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Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore: After Caroline
by Mark Corroto
By 2018 he doesn't have to do it. Do what? Prove himself, and maybe also demonstrate the bass clarinet worthy of leading an ensemble. Jason Stein has the bona fides these days, proof being his much admired quartet and trio Locksmith Isidore. His trio was the opening act for his sister, comedian Amy Schumer's 10,000-seat arena tour the past few years and some of that rock star juju clings to After Caroline, the fourth release by Locksmith Isidore.
Continue ReadingThe Delmark Sound: Jason Stein Quartet and Corey Dennison Band
by C. Michael Bailey
Delmark Records has been a Chicago institution for better than 60 years, most under the watchful eye of founder Bob Koester. The label remains the oldest jazz and blues record label operating in the United States. Like its fabled successor, ECM, the label sports a sonic world all its own. While an odd comparison, any jazz enthusiast breathing air recognizes and understands the “ECM Sound." Demark has a similar distinctive sound. No, it is not that light and vaporous atmosphere ...
Continue ReadingJason Stein Quartet: Lucille
by Mark Corroto
Jason Stein continues to curve a niche in the jazz world, but it's not what you might assume. Listeners straightaway assume that he is an idiosyncratic outlier because his sole instrument is the bass clarinet. We've grown accustomed to saxophonists like Eric Dolphy and David Murray doubling on the bass clarinet. Stein's constancy to this one woodwind instrument, like Germany's Rudi Mahal, is unequivocal, yet the sound of the instrument doesn't define his trajectory.Stein plots an unconventional and ...
Continue ReadingJason Stein, Paul Giallorenzo, Frank Rosaly: Hearts & Minds
by Vincenzo Roggero
Il clarinetto basso di Jason Stein, i sintetizzatori e le pianole di Paul Giallorenzo, la batteria e le diavolerie elettroniche di Frank Rosaly sono l'insolita miscela che accende i motori di Hearts & Minds album ad alto gradiente di ottani di questo trio che aggiunge un ulteriore tassello all'effervescente scena musicale di Chicago. Piace l'estrema libertà con la quale i tre giocano a (s)combinare i fattori a disposizione, a mischiare acustico ed elettrico, a cambiare le carte ...
Continue ReadingJason Stein: The Story This Time
by AAJ Italy Staff
"Background Music" ci elettrizza con il suo fast-tempo bruciante e con i percorsi zigzaganti di clarinetto basso e sax tenore. Sono nipotini di Lee Konitz e Warne Marsh, questi audaci Jason Stein e Keefe Jackson: ne trasformano le sonorità ma ne conservano l'aplomb intellettuale e il distacco da terra. Un po' tutto l'album, che alterna composizioni di Stein a perle di Monk, Marsh e Tristano, mantiene questa andatura “cool," innervata da iniezioni di libera improvvisazione radicale, con una lucidità strutturale ...
Continue ReadingJason Stein Quartet: The Story This Time
by Nic Jones
The two horns, bass and drums quartet is becoming a commonplace grouping even though it hasn't quite reached the saturation point of the piano-bass-drums trio. A consequence of this instrumentation is the obvious decline in novelty value and, indeed, the ability to catch the ear, but this is a leader and group only too aware of that, which explains why this is such a fresh body of music. Jason Stein also plays the bass clarinet exclusively, which in a sense ...
Continue ReadingJason Stein: In Exchange for a Process
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non capita tutti i giorni di imbattersi in un'incisione di solo clarinetto basso, strumento che siamo abituati ad acoltare in genere in formazioni più allargate. Sentirlo così, messo a nudo e spogliato del suo contorno, dà una sensazione inconsueta. Ma il giovane Jason Stein (classe '76) sa già il fatto suo, forte dell'esperienza nell'ambito della nuova scena jazz di Chicago (ha fatto parte dell'ensamble post-free Bridge 61) approccia questo lavoro in solitario con la grinta e la fantasia necessarie per ...
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