Jazz Articles about Ryan Kisor

About Ryan Kisor

Album Review

Maybe a case of just a bit too much too soon, trumpeter Ryan Kisor hit the big time and had two major label albums under his belt while still barely out of his teens. Then we heard little from him for a while before his gig at Lincoln Center started to provide some visibility. In the meantime, Kisor is no worse for the wear and he has become an even more developed player. In fact, Kisor can consider himself in ...

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Horace Silver: Jazz Has A Sense Of Humor

Read "Jazz Has A Sense Of Humor" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
November 1, 1999

Listening to any new release by Horace Silver is a lot like hearing your favourite comedian tell a joke for the umpteenth time—you know the punch line, but you laugh anyway! Since he left Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1956, Silver has written and produced a number of classic tunes that have become jazz standards. Over the years his famous quintets have always featured dynamite trumpet/tenor tandems—Blue Mitchell /Junior Cook, Woody Shaw/Joe Henderson and the Brecker Brothers—and this album is ...

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Ryan Kisor: The Usual Suspects

Read "The Usual Suspects" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
May 1, 1999

Currently Ryan Kisor is a member of the famed Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and he also spent time with the Mingus Big Band. Although this young trumpeter recorded two decent albums for Columbia in the early-90s, Minor Mutiny and On The One, that failed in the marketplace, they did demonstrate much potential for the future. If there is any justice in the jazz world, The Usual Suspects should bring Kisor the kind of attention paid to current trumpet favs Wynton ...

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Ryan Kisor: The Usual Suspects

Read "The Usual Suspects" reviewed by Douglas Payne

by Douglas Payne
February 1, 1999

Trumpeter Ryan Kisor is only 25 but The Usual Suspects is already his fourth album as a leader. He's paid his dues with the Mingus Big Band, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Pat Metheny and Gerry Mulligan and he holds his own with other such so-called young lions as Wallace Roney, Roy Hargrove and Nicholas Payton. But for his estimable talents, he's a bit too devoted to the sounds of the past.Despite its solid, straight-ahead swing, the “usual ...

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Ryan Kisor: The Usual Suspects

Read "The Usual Suspects" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
September 1, 1998

The youngest of the “young lion" trumpet phenoms, 25-year-old Ryan Kisor can certainly hold his own with such higher profile peers as Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Wallace Roney, and that Marsalis guy you hear so much about. After making two albums for Columbia in the early 1990s while still a teenager, Kisor has recorded infrequently. He has been busy, though, as a featured member of two of New York's most successful (and distinctive) large ensembles: the buttoned-down Lincoln Center Jazz ...