Jazz Articles about Sean Lennon

About Sean Lennon

Album Review

The Haas Company: Vol. 3 - Song for Mimi

Read "Vol. 3 - Song for Mimi" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 3, 2025

Steve Haas, the accomplished drummer and driving force behind The Haas Company, brings a wealth of experience and a powerful rhythmic foundation to the band's novel sound. With a career spanning decades, Haas has garnered acclaim for his technical prowess and musical versatility across jazz, fusion and rock. His leadership is central to The Haas Company's vision of pushing musical boundaries, a vision vividly realized in their collaborative projects. The band returns with their third installment, Vol. 3--Song ...

Year in Review

I Dischi del 2024 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 2, 2025

Spesso molti articoli sulle “migliori uscite dell'anno" iniziano con una premessa quasi apologetica ("questi non sono necessariamente 'i migliori album dell'anno,' ma 'i miei preferiti';" “è tutto soggettivo;" “domani avrei scelto titoli diversi;" “ho potuto selezionare solo dieci album," ecc.)? Queste dichiarazioni sembrano riflettere il disagio del redattore, costretto a riassumere un vasto ecosistema artistico selezionando “dieci fatidici" album tra migliaia, una scelta che, in teoria, dovrebbe offrire ai lettori una panoramica equilibrata e completa di una scena che, anno ...

Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2024

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 31, 2024

Have you noticed how many “best of the year" listicles start with an apologetic preamble ("these are not necessarily 'the best albums of the year' but 'my favorites';" “it's all subjective;" “tomorrow I might have chosen different titles;" “I could only select ten albums" etc.)? Those disclaimers channel the writer's discomfort of having to summarize a vast artistic ecosystem by selecting a “fateful ten" out of thousands of albums, a choice that, supposedly, should provide readers with a balanced, fair, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Sean Ono Lennon, Simon Spiess, Debby Wang, Ben Lumsdaine & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 14, 2024

The gorgeous new album by Sean Ono Lennon, Asterisms (Tzadik), opens a set of electro-acoustic otherworldly beauty.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Sean Ono Lennon “Acisalia" Asterisms (Tzadik) 0:16 Host talks 7:17 Simon Spiess Quiet Tree “Grieving Was Yesterday" Euphorbia (Intakt) 8:44 Host talks 12:50 Ben Lumsdaine “Here's Your Next Clue" Murmuration Without End (International Anthem) 14:50 Debby Wang “Fairness" Aftertaste (Self-produced) 20:42 YES! Trio feat. Ali Jackson, ...

Play This!

Sean Ono Lennon: Asterisms

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 9, 2024

Among the eagerly-awaited new releases is Sean Ono Lennon's Asterisms (Tzadik Records, 2024). When I first saw the project at The Stone in early October 2022 I was immediately struck by the enormous potential of the band and their music. Asterisms hovers over many genres and defies them all as its own thing, in a post-Bitches Brew kind of way. Plus, the band is an all-star avant-minded assemblage featuring Yuka Honda (electronics), Michael Leonhart (trumpet), Joao Nogueira (Wurlitzer), ...

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Album Review

Action Figure Party: Action Figure Party

Read "Action Figure Party" reviewed by Mike Robinson

by Mike Robinson
November 1, 2001

I thought Art Good was nuts. There, on the Sunday morning lineup of the 2001 JazzTrax Catalina Island Festival was this band, “Action Figure Party." “Action Figure Party?!"The band consists of twentysomething musicians from bands like “Garbage," “Buck Cherry," “Incubus," and “Beck." One of the musicians' names is “Flea." Another goes by “Yogi," and a third, with the more-promising sounding name of Sean Lennon, plays... umm... turntable??While some of my friends quietly decided that maybe they ...