Jazz Articles about Joey Baron

Joey Baron: Just Say Yes

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
December 16, 2009

Combining technical acuity with a deep sense of groove, Joey Baron drums with playful exuberance. Throughout his more than 35-year career, he's propelled experimentalists like guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist John Zorn, as well as mainstreamers like vocalist Carmen McRae and saxophonist David Sanborn. He's even played with pop stars David Bowie and Marianne Faithfull. But Baron makes no distinctions between gigs, keeping an expansive, welcoming view of music. After leading the groups Barondown, Down Home, and Killer Joey, he's ...

Joey Baron: Heaven on Earth, Stolas & Dream Dance

by George Kanzler
November 7, 2009

James Carter/John Medeski/Christian McBride/Adam Rogers/Joey BaronHeaven on EarthHalf Note2009 Masada Quintet Featuring Joe LovanoStolasTzadik2009 Enrico Pieranunzi / Marc Johnson / Joey BaronDream DanceCAMJazz2009 Some drummers bring a unique personal sound and approach to everything they do, so that they are instantly recognizable, regardless of the context. ...

Joey Baron: Secrets, I Believe & Live at the Vortex

by Kurt Gottschalk
September 5, 2009

Mark Feldman / Uri Caine / Greg Cohen / Joey Baron Secrets Tzadik 2009 Daniel Zamir I Believe Tzadik 2008 Julian Siegel Trio Live at the Vortex Basho Records 2008 For a good 25 years, Joey Baron's every moment behind the drums has looked like his ...

Steve Kuhn Trio with Joe Lovano: Mostly Coltrane

by John Kelman
June 30, 2009

Although he's spent most of his career focusing on interpreting the music of others, pianist Steve Kuhn's albums for the ECM label have largely been about his small but significant repertoire of original music. Which makes Mostly Coltrane a real anomaly by comparison to earlier works like those reissued in the three-CD box set Life's Backward Glances -Solo and Quartet (ECM, 2009). Still, Kuhn has a perhaps little-known connection that makes this set of, well, mostly material either composed or ...

Antonello Salis - Joey Baron: Keys and Skins

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 22, 2008

Finalmente qualcuno li ha fatti incontrare. Questo sembra essere il commento più ovvio a un disco che riunisce due tra i più esuberanti e originali musicisti degli ultimi tempi. Ma non è solo questa la linea di congiunzione tra il Danilo Salis e Joey Baron, che effettivamente da un comune retroterra di matrice jazzistica hanno affinato l’arte della curiosità. La stessa curiosità che è all'origine di caratteri ben riconoscibili. Certo le due personalità sono ben lontane, le differenze tra i ...

Rob Price: At Sunset

by Franz A. Matzner
October 21, 2004

Jazz is no stranger to eclecticism. Musicians have been bending, breaking, reshaping, and reincorporating since the very beginning of jazz history. In fact, departing from jazz tradition might as well be the definition of jazz. If that is indeed the case, guitarist Rob Price has, with his current release, At Sunset , marked himself as a classical jazz composer and player. Combining everything from free improvisation to country, blues, and California surf music, Price has made a ...

Joey Baron: We'll Soon find Out

by Glenn Astarita
September 1, 2000

Perhaps the core, and highly noticeable component here, is that traditional groove oriented, R&B induced music, while in the hands of musicians who respectively possess distinctive voices enables the tried and true to be elevated to a higher plane. With drummer Joey Baron’s second “Songline/Tone Field” release titled We’ll Soon Find Out, these characteristics provide the winning edge, in an often huge way!

The opener, a composition titled “ Slow Charleston”, is indicative of what looms ahead. Here, alto saxophonist ...