Jazz Articles about Edward Perez

About Edward Perez

Album Review

Emilio Solla and La Inestable de Brooklyn: Handmade

Read "Handmade" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
July 15, 2026

As the power of artificial intelligence (AI) grows exponentially, it has begun to permeate even the highest expressions of our humanity. AI-generated art of many kinds--literary, visual, and musical--appears on screens large and small daily. Handmade, a gorgeous double album by New York-based Argentinian pianist and composer Emilio Solla, featuring his nonet Inestable de Brooklyn, seeks to build a bridge across this uncanny valley." Handmade is an apologia of the tactile," says GRAMMY-nominated Solla. “We are moving further away from ...

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Roxana Amed: Becoming Human

Read "Becoming Human" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
January 29, 2025

La vocalist Argentina Roxana Amed torna a incidere con i partner a lei più affini, quelli con cui ha registrato i primi album negli Stati Uniti: il pianista Martin Bejerano, il sassofonista, clarinettista e arrangiatore Mark Small, il bassista Edward Perez e il batterista Ludwig Afonso. Al cast s'è unito il trombonista Kendall Moore che ha scritto alcuni arrangiamenti. Registrato nell'ottobre 2023, l'album è prodotto col finanziamento “New Jazz Works" di Chamber Music America, già assegnato a Wayne ...

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Michael Eckroth Group: Human Geography

Read "Human Geography" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
November 27, 2024

Grammy-nominated pianist/composer Micael Eckroth follows up his highly acclaimed Plena (Truth Revolution Records, 2021) with the vibrant and robust Human Geography, melding the sounds of contemporary jazz with elements of Afro-Caribbean music while exploring his affinity for the Latin sound and “paying homage to the culture of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the vast amalgam that comprise jazz." An Assistant Professor of music, jazz piano at Florida International University, Eckroth's geographical location in the diverse Anglo and mixed Hispanic community of ...

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Roxana Amed: Unánime

Read "Unánime" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
November 7, 2022

La relazione tra jazz e musiche latine è quanto mai vasta e risale ai primi del Novecento ma il termine latin jazz è stato generalmente limitato alle relazioni col bacino caraibico, rese popolari dai vari Machito, Mario Bauza, Tito Puente, Chico O'Farrill eccetera. La cantante argentina Roxana Amed è tra quelle personalità musicali impegnate a ridefinire e ampliare ciò che si intende comunemente con questo termine. È un fenomeno ricco di contenuti che cresce nel tempo e ...

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Martin Bejerano: #CubanAmerican

Read "#CubanAmerican" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
October 14, 2022

A differenza dei talentuosi pianisti cubani emersi nell'ultimo decennio (ricordiamo ad esempio Dayramir Gonzalez, Fabian Almazan e Alfredo Rodríguez), Martin Bejerano è un po' meno noto al pubblico del jazz, specie in Italia. Dal 2006 guida questo trio col bassista Edward Perez e il batterista Ludwig Afonso (disco del debutto: Evolution/Revolution) ed ha proseguito con altre incisioni, alternandosi alle lunghe scritture nei quartetti di Russell Malone e di Roy Haynes. Altre collaborazioni del pianista sono state con Christian McBride, Dave ...

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Jason Palmer: Live From Summit Rock In Seneca Village

Read "Live From Summit Rock In Seneca Village" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 15, 2022

With Covid-19 generally having had its way in recent years, shuttering many venues at which jazz musicians were accustomed to performing, it is a pleasure to hear an actual concert with a real live audience--even if the group is a piano-less quartet striving to hold its listeners' interest through five extended numbers whose collective playing time is over an hour. Trumpeter Jason Palmer's ensemble was recorded outdoors in May 2021 at the historic Seneca Village site in New York City's ...

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Jason Palmer: Live From Summit Rock In Seneca Village

Read "Live From Summit Rock In Seneca Village" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 26, 2022

It must have been a feeling of great happiness and triumph in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic for musicians to actually perform for an audience. A live, in-person audience that is, not a Zoom session from a home studio. That joyous feeling is quite evident on Jason Palmer's Live From Summit Rock in Seneca Village recorded in May of 2021 in Central Park. This release is the trumpeter's third for Giant Step Arts and his fifth with ...