Jazz Articles about Tarbaby

About Tarbaby

Album Review

For their fourth album, the collective trio Tarbaby maintain their simultaneously tradition orientated but forward looking aesthetic. At the heart remains the piano of Orrin Evans, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Nasheet Waits. But from the start they have been open to change. As a consequence only one of their releases features the three principals alone. And Fanon continues that pattern with the inclusion of special guests saxophonist Oliver Lake, (who has a history of collaboration with the band) and ...

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Album Review

Tarbaby: The End Of Fear

Read "The End Of Fear" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 27, 2010

Virtually every musician deals with fear at one time or another. Perhaps it comes with a first opportunity to perform in an ensemble, or maybe it arrives when first taking flight and leaving the relative comforts of written music, searching for an elusive sound through an improvised medium. Regardless of when it happens, performers have to learn to work through this fear to reach a new level of comfort and artistry in music. The trio known as Tarbaby--pianist Orrin Evans, ...

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Album Review

Tarbaby: The End Of Fear

Read "The End Of Fear" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
October 26, 2010

A band name that some might see as confrontational--although the band denies this--an album title that could be wildly optimistic, a statement of faith or simply ironic; some of the fieriest jazz players on the scene and a scary Hieronymus Bosch-style cover design. What kind of music might emanate from such a combination? Free form, loud, frenetic, aggressive? Yes, but this magnificent, multilayered album offers much more. While the packaging--name, title, image--might suggest a set of hard-hitting, ...