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Adam Shulman Septet: West Meets East

by C. Andrew Hovan
January 15, 2023

Quiet as it's kept, too many of today's finest jazz artists are given short shrift by an industry that seems to value product of a fleeting nature over true craft and a reverence for the jazz legacy. This makes it particularly challenging for a talent like Adam Shulman to break through to a wider audience. A fixture on the Bay Area scene since 2002, the pianist has a knack for accompanying singers such as Paula West and often performs as ...

Album Review

Jihee Heo: Are You Ready?

Read "Are You Ready?" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch
December 13, 2020

Since arriving in New York from Incheon, South Korea, via studies in Amsterdam, pianist/composer Jihee Heo has made a name for herself through a broad spectrum on the jazz scene in Gotham. Heo's debut album, Passion (Heonah Music, 2015), featured strong compositions and arrangements for large ensemble, with experimental elements sprinkled in the mix. With her new release, Are You Ready? , she breaks down her artistic voice to the piano trio, employing dynamic drummer Rodney Green, and bassist Marty ...

Album Review

Adam Shulman Septet: West Meets East

Read "West Meets East" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 14, 2020

The “west" here is represented by San Francisco-based pianist and group leader Adam Shulman, the “east" by the other half-dozen members of Shulman's impressive septet. Even though the reasons that led to the alliance are ambiguous, what matters is the payoff, and that is more than admirable from any vantage point. As if to mirror the ensemble's six-and-one makeup, Shulman wrote six of the album's seven engaging numbers; the seventh (the rapid-fire “Whose Blues") was composed by ...

Album Review

Rodney Green Quartet: Live At Jazzhus Montmartre

Read "Live At Jazzhus Montmartre" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
July 31, 2017

At the age of three, at the church in Camden, New Jersey, where his father was pastor, Rodney Green saw a drum kit for the first time. He stared at it, fascinated; it was so big and shiny. He thought to himself, “OK, let's play some drums." He wasn't supposed to play jazz, it was the devil's music. But he just couldn't help himself. Now Green says, “In every memory I have, I play the drums." At the ...

Album Review

Dida Pelled: A Missing Shade of Blue

Read "A Missing Shade of Blue" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
July 22, 2016

Guitarist and vocalist Dida Pelled previous Red Records release, Dida Pelled: Plays and Sings (Red Records, 2011) was one of my pics for Best-of-the-Year in 2011). That recording was so refreshingly organic that it has remained in my listening rotation since that time. Pelled snuck in a self-produced Modern Love Songs (2015) between Plays and Sings and the present A Missing Shade of Blue. It is as exceptional as the first recording. That said, expectations for A Missing Shade of ...

Album Review

Melissa Stylianou: Silent Movie

Read "Silent Movie" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 20, 2012

Silent Movie è il quarto album per Melissa Stylianou. La cantante canadese si destreggia con la sua voce vellutata e intimista tra standard di jazz e cover di classici pop, blues e folk, offrendoci un disco molto variegato ma omogeneo grazie anche ad arrangiamenti impeccabili che sanno valorizzare al meglio il suo grande talento. Basta già il brano di apertura, “Smile" di Charlie Chaplin, in cui la Stylianou riesce a far suo il pezzo trasmettendo all'ascoltatore un grande senso di ...