Jazz Articles about John Blevins

About John Blevins

Album Review

Convincente album d'esordio (prodotto dal Kneebody Shane Endsley) di un ottetto/nonetto capitanato dal trombettista e compositore John Blevins, giovane musicista attivo nel jazz, nel funk, nel folk-rock, nella classica contemporanea e presenza costante nei circuiti underground newyorchesi. Matterhorn riunisce giovani musicisti, alcuni già in evidenza con album da leader come la pianista Marta Sanchez, qui impegnata con ottimi risultati al Fender Rhodes, o il chitarrista Jeff McLaughlin, altri meno noti ma comunque portatori di entusiasmo esecutivo e freschezza di idee. ...

Album Review

John Blevins: Matterhorn

Read "Matterhorn" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
February 11, 2016

Back in the 1960s, when the music now commonly known as fusion was called “jazz-rock," the earliest bands to get plastered with said label were essentially funk and rock rhythm sections--guitar, bass, keys and drums, plus or minus congas--with a lead singer and a jazzy horn section tacked on. Think Blood Sweat and Tears, or Tower of Power, or any number of the dozens of less-familiar bands in the sub-sub-genre such as Ten Wheel Drive (with Dave Liebman), Osmosis (with ...