Jazz Articles about Russ Johnson

Komeda Project: Crazy Girl

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 14, 2007

A quasi quarant'anni dalla scomparsa di Krzysztof Komeda, la sua musica rappresenta per i jazzmen polacchi una costante fonte d'ispirazione. Tomasz Stanko, che fu uno di suoi primi e più fedeli partner, ha ripreso più volte le sue composizioni trasfigurandole con la sua notevole personalità: dal suo primo disco da leader (Musik for K del 1970 fino al magistrale Litania, inciso per l'ECM nel 1997). Lo stesso hanno fatto Michal Urbaniak in We'll Remember Komeda, il violinista Zbigniew Seifert ed ...

Russ Johnson: Working on the Tightrope

by Paul Olson
August 22, 2005

New York trumpet player Russ Johnson's got a substantial résumé as a sideman on projects with players like Curtis Fowlkes, Johnnie Valentino, and Jenny Scheinman, but he's perhaps best known as a co-leader with Ohad Talmor in the longstanding Other Quartet. The side projects demonstrate his astonishing versatility, sensitivity and a technique that is unsurpassed by any trumpeter working today; the Other Quartet does so as well, besides showcasing some of Johnson's fine compositions--even if Talmor writes the majority of ...

Russ Johnson: Save Big

by Budd Kopman
June 23, 2005

Russ Johnson Save Big Omnitone 2005

The title of Russ Johnson's Save Big is supposed to evoke the essence of the American phrase “Save Big! in a way that is direct and to the point. What it means here in this truly wonderful and important album is this is American music; not just that jazz is American in its core, but that this is American jazz. This is not to say ...