Jazz Articles about Erik Charlston

About Erik Charlston

New York Beat

Erik Charlston and JazzBrasil, a sextet from his CD Essentially Hermeto (Sunnyside) came to Café Wha for a one set offering of their music on Sunday June 28. Charlston has gained wide attention for his knowledge and performances of the music of Hermeto Pascoal. This illustrious composer/ musician/producer from Lagoa da Canoa, Alagoas, whose genius has been woefully neglected by American jazz writers, stands at the very top rung of Brazilian music and, through the years, the few times that ...

Album Review

Erik Charlston: JazzBrasil

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 15, 2012

Come si evince dal titolo, JazzBrasil è un album incentrato sulla musica brasiliana, con un'attenzione particolare alla figura del compositore Hermeto Pascoal, dal repertorio del quale vengono interpretati sei degli otto brani in scaletta, scelti dal vibrafonista Erik Charlston per il suo debutto come leader. Charlston indaga insieme alla propria band - sestetto caratterizzato da dinamicità ritmica - una via espressiva molto lineare. Il leader la disegna con il vibrafono o con la marimba, senza allontanarsi mai troppo da un ...

Album Review

Erik Charlston JazzBrasil: Essentially Hermeto

Read "Essentially Hermeto" reviewed by Matt Cibula

by Matt Cibula
April 6, 2012

Erik Charlston is not shy about revealing his main influence. Not only did he title this album Essentially Hermeto after the Brazilian multi-instrumentalist/composer/mystic Hermeto Pascoal, he even starts the first track with the kind of rustling ambient sound that Pascoal loves so much. Unlike Pascoal himself, who might use that sound for a few minutes or an entire track, Charlston moves pretty quickly into “Vale de Ribeira"--like most of the selections on the album, a Hermeto Pascoal song. A straightforward ...

Album Review

Erik Charlston JazzBrasil: Essentially Hermeto

Read "Essentially Hermeto" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 25, 2012

No musical expedition to Brazil can be complete without a reverent doffing of the proverbial hat as the traveling musicians make an essential stop at Barrio Jabour, the place where the great Hermeto Pascoal lives. This is what vibraphonist and marimba artist Erik Charlston did. Fortuitously, he captured the resident and hovering spirits in the splendid Essentially Hermeto. This is an album of songs resplendent in the feelings of unbridled alegria; of joy, as they say, no matter where in ...