Jazz Articles about Quinn Sternberg

About Quinn Sternberg

Album Review

Charlie Ballantine: East by Midwest

Read "East by Midwest" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 7, 2025

A bracing guitar/bass/drums trio outing from guitarist Charlie Ballantine, East By Midwest, sounds as if it was recorded in a large, high-ceilinged warehouse with a cement floor, that floor buffed into the next dimension to a high polish, this giving the music a beautiful resonance. Retro? Think Link Wray or Dick Dale and The Deltones. Modernistic? Think John Abercrombie on some of his early ECM Records efforts. Or Neil Young and Crazy Horse Ballantine and his cohorts--drummer Dan ...

Album Review

Quinn Sternberg: Pleasant Returns

Read "Pleasant Returns" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
April 2, 2025

This is album number five from bassist Quinn Sternberg. It follows on from Walking On Eggshells (Mind Beach Records, 2023). A resident of Asheville, North Carolina, as of this writing, Sternberg returned to New Orleans for the recording. He had previously worked in the city for nearly a decade and notes that “Having not seen or played with my bandmates in close to a year, I wanted to do something that captured the joy of reconnecting with old friends through ...

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Quinn Sternberg: Cicada Songs

Read "Cicada Songs" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
July 12, 2022

On Cicada Songs, bassist Quinn Sternberg paints a dreamy portrait of a languid summer evening at home, a visit to a comfortable front porch full of snoozing dogs, meandering cats, and the natural summer serenade of its title track. The first Cicada song is “June," Sternberg and company's collective musing about what Sternberg's beloved dog named June might dream about. “June" opens with a shimmer of cymbals, like you're passing through the gossamer curtain of sleep and are ...