Jazz Articles about Dave Liebman

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Album Review

David Liebman & Ellery Eskelin: Non Sequiturs

Read "Non Sequiturs" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
July 15, 2012

Non Sequiturs is the third Hatology release from the cooperative quartet co-led by saxophonist's David Liebman and Ellery Eskelin, following 2008's Renewal and their 2005 debut, Different But The Same. Although the pairing initially seemed surprising (Liebman is Eskelin's former teacher), the two tenors have since demonstrated an innate kinship; each is a fearless improviser, well-versed in the tradition, but unafraid to venture into uncharted territory.Throughout the album, they alternate probing cadences and lyrical motifs with an uncanny ...

Book Excerpts

Dave Liebman: What It Is - The Life of a Jazz Artist

by Lewis Porter
June 22, 2012

[The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist (Scarecrow Press, 2012), by saxophonist Dave Liebman, in conversation with Lewis Porter, author of John Coltrane: His Life and Music (University of Michigan Press, 2000). In it, Liebman and Porter discuss the saxophonist's involvement in the loft scene of the late 1960s/early 1970s in New York City, and creation Free Life Communication with a group of like-minded musicians.This excerpt appears ...

Book Review

Dave Liebman: What It Is - The Life of a Jazz Artist

by John Kelman
June 22, 2012

What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist Dave Liebman In Conversation with Lewis Porter 386 Pages ISBN: 978-0810882034 Scarecrow Press 2012 In life, there's them that are aware and them's that ain't. Them's that are aware are not necessarily better than them's that ain't; but in being aware, they're able to assess their own lives in a broader context and, perhaps, as they reach the later stages of life, truly comprehend ...

Album Review

Marc Copland David Liebman Duo: Impressions

Read "Impressions" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 7, 2012

There is no telling what an imaginative musician such as saxophonist Dave Liebman might do if he were given the kind of room to maneuver--to let his soul soar free--as pianist Marc Copland affords him on Impressions. It is as if the pianist gifted the saxophonist with a very large and empty canvas for Liebman to paint a musical landscape. Liebman needs no further invitation to wander off into the ocean of undiscovered sound. The saxophonist assumes the persona of ...

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Extended Analysis

Dave Liebman/Richie Beirach: Unspoken

by John Kelman
December 7, 2011

Dave Liebman / Richie Beirach Unspoken OutNote Records 2011 It's one thing for individual artists' voices to be instantly recognizable, another thing entirely when a readily identifiable language evolves amongst them, one that's absent when they're apart. There's no mistaking the bop-rooted expressionism that saxophonist Dave Liebman imbues with oblique lyricism, whether with his longstanding group on Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010) or in a new collection of largely old friends on ...

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Live Review

Dave Liebman Group at Café Paradiso

by John Kelman
June 2, 2011

Dave Liebman Group Café Paradiso Ottawa, Canada May 20-21, 2011 When saxophonist and recent NEA Jazz Master Dave Liebman brought his longstanding group to Ottawa's Café Paradiso a little over three years ago in April, 2008, it was truly one of the hottest, most memorable shows this city has seen in years--if not ever. Now two decades old, with three of its original members--Liebman, guitar underdog Vic Juris and the equally underappreciated bassist Tony Marino--still ...

Album Review

Dave Liebman: Live/As Always

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 17, 2011

L'apertura di questo bel disco della big band del saxofonista Dave Liebman è affidata ad una sorta di fanfara che richiama gli album di Michael Gibbs, uno degli arrangiatori e band leader più importanti nel jazz degli ultimi quarant'anni. Un punto di collegamento interessante che poi si ripresenta quà e la anche nel prosieguo del CD, in particolar modo nella scrittura dei tromboni. L'altro riferimento importante potrebbe essere la scrittura di Gil Evans, anche se ci dobbiamo fermare al Gil ...