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Adam Armstrong
Adam has played concerts in Europe, Russia, China, Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia. His work has been heard at festivals around the world, including North Sea Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Saalfelden Festival (Austria), Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain), Aarhus International Jazz Festival (Denmark), Vinterjazz (Denmark), Montreal International Jazz Festival (Canada), Chicago Humanities Festival, New York’s J&R Festival and Winter Jazzfest, The Tri-C International Jazz Festival, Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), and Wangaratta International Jazz Festival (Australia).
Adam appears on over 80 albums, including two ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Award) winners. He has played on the soundtracks of numerous feature films, TV shows and has given master classes and workshops at institutions around the world.
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Christian Finger: Zeit Zirkel
by Mike Jurkovic
Whether German-born, New York based drummer/composer Christian Finger (Lee Konitz, Ron Carter, Donny McCaslin) is well known within this circle or that circle holds no bearing on the shape of things and the highs heard on Zeit Zirkel. Making peace with grief and rooted in resilience, space, and spirit, the music makes its way through our daily distractions and focuses our vision on something much larger than an iPhone. Choosing instead to define grief as something to be ...
Continue Reading...Eric Person: Rhythm Edge
by Mike Jurkovic
Remixed, remastered, re-upped and re-amped from its original 2007 release, Rhythm Edge (CD Baby) immediately grabs you with its free-ranged, deep- rooted soulfulness and classic vigor. A gifted, Hudson Valley gentleman, multi-reedist Eric Person's serpentine and soaring tenor, alto, soprano, and flutes are veterans of many years with Chico Hamilton, Dave Holland, the World Saxophone Quartet, Houston Person, (no relation) and a far-flung range of others (McCoy Tyner and Vernon Reid among them). Tightened by trimming ...
Continue Reading...Richard X Bennett: RXB3
by Chris May
Brooklyn-based pianist Richard X Bennett is kind of the love child of Ramsey Lewis and Norah Jones with a head stuffed full of mescaline. He has Lewis' two-fisted poppy funkiness down and Jones' gift for a melodic hook, too. The combination is enriched, one speculates, by extensive first-hand knowledge of hallucinogens. Bennett, who is by his standards conservatively attired on the front cover of this album, and even more so in the YouTube clip below, enjoys sporting ladies' leopard-skin tights ...
Continue Reading...Sila Cevikce: A New Abode
by Mark F. Turner
The art of jazz composition and improvisation are fully stated as Turkish born pianist Sila Cevikce provides some solid and noteworthy music on her debut release A New Abode. Since arriving in the U.S in 1993 she has sharpened her skills both academically at Berklee and professionally in performances with New York musicians as well as composing music for film and theater. What quickly becomes apparent is the depth, style, and articulation of Cevikce's muscial ideas which have influences from ...
Continue Reading...“The band’s not-so-secret weapon is its agile rhythm section—featuring bassist Adam Armstrong” - Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader
“Powerhouse ... soulfully and expertly performed” - All About Jazz


