Jazz Articles about Charnett Moffett

About Charnett Moffett

Liner Notes

Solo bass records are rare, and might seem to appeal mostly to bassists and bass aficionados. But on The Bridge Charnett Moffett, the charismatic bass virtuoso with an impressive past and equally brilliant future, has proven here without benefit of a band--that his music can touch anyone who loves music, regardless of instrumentation or genre. Alone with his upright bass, Moffett has created an engaging hour of organic, richly detailed and fundamentally physical sounds. He lays down ...

Radio & Podcasts

Trios, Duos and Solos

by Jerome Wilson
July 15, 2022

This show focuses mainly on the smallest units of jazz interaction, trios and duos, with a couple of solo performances thrown in along the way. Artists heard on the program include Matthew Shipp, the collective trio Air, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Adam Larson and Bill Frisell. There is also a special mention of bassist Charnett Moffett, who passed away a week before this program originally aired. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete ...

Radio & Podcasts

Maria Schneider, Charnett Moffett and Carl Fischer

by Joe Dimino
May 1, 2022

We proudly open the 749th Episode of Neon Jazz with veteran trumpeter Carl Fischer and his group TËTI with their take on the classic “What a Wonderful World." From there, we listen to Carl's boss (Billy Joel) doing the “Root Beer Rag" at the New Orleans Jazz Fest. New music is featured from guitarist Daniel DeLorenzo, John C. O'Leary III, Jordan Ferrin and Quinn Sternberg. We say good-bye to a titan of jazz and a wonderful person in Charnett Moffett, ...

Album Review

Charnett Moffett: New Love

Read "New Love" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
September 2, 2021

If one thing is obvious from this CD, it is that electric bassist Charnett Moffett is a happy man these days. His playing leaps out of the speakers on these tracks with joy and high spirits. That may be because he works here in the company of his “new love," his wife, guitarist Jana Herzen. The two of them bounce, dance and wiggle their instruments together on twelve wide-ranging tracks which take in funk, reggae, folk, and psychedelia, always exuding ...

Radio & Podcasts

Past Grapplin'

by Patrick Burnette
July 22, 2021

Since the seventies, it's arguable that most jazz musicians work in “old" idioms (even if they mix and match them in new ways), but this episode's artists each take on aspects of jazz's past that seem, well, more past than most. Sometimes the commitment to the older idiom is complete, sometimes it comes and goes, but either way the results are fascinating. Playlist Discussion of Scott Hamilton's album After Hours (Concord) 1:45 Discussion of Evan Arntzen' ...

Album Review

Dave Bryant: Night Visitors

Read "Night Visitors" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
July 12, 2020

Free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman didn't record much with piano players. Exceptions were Geri Allen on Sound Museum: Three Women and Sound Museum: Hidden Man, released simultaneously in 1996 on Harmolodic / Verve, and Dave Bryant on Tone Dialing (Harmolodic / Verve, 1995), during Coleman's Prime Time days.Bryant's immersion in Coleman's sound—he has conducted master classes in the alto saxophonist's Harmolodic theory and performance at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music—lays the foundation ...

Album Review

Charnett Moffett: Music From Our Soul

Read "Music From Our Soul" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 20, 2017

Bassist Charnett Moffett is one of those figures that we tend to take for granted, mostly because it seems like he's simply always been here. The once-upon-a-time child prodigy has been omnipresent on the scene since the mid '80s, holding down the low end for jazz's elite while bringing strength, consistency, and creativity to the fore through his bass work. A short list of Moffett's employers and colleagues reads like a jazz history lesson--saxophonists Ornette Coleman and Kenny Garrett, drummers ...