Jazz Articles about Victor Gould

About Victor Gould

Album Review

Although Soundtrack is the name of trumpeter Jeremy Pelt's latest album (more about that in a moment), there is another selection that more readily summarizes Pelt's lyric philosophy: “I Love Music." And while there is ample contrast, camaraderie and color on the album, there is no doubt that Pelt's clear and creative commentaries are the focal point. As for that title, “Soundtrack" is simply the name of a twenty-year-old ballad written for but never recorded by one of Pelt's earlier ...

Radio & Podcasts

Frank Wess, Eliane Elias & Victor Gould

by Joe Dimino
December 19, 2021

We begin the 730th Episode of Neon Jazz with pianist & composer Victor Gould with a song off his latest release In Our Time. We also travel down a familiar road with new music from Marc Johnson, Senri Oe, Gemma Sherry and Johnathan Blake. We also shine a spotlight on the debut release from Kansas City trumpeter Chalis O'Neal. Special shout out to my son Miles Dimino, who is a huge jazz fan, on his 17th Birthday recorded on his ...

Album Review

Victor Gould: In Our Time

Read "In Our Time" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
September 21, 2021

Over the course of his first endearing works, 2016's stunning, NPR Debut Of The Year Clockwork (New Fresh Sounds), Earthlings (Criss Cross, 2018) and the lush Thoughts Become Things (Criss Cross, 2019), pianist/composer Victor Gould has exhibited a relaxed romanticism, an unerring lilt to his music. A warm empathy that draws you into the joyful, reflective and quiet moments abounding on In Our Time. As the sum and advocate of his influences, young Gould not only has a ...

Album Review

Black Art Jazz Collective: Ascension

Read "Ascension" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
August 30, 2020

The name has obvious political resonance. Indeed, the raison d'être of the Black Art Jazz Collective, the sextet founded by Wayne Escoffery, Jeremy Pelt and Jonathon Blake in 2013, is to celebrate African American excellence on the one hand, and--not unrelated--to raise political consciousness on the other. The BAJC's debut album,Presented By The Side Door Jazz Club (Sunnyside Records, 2016) paid homage to W. E. B. Dubois and Barack Obama, while recalling, too, the history of slavery. Ascension plows a ...

Album Review

Black Art Jazz Collective: Ascension

Read "Ascension" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 24, 2020

On Ascension, the Black Art Jazz Collective, a like-minded sextet co-founded in 2012 by trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and saxophonist Wayne Escoffery to salute the artistry of their mentors and musical heroes while moving the idiom forward into the twenty-first century, is unbending in its allegiance to the straight-ahead canon espoused by the architects of modern jazz. It's a stance that gives rise to pluses and minuses. On the upside, this is splendid music, rhythmically and melodically pleasing, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Victor Gould, Eastern Rebellion, Ray Santos and More

by Joe Dimino
November 17, 2019

This week we open our show with a bright young cat that is leading the new jazz march, Victor Gould, in our mission to showcase the best and brightest in the world of jazz. From there, we shift to an elder statesman Ahmad Jamal and to others notable players on today's scene, like Champian Fulton, Andrés Vial and Rez Abbasi. A musician from London reached out to the show recently by the name of Loz Speyer and we are happy ...

Album Review

Jazzmeia Horn: Love & Liberation

Read "Love & Liberation" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
September 13, 2019

It's a big step for any singer, the move from interpreter of jazz standards to songwriter. And when you've been Grammy-nominated for a debut album of covers, as Jazzmeia Horn was with A Social Call (Prestige, 2017), the temptation must be to carry on in the same vein. Horn, however, clearly has greater ambition, as the eight originals on her follow-up attest. Not that she's thrown the baby out with the bathwater, for swing, blues, bebop, gospel and thrilling vocal ...