Jazz Articles about Jason Lindner

The Jason Lindner Big Band: Live at the Jazz Gallery

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 14, 2008

Insieme alla Vanguard Jazz Orchestra e all'orchestra di Maria Schneider, l’ensemble fondato e diretto dal pianista Jason Lindner costituisce la punta di diamante del jazz orchestrale odierno. Una formazione duttile e flessibile, che si avvale di una cifra compositiva originale, pensata sull’esempio ellingtoniano in funzione della specifica personalità artistica dei solisti. Incisi nell’anno (2005) che segna il decennale della sua costituzione, questi due CD restituiscono tutta la fantasia di una big band davvero straordinaria, che ha come punti di forza ...

The Jason Lindner Big Band: Live At The Jazz Gallery

by Greg Camphire
September 7, 2007

Keyboardist Jason Lindner has been a staple of the New York jazz scene for some time now, working in a variety of capacities for different projects; but his distinctive musical character shines brightest through his long-running big band, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2005, when Anzic Records' Live At The Jazz Gallery was recorded. Evoking the large ensemble works of Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Gil Evans, as well as Randy Weston and Horace Tapscott, Lindner ...

The Jason Lindner Big Band: Live At The Jazz Gallery

by Mark F. Turner
August 29, 2007

If you think that jazz composition for large ensembles is out of touch with the current music environment then listen to pianist/composer Jason Lindner's Live At The Jazz Gallery. Like contemporaries Maria Schneider with Sky Blue (ArtistShare, 2007) and Guillermo Klein's Una Nave (Sunnyside Records, 2005); Lindner breathes new life into the historically informed “big band sound with fresh ideas culled from the diverse sounds of New York City and global music influences. Lindner's chameleon-like persona has ...

Jason Lindner: Ab Aeterno

by Terrell Kent Holmes
December 17, 2006

The defining track on Jason Lindner's excellent Ab Aeterno isn't an original composition, it's a medley of two Bud Powell tunes: “Sure Thing and “Glass Enclosure. Powell balanced bebop and classical idioms wonderfully on these songs and showed that even if the two kinds of music were distant relatives, they still shared a common language. Lindner expands on this idea throughout Ab Aeterno by blending various styles of world music within a jazz context, thus building a complete intertextuality.

Jason Lindner: Live/UK

by Tom Greenland
October 16, 2005

Jazz people like to catch a buzz. Used to be you could grab a quick six-pack and duck into Smalls, a Greenwich Village venue run by Mitch Borden that literally hummed with world class talent-deserving-of-wider-recognition. Amidst this beehive of activity, Jason Lindner was always a contender, and New Yorkers in-the-know knew it was only a matter of time before others caught on. The pianist's latest release, Live/UK, gives out-of-towners a chance to hear what the local buzz is all about. ...

Jason Lindner: Live/UK

by John Kelman
March 2, 2004

Following his 2000 little big band recording, Premonition (Concord), pianist Jason Lindner took a quartet to Europe, recording Live/UK at the prestigious Pizza Express club in London, England. That it has taken nearly three years for this recording to see the light of day is curious but, regardless, it was well worth the wait.

Lindner, a fixture on the New York scene since the mid-1990s, continues to demonstrate his intriguing take on Latin and Afro-Cuban music by placing these styles ...

Jason Lindner: Premonition

by AAJ Staff
September 1, 2000

It seems that Smalls in New York City is becoming one of the primary jazz incubators of the millennium, in the same manner but maybe not in the same degree as Minton's or Monroe's in the 1940's. Many of the newer, and more experimental, musicians are finally attaining recognition for the work that they debuted at Smalls. In addition, some of the more recent additions to the vocabulary of jazz rose to recognition there.That's certainly the case with ...