Jazz Articles about Jason Stein

About Jason Stein

Radio & Podcasts

This is our first podcast of 2019 and, to celebrate, we're discussing albums by up-and-coming artists released in the last few months. From angular art-jazz with post production flourishes to hard-core live free-form blowing and experimental bass clarinet thrusting, we've got it all--even post bop with a Christian bent! Stay tuned for Mike dissecting Bab's holiday album and Pat apologizing for his vinyl addiction. Playlist Discussion of Telepatia Liquida's self-titled album (577 Records) 4:30 Discussion of Gabriel ...

Album Review

Hearts & Minds: Electroradiance

Read "Electroradiance" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 1, 2018

It took millions and millions of years of evolution to produce dinosaurs that weighed 40 tons. Who'd have thunk it possible that those creatures are the ancestors of modern birds? Same consideration might be applied to the trio Heart & Minds. That is, if you're not into the whole creationist jazz scene. Some of those dinosaurs appeared to be a bizarre patchwork of feathers, armor, and teeth. Really big teeth. But there was an internal logic to these evolutionary adaptations, ...

Album Review

Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore: After Caroline

Read "After Caroline" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 24, 2018

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.

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The Delmark Sound: Jason Stein Quartet and Corey Dennison Band

by C. Michael Bailey
September 22, 2017

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 ...

Album Review

Jason Stein Quartet: Lucille

by Mark Corroto
September 8, 2017

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 ...

Album Review

Jason Stein, Paul Giallorenzo, Frank Rosaly: Hearts & Minds

Read "Hearts & Minds" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
March 14, 2017

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 ...

Album Review

Jason Stein: The Story This Time

Read "The Story This Time" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 11, 2012

"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 ...