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Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway: Just Friends
by Dan Bilawsky
Clarinetist Eddie Daniels and pianist Roger Kellaway are more than just friends; they're musical soulmates, connected in pulse and impulse, focused on the same syncretic sum of sounds and styles, and bound by a telepathic rapport. Both men are virtuosos of the highest order, but that's beside the point. The real measure of their artistic collaborations is tied to the way they communicate and connect, not how fast they can go or how many notes each can cram into a ...
Continue ReadingEddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway: Duke at the Roadhouse: Live in Santa Fe
by Hrayr Attarian
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 ...
Continue ReadingEddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway: Duke at the Roadhouse: Live in Santa Fe
by Jack Bowers
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 ...
Continue ReadingEllingtonian Intimacy: Dukish Duos
by Dan Bilawsky
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) ...
Continue ReadingEddie Daniels / Roger Kellaway: Live at the Library of Congress
by Nic Jones
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 ...
Continue ReadingEddie Daniels / Roger Kellaway: Live At The Library Of Congress
by Dan Bilawsky
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 ...
Continue ReadingEddie Daniels - Roger Kellaway: A Duet of One
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
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