Jazz Articles about Vic Juris

Vic Juris Trio: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

by Rob Cline
May 4, 2004

The operative word in the title of the Vic Juris Trio’s new disc, While My Guitar Gently Weeps , is “gently." In fact, the album is so gentle that it's difficult to listen to—not because the music is unpleasant in any way, but rather because Juris and company fail to grab your attention. While My Guitar Gently Weeps makes excellent background music but never demands to be listened to with concentration.

The album's concept is a fairly good one. Guitarist ...

Vic Juris Quartet: Remembering Eric Dolphy

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 1, 2000

As a significant statement of its own by guitarist Vic Juris and his sympathetic ensemble, Remembering Eric Dolphy is an undeniable success. As the tribute affair its title suggests it proves to be far more illusive. For one thing, out of the ten selections only four happen to be Dolphy originals, while the rest are new compositions by Juris and reedman Dick Oatts. Although you can interpret the next point in two ways, it seems that the instrumentation is a ...

Dave Liebman: John Coltrane's Meditations

by AAJ Staff
June 1, 1998

When it comes seeing how adventurous a person is, John Coltrane's late period is one of the things that separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls. From 1965 until his death in 1967, Trane offered the most atonal of free jazz-and his music became so blistering that even some of his most ardent admirers shy away from his late period. But what frightens others is a challenge that Dave Liebman accepts with this CD, which ...