Jazz Articles about Frank Kimbrough

About Frank Kimbrough

Album Review

La prematura scomparsa di Frank Kimbrough nel dicembre del 2020 ha lasciato un grande vuoto nel jazz in termini di spessore umano, valore artistico e apertura mentale. La pubblicazione di questo CD postumo è quindi l'occasione giusta per riassaporarne il talento pianistico, che ha anche illuminato la discografia di Maria Schneider e The Herbie Nichols Project di cui era cofondatore. Ascoltare un album di Frank Kimbrough è sempre un'esperienza emozionante, che tocca le corde più recondite del cuore ...

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Ryan Truesdell: Shades of Sound

Read "Shades of Sound" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
June 2, 2025

Shades of Sound costituisce il secondo volume del Gil Evans Project di Ryan Truesdell, inciso dal vivo al Jazz Standard di New York. Data d'incisione e organico sono gli stessi di Lines of Color, il primo volume registrato dal 13 al 18 maggio 2014 con una formazione di 23 musicisti più il leader, scelti tra i solisti più brillanti di New York: i sassofonisti Donny McCaslin, Dave Pietro, Steve Wilson, i trombettisti Mat Jodrell e Greg Gisbert, i trombonisti Ryan ...

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Ryan Truesdell / Gil Evans Project: Shades Of Sound

Read "Shades Of Sound" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
May 30, 2025

Shades of Sound is not about Ryan Truesdell recreating the past. There are excellent reasons to listen to recreations of the music of Gil Evans. As critic Bill Mathieu wrote of Evans, “The mind reels at the intricacy of his orchestral and developmental techniques. His scores are so careful, so formally well-constructed, so mindful of tradition that you feel the originals should be preserved under glass in a Florentine museum" (Mathieu in Max Harrison, Jazz Profiles, 2011). Evans ...

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Ryan Truesdell: Shades Of Sound

Read "Shades Of Sound" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
May 22, 2025

Ryan Truesdell's Shades of Sounds: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard Vol. 2 is a triumphant continuation of his lovingly curated Gil Evans Project--a musical venture focusing on both preservation and revelation. With this latest volume, Truesdell guides us through Evans' well-known sonic landscape and deeper into the vaults, unearthing four never-before-recorded arrangements that offer a renewed understanding of the composer's nuanced brilliance. Truesdell's decision to record live at Jazz Standard is both philosophical and ...

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Frank Kimbrough: The Call

Read "The Call" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 9, 2025

Pianist Frank Kimbrough's untimely passing--on December 30, 2020--left a void in the world. Nothing can or ever will fill it, but his work and influence sound eternal, resonating and rippling across space and time. Kimbrough still has plenty to show us and teach us about the beauty inherent in the art of pianistic elocution, melodic variation, harmonic depth, human touch and reflective improvisation. And that's made evident on this previously unreleased solo session. On July 19, 2010, ...

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Frank Kimbrough: Frank Kimbrough 2003 - 2006

Read "Frank Kimbrough 2003 - 2006" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
August 15, 2022

Frank Kimbrough, who died in December 2020, was a pianist of passionate originality, whose playing can be defined by an ease of technique coupled with a flow of ideas and meticulous execution. This current release, Frank Kimbrough 2003-2006, features newly mixed and remastered versions of the pianist's 2003 album Lullabluebye and the 2006 follow-up release Play. These albums were thought to be representative of a particularly productive period in his career. On Lullabluebye, Kimbrough is accompanied ...

Radio & Podcasts

Celebrating The Work Of Frank Kimbrough

by Bob Osborne
August 11, 2022

Pianist, composer, and educator Frank Kimbrough was a revered presence on the New York jazz scene for nearly 35 years prior to his untimely death in December 2020. This show celebrates his life and work. Due out August 12, 2022 with LPs following, a new collection Frank Kimbrough 2003-2006 brings together 2003's Lullabluebye, featuring long-time collaborators bassist Ben Allison and drummer Matt Wilson (drums); and the 2005 follow-up, Play, boasting a new trio with the then relatively unknown bassist Masa ...