Jazz Articles about Kerry Politzer

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Kerry Politzer Quartet: Labyrinth

by John Kelman
September 17, 2005

For her third outing as a leader, pianist/composer Kerry Politzer ups the ante by working with a couple of players who, while not exactly household names, have some cachet in the New York community. Chris Higgins, a lithe bassist with a tone not unlike Dave Holland's, may be as relatively unknown as Politzer, but saxophonist Andrew Rathburn has been establishing a reputation on a number of superb records for Spain's Fresh Sound New Talent label--both as a writer of cerebral ...

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Kerry Politzer: Watercolor

by Javier AQ Ortiz
August 1, 2002

Quick and to the Point : Classy jazz trio music.

Watercolor features a happy coincidence between title and content. According to the Tallahassee Watercolor Society , the “fleeting effects of nature" are best captured through watercolor's “inherent luminosity" and “capacity for rapid execution." The Jazzification of Classical aesthetics one finds in this oeuvre is conceived from conceptual and technical akin views and practices present in both the histories of jazz and watercolor, and well represented herein. A quick ...

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Kerry Politzer: Yearning

by Javier AQ Ortiz
July 23, 2002

Quick and to the Point: Deserving jazz with a Brazilian unction.

Yearning is appropriately entitled and represented through the hands and intellect of Kerry Politzer. A yen to get down and just play –that is what she seems to be all about. One cannot be misled by the maternally peaceful and tender countenance offered in the cover as visual representation of her craft. She is a fiery player, even when the flames are tamed by early musical ...

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Kerry Politzer: Yearning

by Dave Nathan
September 1, 2001

A graduate of the New England Conservatory, Kerry Politizer has selected her own compositions for the play list for her debut album. Many of the tunes have a Brazilian bent to them which the quartet feels right at home with. The major players on this set with Politzer, are reed player Eric Rasmussen and strong guitarist, Pete Smith. It's clear that Politzer understands that it is sometimes better to get in and say what you have to say quickly and ...

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Kerry Politzer: Yearning

by Jim Santella
September 1, 2001

Her session of originals contains a lovely Brazilian tinge. From the modern mainstream, pianist Kerry Politzer exposes her trio to lively samba rhythms and saucier twists that tug this way and that. Percussive in nature, her keyboard mastery echoes the natural spirit that accompanies street festivals and other celebrations of life. To that formula, Politzer adds pieces, such as “Aardvark," that fuse jazz's modern mainstream with international concepts. A strong classical music education and her jazz concentration at the New ...