Jazz Articles about Uri Caine

Uri Caine: Transformation, Improvisation and Context

by Paul Olson
October 9, 2006

Keyboardist/composer Uri Caine was born and raised in Philadelphia. He began playing piano at an early age, and, while still a Philadephian, played with jazz leaders like drummer “Phillie Joe Jones, bassist Jymie Merritt and trumpeter Johnny Coles. While attending the University of Pennsylvania, he studied composition with George Crumb and George Rochberg. Caine soon moved to New York City, and while he describes his early period there as “scuffling, he quickly gravitated towards the city's burgeoning downtown improvisational scenes--most ...

Paolo Fresu & Uri Caine: Things

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 24, 2006

Uno, Paolo Fresu, sta esportando da oltre vent'anni in tutto il mondo la freschezza e la qualità del jazz italiano, è titolare di progetti che esplorano un ampio spettro di interessi non solo musicali, oltre a essere la vulcanica mente del festival di Berchidda, rassegna tra le più originali e apprezzate del panorama jazzistico estivo. L'altro, Uri Caine, è stato uno dei riferimenti della scena downtown newyorchese, si è abbattuto come un ciclone sulle Variazioni Goldberg di Bach, le sinfonie ...

Uri Caine / Bedrock: Shelf-Life

by Tom Greenland
August 15, 2006

Shelf-Life, Uri Caine's seventeenth release as a leader (his thirteenth for Winter & Winter) is a continuation of the pianist/composer's earlier collaborations with drummer Zach Danziger and bassist Tim Lefebvre, particularly 2002's Bedrock. A departure from his highly individualistic reworkings of classical composers such as Mahler, Wagner, Schumann, Bach, and Beethoven, this disc recalls the Philly soul of producers Gamble and Huff, leavened with gritty New Orleans funk, envelope filter and wah-wahed phase-shifting effects á la Boosty Collins, plus the ...

Mark O'Leary / Uri Caine / Ben Perowsky: Closure

by Glenn Astarita
March 27, 2006

Irish modern jazz guitarist Mark O'Leary is on a veritable roll. With several comparatively recent releases for this distinguished UK-based jazz/improvisation record label, he has caught the attention of the global jazz community in rather expeditious fashion. On that note, O'Leary is a slick-picking instrumentalist, but unlike many of his peers, he makes every note count. Working with New York City jazz notables like pianist Uri Caine and drummer Ben Perowsky, O'Leary morphs sentiment with deft utilization of space using ...

Lindsey Horner: Don't Count on Glory

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 24, 2006

Contrabbassista flessibile e sicuramente troppo poco considerato, Lindsey Horner ha condiviso sin dagli anni Ottanta alcune importanti esperienze del jazz creativo newyorkese, a fianco di Myra Melford e di Herb Robertson, di Muhal Richard Abrams o di Bobby Previte, distinguendosi per timbro preciso e acuta sensibilità. Nelle sue prove da leader, come nel caso di questo nuovo Don't Count on Glory, l'attenzione è focalizzata sulla scrittura, con sette temi a firma propria e una rilettura di “Green Chimneys" di Thelonious ...

Mark O'Leary - Uri Caine - Ben Perowsky: Closure

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 2, 2006

Rispetto alla penultima esperienza discografica, Levitation (con Thomasz Stanko e Billy Hart), il nuovo CD del chitarrista Mark O'Leary annovera partner diversi: Uri Caine al pianoforte e Ben Perowsky alla batteria. Immutati rimangono il clima espressivo nonche' il livello di creativita' di questa incisione, anch'essa pervasa dalle medesime strategie organizzative. L'essenzialita' di un linguaggio aforistico, tutto racchiuso in brevi bozzetti, e' ancora una volta la strada condivisa dai due compagni per intraprendere un viaggio affascinante, in cui negli sviluppi solistici ...

Uri Caine: Toys

by Robert R. Calder
January 24, 2006

On balance this 1996 set--part of a series of lush, slightly unpractically packaged reissues on the German Winter & Winter label--is neither the most spontaneous nor always the most profound. Technical accomplishment it does have in spades, however. Herbie Hancock's music was a focus of Toys and the recording has been out of print for a while.

Pianist Uri Caine's reference to other composers, finding inspiration in phrases or longer compositional units, is pretty much a matter of ...