Jazz Articles about Jay Rodriguez

About Jay Rodriguez

Album Review

The Haas Company Vol 1: Galactic Tide Featuring Andy Timmons

Read "Galactic Tide Featuring Andy Timmons" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 31, 2024

Buckle up, space cowboys, because The Haas Company's Galactic Tide Vol. 1 featuring gifted guitarist Andy Timmons is a genre-bending journey that blasts off from the first note. Led by the versatile and visionary drummer, Steve Haas this project looms as a testament to his innovative spirit and musical prowess. Haas, a seasoned musician, has brought together an extraordinary ensemble to explore the vast realms of fusion., Timmons, a guitar virtuoso known for his fiery technique, is the ...

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Will Bernard: Freelance Subversives

Read "Freelance Subversives" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
May 13, 2020

A native Californian currently headquartered in Brooklyn, Will Bernard's geographical touchpoints mirror the expanse of solo and collaborative projects to which he's contributed over the course of his career. Just a few of the names appearing in his discography are also indicative of the guitarist's broadly eclectic approach: eccentric singer/composer Tom Waits, drummer extraordinaire Stanton Moore and guitar wunderkind Charlie Hunter. And dating back to Will's membership with the latter in T.J. Kirk (with drummer Scott Amendola), there's been a ...

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The Cry of Jay Rodriguez

by Michael Blake
April 11, 2018

On an unseasonably warm February evening I set out from Brooklyn to catch the multi-instrumentalist Jay Rodriguez's band at Le Poisson Rouge. While walking from the West 4th Street subway station to the venue on Bleecker Street I recalled taking this exact route over 30 years ago to play a jam session in the same space, back when it was called The Village Gate. A remaining sign of The Gate is the original corner marquee out front above a CVS.