Jazz Articles about Jacob Sacks

About Jacob Sacks

Album Review

Trombonist Jacob Garchik has an interest in musical subtraction. His 2012 release The Heavens: The Atheist Gospel Trombone Album (Yestereve Records) presented religious music stripped of religion. Clear Line (Yestereve Records) from 2020 featured a 13-piece big band with no rhythm section. Now comes Assembly, an inquiry into what a jazz quintet sounds like when added to itself. Garchik declares both method and intent in his song titles; the first three cuts are “Collage," “Pastiche" and “Bricolage." The ...

Album Review

Jacob Garchik: Assembly

Read "Assembly" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 28, 2022

As a consequence of the global pandemic, we have been schooled in the science of virology. Under certain conditions viruses mutate and reorganize into something completely new. That is bad. Mutations can also be heard in the adventurous music of Jacob Garchik. That is good. His trombone leads his Atheist Gospel Trombone Album, his big band, plus Banda de los Muertos, a Mexican brass band. He can be heard in ensembles lead by Anna Webber, Henry Threadgill, Mary Halvorson, John ...

Album Review

Tom Rainey Obbligato: Untucked In Hannover

Read "Untucked In Hannover" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 5, 2021

Tom Rainey Obbligato is drummer Rainey's jazz standards group. Untucked In Hannover is the first live album of a triptych. It follows Obbligato (2014) and Float Upstream (2017), both on Intakt Records. Great American Songbook tunes hammered and bent and stretched away from expectations into new shapes is the name of the game, an approach which runs parallel to that of Lee Konitz, especially the alto saxophonist's late career outings, including Live At the Blue Note (Half Note, 2012) and ...

Album Review

Ohad Talmor: Long Forms

Read "Long Forms" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 20, 2021

New York City-based tenor saxophonist, composer, arranger Ohad Talmor and associates provide all the 'jazz' news fit to hear on this superb effort, comprised of thorny time signatures, shifting detours and offbeat mini-grooves, enamored with the leader's whizzing solos and more goodness. Acclaimed due to his arrangements for the late sax great Lee Konitz and affiliations with top-shelf musicians on a global basis, Talmor's multidirectional works often proceed with a semblance of micro-suites, embedded with simmering, odd-metered passages, and fluctuating ...

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Ohad Talmor Newsreel: Long Forms

Read "Long Forms" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
July 27, 2020

Maturato accanto a Lee Konitz con cui ha inciso vari dischi in tre distinti progetti (il nonet del grande sax contralto, il Konitz-Talmor String Project e la big band a loro nome), Ohad Talmor è tra gli esponenti più creativi della sua generazione. La sua statura di compositore, supportata dalla formazione classica e dall'interesse per molte espressioni musicali, caratterizza il suo impegno nelle varie formazioni che guida: il trio, il sestetto, in nonetto e la big band. ...

Album Review

Jacob Sacks: Fishes

Read "Fishes" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 4, 2019

Quintetto molto interessante quello allestito da Jacob Sacks, talentuoso pianista newyorchese che in Fishes riunisce alcuni dei musicisti più rappresentativi di quella città. Interessante perché lungi dall'essere una prova di forza (come la presenza dei due fiati poteva far supporre) o una celebrazione delle spiccate personalità dei componenti del gruppo (tutti titolari di importanti formazioni), Fishes emerge come uno splendido ritratto di Sacks raffinato compositore, originale pianista e stimolante leader. Le undici composizioni appaiono come miniature, a ...

Radio & Podcasts

Piotr Baron, Benjamin Deschamps & More

by Maurice Hogue
January 2, 2019

Pianist Jacob Sacks summoned some of the best musicians he could find to create Fishes, his latest release for Clean Feed. Saxophonists Ellery Eskelin and Tony Malaby, bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Dan Weiss tackle Sack's quirky compositions and ideas and the result is a great recording. Also in this episode, music from a live performance by Polish saxophone great Piotr Baron, complete with an intro by the president of the Czech Republic, new tunes from Montreal's Benjamin Deschamp, and ...