Jazz Articles about Eddie Daniels

Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway: Duke at the Roadhouse: Live in Santa Fe

by Hrayr Attarian
November 14, 2013

For their third collaboration on IPO records, veteran musicians pianist Roger Kellaway and multireed player Eddie Daniels recorded a benefit concert for “Santa Fe Center for Therapeutic Riding." The resulting Duke at the Roadhouse: Live in Santa Fe is a tribute to pianist and composer Duke Ellington comprising eight of his standards and an original a piece by Kellaway and Daniels. This unique and elegant interpretation of Ellington's work is laid back but vibrant, exuberant yet mature. On ...

Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway: Duke at the Roadhouse: Live in Santa Fe

by Jack Bowers
July 13, 2013

For a powerful adrenaline rush, it's hard to beat a full house (sixteen or seventeen single-minded musicians wailing in unison and swinging like there's no tomorrow), although there's a lot to be said for a pair of aces, too. That's the hand that's dealt on Duke at the Roadhouse: Live in Santa Fe, the aces in question being clarinetist / tenor saxophonist Eddie Daniels and pianist Roger Kellaway (with cellist James Holland raising the ante as a wild card on ...

Ellingtonian Intimacy: Dukish Duos

by Dan Bilawsky
June 7, 2013

Duke Ellington elevated the art of big band writing to great heights, but his music was never relegated to the large ensemble corner of the room. While it's true that the large majority of his recordings showcase the ever-evolving, yet incredibly consistent “Orchestra" he fronted, he wasn't averse to presenting his music in small group settings; in fact, the rare duo session--This One's For Blanton (Pablo, 1973) with bassist Ray Brown--or trio outing with unlikely collaborators--Money Jungle (United Artists, 1962) ...

Eddie Daniels / Roger Kellaway: Live at the Library of Congress

by Nic Jones
January 7, 2012

This is a wonderfully sympathetic duo. Pianist Roger Kellaway has an identity which brings together Ellis Larkins, Bill Evans and deep knowledge of jazz piano, whilst Eddie Daniels may be the most formidably correct clarinetist in jazz today, without ever letting technique get in the way of expression. Add to this duo's many attributes the fact that they play without a safety net and you have something special--so much so that Kellaway and Daniels even make something ...

Eddie Daniels / Roger Kellaway: Live At The Library Of Congress

by Dan Bilawsky
January 5, 2012

The Library Of Congress is a repository for important cultural artifacts, so it seems only fitting that it should serve as the stage for a duo recital from two of jazz's greatest treasures. Clarinetist Eddie Daniels and pianist Roger Kellaway have built their individual careers and reputations as genre-blind artists with near-unmatched technical prowess on their respective instruments, making them ideally suited as duo partners. Daniels' place in jazz history was sealed when he joined up with ...

Eddie Daniels - Roger Kellaway: A Duet of One

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 31, 2009

È un periodo felice per Roger Kellaway. Dopo anni di scarsa notorietà, anche presso la critica, il suo raffinato pianismo ha modo d'emergere e trovare i meritati consensi. Nel 2008 il disco Heroes ha vinto il “Prix du Jazz Classique" della francese Academie du Jazz, ha collaborato con Van Morrison per uno spettacolo all'Hollywood Bowl, pubblicato un eccellente album in quartetto (Live at the Jazz Standard) ed ora esce questo duo con il clarinettista Eddie Daniels, ripreso dal vivo nel ...

Eddie Daniels and Roger Kellaway: A Duet of One

by Warren Allen
February 21, 2009

In 2005, longtime collaborators Eddie Daniels and Roger Kellaway reunited at Los Angeles' Jazz Bakery to try their skills without the comfort of bass or drums. Luckily, they were up to the challenge more than ever. The result, A Duet of One, presents two musicians who blend melody and spontaneity so well that they could improvise a symphony together.

From the first moments of “I'm Getting Sentimental Over You," Daniels and Kellaway establish a foundation that only grows tighter, as ...