Jazz Articles about Wayne Krantz

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Jason Kruk: Beyond the Veil

by Glenn Astarita
September 26, 2026

Veteran New York City-based drummer and composer Jason Kruk leverages decades of technical precision and international touring into a major leap forward on Sun Goose Records. Rather than a standard rhythm showcase, his latest release is an ambitious, collaborative suite bridging structured composition and open improvisation. The album unfolds as a deeply conceptual journey through tracks named after natural elements and archetypes. Kruk anchors complex polyrhythms with a muscular yet nuanced touch, swinging seamlessly between aggressive fusion workouts ...

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Wayne Krantz trio at the Bitter End

by Tanja Momcilovic
October 22, 2025

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Dial and DeRosa: Keep Swingin'

by Jack Bowers
March 30, 2024

Keep Swingin', a splendid new album from pianist Garry Dial and drummer Rich DeRosa, features “the music of Charlie Banacos." Charlie who? you may ask. And the answer is, there are jazz educators, and then there was Charlie Banacos, whose talent and ingenuity in the classroom influenced and inspired countless jazz musicians for more than fifty years. During that time, he designed more than a hundred courses of study and wrote half a dozen books on composition and improvisation.

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Dieter Ilg, Jane Getter, Marc Guillermont, David Hines

by Len Davis
August 25, 2023

German bassist Dieter Ilg from Summer Hill, guitarist Jane Getter with Adam Holzman, French guitarist Marc Guillermont, and bassist David Hines. Brazilian drummer Cuca Texiera from Mr Motaba, multi instrumentalist Sandro Haick with Pepe Cisneros, John McLaughlin from The Heart of Things-Live in Paris. We finish the first hour with Wayne Krantz, Keith Carlock and Tim Lefebvre. Playlist Dieter Ilg “Summer Hill" from Summer Hill (Lipstick) 00:00 Jane Getter “Pressure Point" from ON (Self Produced) 07:58 Marc Guillermont ...

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Wayne Krantz: One Of Two

by Mike Jacobs
August 9, 2023

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Krantz / Carlock / Lefebvre: Touching The Stars

by Mike Jacobs
September 19, 2022

Guitarist Wayne Krantz has had a long, interesting and (some would say) iconic career. Along the way, he has reshaped his own style, delved heavily into the compositional and improvisational ends of the spectrum (often blurring the lines between them), and built a catalog that redefined what is possible both on his instrument and as a part of a group. But even in a career rife with left turns, reinventions and revolutionary periods, his KCL trio with bassist Tim Lefebvre ...

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Wayne Krantz, Mark Lettieri, Jan Hammer and Aurora Clara

by Len Davis
September 9, 2022

New York guitarist Wayne Krantz, from San Francisco Mark Lettieri, a new album from Jan Hammer Seasons 2, German drummer Anika Nilles' latest Opuntia, Aurora Clara from Spain, a classic Billy Cobham from Inner Conflicts, plus Kick The Cat and Vasil Hadzimanov Band.Playlist Wayne Krantz “U Can't Touch This" from Good Piranha Bad Piranha (Abstract Logix) 00:00 Mark Lettieri “Spark and Echo" from Spark and Echo (Ropeadope) 07:00 Jan Hammer “Summer Solstice" from Seasons 2 (Country & Eastern) ...