Jazz Articles about Dave Liebman

David Liebman & Ellery Eskelin: Renewal

by Troy Collins
June 20, 2008

Renewal is the brilliant follow-up to Different But The Same (Hatology, 2003), the debut of saxophonists Dave Liebman and Ellery Eskelin's co-led quartet. Initially perceived as a curious pairing, with Liebman the conservative elder to Eskelin's liberal youth, the two tenors actually share numerous aesthetic similarities, including an affinity for both inside and outside playing. Although separated by a generational divide, they have longstanding ties; Eskelin studied with Liebman in the early eighties.Liebman's stalwart bassist Tony Marino and ...

Saxophone Summit: Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Ravi Coltrane: Seraphic Light

by John Kelman
June 2, 2008

Formed in the mid-1990s by three of jazz's leading post-Coltrane exponents--not just to pay homage to the saxophone legend's exploratory latter period work, but to advance his collaborative and collective soloing aesthetic into a fully contemporary context nearly thirty years after his death--Saxophone Summit was dealt a tremendous blow, as was the entire jazz world, when co-founding member Michael Brecker passed away in 2007.

Still, Saxophone Summit's remaining front-liners, Dave Liebman and Joe Lovano, decided that continuing on with pianist ...

David Liebman & Ellery Eskelin: Renewal

by Chris May
May 26, 2008

When saxophonists Dave Liebman and Ellery Eskelin got together to make Different But The Same (Hatology, 2003), it seemed a strange partnership--Liebman, the Jedi master of structure and changes, and Eskelin, best known for gutsy free improv. But the album title proved to have been well chosen, and the two players showed that a lot more united than divided them, acknowledging each other's core disciplines and creating something alive and beautiful in the space between them. The sparks fly again ...

Dave Liebman Group, Ottawa, Canada, April 24, 2008

by John Kelman
May 13, 2008

Dave Liebman Group Cafe Paradiso Ottawa, Canada April 24, 2008

Aside from the annual TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival, it's rare that Ottawans get to experience a group that has, for many years, successfully brought together a lifetime's worth of experience into a sound encompassing all that makes jazz what it is in the 21st Century. Local bassist John Geggie brings six shows a years to the city's Fourth Stage--musical ...

David Liebman /Jim Ridl: The Creative Process in Jazz

by Victor L. Schermer
February 25, 2008

The idea for this interview came to me when I became aware of two aspects of jazz as a creative, artistic process. First, unlike most other art forms, jazz creativity emerges directly in performance through improvisation. Every jazz performance is unique and comes together in real time while it is being played. Each moment is an original contribution, and not merely an interpretation. Second, it is clear that some musicians push the envelope more than others. They take necessary risks ...

David Liebman / Richie Beirach / Ron McClure / Billy Hart: Redemption - Quest Live in Europe

by David Adler
February 10, 2008

In 2005 Quest did Led Zeppelin one better, reuniting all four original members to play gigs in the US and Europe. Active in the 1980s and into the early 1990s, this super-group was just one project that over the decades involved saxophonist Dave Liebman and pianist Richie Beirach. Interest in the band was renewed by a set of archival material released by Mosaic in 2004. Now comes Redemption. Recorded live in Switzerland and France, the album finds ...

David Liebman / Roberto Tarenzi / Paolo Benedettini / Tony Arco: Dream of Nite

by John Kelman
December 3, 2007

All too often, an artist's recordings don't come anywhere close to representing his/her full scope. American artists often tour Europe with groups worthy of being heard but rarely documented--and if they are, it's on obscure labels almost never seeing the light of day Stateside. Saxophonist Dave Liebman has occasionally worked with this fine trio of Italian musicians over the past few years, making Dream of Nite not just good news for documenting this quartet from a series of 2005 live ...