Jazz Articles about Joey Baron

About Joey Baron

Album Review

Yelena Eckemoff: Better Than Gold and Silver

Read "Better Than Gold and Silver" reviewed by Tyran Grillo

by Tyran Grillo
September 29, 2018

Some albums attempt to explain sacred text. Others adorn, elevate, or dramatize it. Better Than Gold and Silver does something rarer. It listens. It waits. It receives. Yelena Eckemoff does not set the Psalms of David to music so much as she attends to them, as though all that remains is to hear what still trembles in their wake. The result is not doctrine rendered audible, but scripture softened by silence, memory, and breath. Belief here is not asserted. It ...

Album Review

Joey Baron: Just Listen

Read "Just Listen" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 14, 2013

Drummer Joey Baron and guitarist Bill Frisell have collaborated on and off for three decades, and both artists are firmly ensconced within the modern era's jazz transformation, spanning avant-garde, modern mainstream jazz, jazz-rock and so on. Frisell is a guitar hero, while Baron's far-reaching influence needs no elaboration here. This album denotes the output from a 2008 drum summit in Bonn, Germany. But as producer Stephan Andrae cites in the album notes, the program was based on “three abstract pillars ...

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Interview

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 ...

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Multiple Reviews

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. ...

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Multiple Reviews

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 ...

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Extended Analysis

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 ...

Album Review

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 ...