Jazz Articles about Carl Verheyen

About Carl Verheyen

Album Review

Carl Verheyen: Essential Blues

Read "Essential Blues" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
December 24, 2017

At age 63, there isn't much L.A. session guitarist and sometime member of Supertramp Carl Verheyen doesn't know about music in general and the blues in particular. “By the time you get to my age, you've probably played the blues 10,000 times," he says ruefully. Of his latest album, Essential Blues, Verheyen says: “With this album, I wanted to put down some of the things that are important to me about the music but ...

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Album Review

Pear: Extemp'ore

Read "Extemp'ore" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
July 4, 2011

Most jazz albums involve at least a little bit of preparation: song selection, rehearsals, selection of sidemen and so on. Pear, on the other hand, is after something much more spontaneous and pure on its debut, Extemp'ore. The group is comprised of percussionist Rick Milne and keyboardist Nick Pierone. They enter the studio and play whatever comes to mind, sometimes inviting a few other musicians along for the ride, like bassists Jennifer Leitham and Jimmy Johnson). The songs are then ...