Jazz Articles about Tivon Pennicott

About Tivon Pennicott

Album Review

There is an old-world saying that some folks are just born with an old soul. Pianist and social media conqueror Emmet Cohen--his pandemic- founded livestream, Live From Emmet's Place, has been viewed by millions across the globe--proves, positively, that the old wisdom still stands and forever will. For within the heart and soul of every jazzman and jazzwoman, the warm essence of the music's ever-painful, resilient, triumphal past resides. A compatriot who does not mind growing up alongside ...

Album Review

Jakob Dreyer: Roots and Things

Read "Roots and Things" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 10, 2026

Jakob Dreyer è un contrabbassista tedesco di quarantacinque anni di cui questo costituisce il terzo album da leader (il primo nel 2022, tutti su Fresh Sound New Talent), inciso in realtà a Mount Vernon (come innumerevoli altri, da un po' di anni a questa parte) nel marzo 2025 con un trio tutto a stelle e strisce. Lo compongono sedici brani, di cui cinque brevissimi, poche decine di secondi, col sound d'insieme fortemente caratterizzato dalla vibrafonosta Sasha Berliner. Il ...

Album Review

Jakob Dreyer: Roots and Things

Read "Roots and Things" reviewed by La-Faithia White

by La-Faithia White
March 2, 2026

Jakob Dreyer originally studying piano from age four, switched to bass at age 14. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg, Germany, where he studied both classical and jazz. He then studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory before later establishing himself as an in- demand sideman in Germany for many years, working with national artists like Gabriel Coburger Sandra Hemper and Sebastian Gillen as well as international artists like Dusko Goykovich, Nils Landgren ...

Album Review

Jakob Dreyer: Roots and Things

Read "Roots and Things" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 27, 2025

Bassist Jakob Dreyer searched for a new sound for his third album as a leader. He has, for his previous two releases, expressed his art via the standard quartet--sax, bass, drums and piano. For Roots and things, the piano is replaced by Sasha Berliner's vibraphone, joining the leader's other new-to-the-fold sidemen, saxophonist Tivon Pennicott and drummer Kenneth Salters.A vibraphone in the group is an inspired choice. The instrument is seeing a 2024/2025 resurgence. Blue Note Records, in particular, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Tivon Pennicott, Louis Cole, KAMA Kollektiv, Louise van den Heuvel & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 3, 2024

Enjoy an episode built along an ideal bridge between Amsterdam and New Amsterdam, with a special focus on the launch of FOOD, a new New York-based label (as well as live events production company, and soon to be brick-and-mortar restaurant) inspired by the storied, artist-run cafe of 1970's SoHo of the same name.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Louis Cole, Metropole Orkest, Jules Buckley “Things Will Fall Apart" ...

Album Review

Emmet Cohen: Vibe Provider

Read "Vibe Provider" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
August 19, 2024

All round shaman, musical advocate, and positive vibe provider, Nigerian-born Michael Olufunmilola (Funmi) Ononaiye (1968-2023) was known and beloved by everyone in the artistic and social circles of Manhattan's music scene. He was an A&R rep at Atlantic Records. He was a DJ, percussionist, and chief programmer at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He had a deep effect on everyone. That effect can be viscerally felt on the way-too-good, Vibe Provider. It sails. It sweeps in on a hop ...

Album Review

Kaisa’s Machine: Taking Shape

Read "Taking Shape" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
July 20, 2023

On her captivating second release, Taking Shape, Finnish bassist Kaisa Mäensivu demonstrates her singular talents as a composer and a bandleader. She is again at the helm of her cohesive group, Kaisa's Machine. It has been six years since her debut, years during which she established herself in her new hometown of New York. Her writing has transformed as she draws inspiration from the vibrancy of the city on this set of originals. Mäensivu sets the album's mood ...