danish father/son team of Benjamin Koppel (alto sax) and Anders Koppel (organ), alongside ace drummer Brian Blade, is a decidedly forward-looking affair. But it also pays homage to classic jazz's boundless joy and irreverent spirit with a sly wink and more than a few joyous surprises. Blade's often explosive, polyrhythmic cyclone meshes seamlessly with Anders' bubbling organ articulations. Benjamin's alto sax work deftly rides the grooves while jabbing in unexpected angular asides, creating ...
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