Jazz Articles about Franklin Kiermyer

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Franklin Kiermyer: Joy And Consequence

by Ian Patterson
March 3, 2014

The tradition. It's common jazz terminology. What does it mean, though, to be “in the tradition"? The term usually confers on the musician a stamp of authenticity and infers working knowledge of the dominant idiom, as typified by the jazz cannon. It also perhaps implies a certain orthodoxy. It's strange to think, however, that a music that has always celebrated the innovative and reified its trailblazers, places so much emphasis upon allegiance to the tradition. For drummer Franklin ...

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Franklin Kiermyer: Further

by John Kelman
March 3, 2014

The number of jazz musicians whose lives and music have been impacted by John Coltrane is truly legion; few, however, have extrapolated the exploratory space travelled by the late, great saxophonist in his final two years as intensely--and successfully--as Canadian expat, one-time New York resident and now Oslo-dwelling drummer Franklin Kiermyer. While his international profile has, for the past several years, been rather low, barring appearances like in Bergen's Natt Jazz in 2010, where he participated in an incendiary performance ...

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Franklin Kiermyer: Sanctification

by Glenn Astarita
July 1, 2000

Drummer Franklin Kiermyer continues his advocacy of later day Trane on Sanctification which also represents the first release for his new label, aptly titled, “Sunship Records”. Along with his long time working quartet of saxophonist Michael Stuart, pianist John Esposito and bassist Fima Ephron, Kiermyer once again revitalizes the spirit of John Coltrane via swirling progressions and a soaring-skyward approach amid his often swashbuckling, hard hitting and overtly strenuous polyrhythmic excursions from behind the kit.

Kiermyer’s charismatic and somewhat complex ...