Jazz Articles about Jay Anderson

Lynne Arriale: Live At Montreux

by Craig Jolley
October 1, 2000

Least likely titles at the Tower listening post: “Come Shmooze with Me--Lynne Arriale's Tribute to Ol' Blue Eyes." “Arriale Plays Dead--The Music of Jerry Garcia."

Lynne Arriale does not look for the easy way out. Her piano technique would allow her to crank out “songbook" CD's that could easily compete with all the others. Instead she selects tunes her trio can do something with. They slow “Evidence" ("Just You, Just Me" if you're keeping score at home) down to a ...

Paul Bley: Notes On Ornette

by C. Andrew Hovan
August 1, 2000

These are the tunes that have become the stuff of legend. And don’t just take it from this reviewer, ask Pat Metheny and countless others who have found something to say in the early compositions of Ornette Coleman. Either because he was on the West Coast working with Coleman and Don Cherry at the time or because he sees their inherent greatness too, pianist Paul Bley has chosen from the Ornette canon pieces dating from the late ‘50s for this ...