Jazz Articles about Erik Lawrence

About Erik Lawrence

Album Review

Reid Hoyson Project Featuring Don DePaolis and Mark Lucas: Natural Gifts

Read "Natural Gifts" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 8, 2020

Natural Gifts, from Pittsburgh-based drummer/producer Reid Hoyson, offers eleven selections that deliver a very enjoyable jazz experience. The performers all emanate from Pittsburgh and the entire group shines. Like the Three-Rivers City, the session melds fine compositions, soloing and ensemble interplay. “Bottom Without a Top" launches the session with a Latin-grooved head before it opens up into a swinging section with fire-breathing solos from Jeff Bush, Erik Lawrence and J.D. Chaisson. “Dinner at the Borgia's" is, as ...

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Honey Ear Trio: Steampunk Serenade

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 22, 2011

L'iniziale “Matter of Time" ha il sapore del buon vecchio jazz che fu, una ballad voluttuosa con il sax tenore dalla voce calda e sensuale che fa sognare incontri da “mille e una notte". Ma ci sono piccole increspature, minimi scartamenti e irregolarità ritmiche che tolgono il brano da qualsiasi impasse zuccherina e presagiscono temporali in arrivo. Cosa che puntualmente accade con il successivo “Olney 60/30" una cavalcata free mitigata, si fa per dire, da un graduale slittamento verso un ...

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Album Review

Erik Lawrence: Erik Lawrence & Hipmotism

Read "Erik Lawrence & Hipmotism" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 21, 2007

Somehow, somewhere jazz fans (maybe fanatics) changed the way one could appreciate this music. Theory has it that once the music migrated up the Mississippi from New Orleans (via Louis Armstrong) to Chicago and then spread to New York that it was no longer joyful, but serious business. Who could argue? Charlie Parker had his heroin habit, Lee Morgan found that gunshot hole in his best suit, and Albert Ayler jumped into the East River. Fast forward to the 1980s ...