Jazz Articles about John Isley

About John Isley

Album Review

Bob Dee's Cosmosis releases New Moon as an instrumental album that explores modern creative jazz with soulful undertones. Led by guitarist and composer Bob Dee, the project features seven tracks that blend exploratory melodies with rhythmic depth, displaying the group's considerable technical abilities. The opener “Prajñā," sets a radiant tone with John Isley's luscious flute lines amid the leader's melodic jazz soloing and the quasi-Latin undertones from drummer Greg Joseph and Michael Bates' walking bass lines. The arrangement ...

Album Review

Funk Shui NYC: Shark NATO on a Plane

Read "Shark NATO on a Plane" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 21, 2020

While some older listeners (and younger ones as well) may be thrown slightly off-kilter and find it hard to apprehend exactly what Funk Shui NYC is about, it must be conceded that the New York-based ensemble in all likelihood represents the future of big-band jazz, or at least a sizeable and assertive chunk of it. The name itself offers an explicit clue, as Funk Shui is indeed heavy on the funk (rather less on the shui, whatever that is), as ...