Jazz Articles about Lex Korten

About Lex Korten

Live Review

Lex Korten Close Up Canopy Release Show New York, NY September 19, 2025 Pianist and composer Lex Korten has been an ascendent force in the modern jazz world for several years and his appearance at Close Up represented a milestone moment for the young artist. Korten was celebrating the release his first full-length album of original material, Canopy (Sounderscore Records, 2025). From September 18th-19th, he, alongside a formidable ensemble of likeminded artists ...

Album Review

Simon Moullier: Elements of Light

Read "Elements of Light" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 27, 2025

Nel quinto disco da leader, il vibrafonista francese--da tempo residente negli Stati Uniti--torna a proporre molte sue composizioni, come aveva fatto in Spirit Song, il debutto del 2020. Per l'occasione Simon Moullier sostituisce anche l'organico, confermando solo Jongkuk Kim, l'emergente batterista coreano che lo segue dall'album d'esordio. Il nuovo quartetto comprende il talentuoso giovane pianista Lex Korten (allievo di Benny Green e visto di recente con Tyshawn Sorey, Jaleel Shaw, Melissa Aldana) e il bassista Rick Rosato, (già ...

Album Review

Nicola Caminiti: Vivid Tales of a Blurry Self-Portrait

Read "Vivid Tales of a Blurry Self-Portrait" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
September 27, 2024

È un debutto da leader impressionante quello del sassofonista Nicola Caminiti che sta ottenendo riconoscimenti dalla stampa specializzata statunitense ed europea. Siciliano di nascita e formazione, Caminiti s'è diplomato nel 2015 al conservatorio di Messina, ha proseguito gli studi alla Manhattan School of Music dove ha conseguito il Bachelor's of Music in sassofono Jazz nel 2019 studiando con Dayna Stephens, Stefon Harris, Vincent Herring e altri. Nicola ha vinto numerosi premi e suonato in vari festival italiani ...

Album Review

Karl-Henrik Ousbäck: Confluence

Read "Confluence" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 21, 2023

Drummers do not always get the respect they deserve and yet, in a jazz context, their contributions are an integral part in the overall success of the music. Aside from genre leaders such as Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, and Art Blakey, relatively few drummer-led sessions have entered into the upper echelon of recorded jazz history. However, those who cast a wider net will probably remember that drummers Art Taylor, Bill English, Grady Tate, Joe Chambers, and Roy Brooks ...

Album Review

Eshed Korten Biolcati Kim: A Way Out

Read "A Way Out" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
February 12, 2021

One of the more exciting scenarios in jazz unfolds when a group of players comes together, not to realize one individual's specific vision, but just for the sake of making music together and to develop a chemistry which, ideally, was there from the beginning. The group effort here presents the fruits of such an occasion. A Way Out captures a contemporary jazz quartet that's in it for the joy of playing together. Forming the band name under which ...

Album Review

Linda Sikhakhane: An Open Dialogue

Read "An Open Dialogue" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 25, 2020

When tenor saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane released Two Sides, One Mirror (Skay Music, 2017), it was a statement of arrival, marking his ascendancy within the jazz ranks in his native South Africa, and departure, signaling a move to the United States that would result in studies with tenor saxophonist Billy Harper, trumpeter Charles Tolliver, bassist Reggie Workman and a host of other greats at The New School. This eagerly awaited follow-up, recorded as part of his senior recital at that venerable ...