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Eric McPherson: Double Bass Quartet - Live
by Pierre Giroux
Drummer Eric McPherson has long been recognized as a musician who combines rhythmic ingenuity and structural awareness in any project he undertakes. With Double Bass Quartet, recorded before a quietly appreciative New York audience, McPherson has assembled an unconventional line-up of Cuban pianist David Virelles along with bassists John Hébert and Ben Street, that challenges and redefines the traditional quartet format. The ensemble's two-bass configuration immediately invites comparisons to the more exploratory aspects of jazz history, yet this is no ...
Continue ReadingJaleel Shaw: Painter Of The Invisible
by Carl Medsker
For twenty years, Jaleel Shaw has steadily built a robust career that includes a lengthy apprenticeship with Roy Haynes, steady work as an in-demand sideman and mentoring the next generation at the Manhattan School of Music. Painter Of The Invisible caps two years of significant events: Dave Holland enlisted him in his 2024 quartet along with Kris Davis and Nasheet Waits, after which he fronted a band at the 2024 Newport Jazz Festival for the first time. Then, in March ...
Continue ReadingKurt Rosenwinkel: The Next Step Band (Live at Smalls, 1996)
by Vic Albani
Nel lontano 2001 la Verve pubblicò The Next Step, vale a dire il quarto album di Kurt Rosenwinkel in qualità di leader. Il disco del celebrato chitarrista di Filadelfia venne poi votato dalla rivista Jazz Times come “il disco jazz più importante e influente del XXI secolo," poiché, si legge “The Next Step ha mandato onde d'urto in una comunità musicale esigente e ossessionata dall'innovazione e ha definito un nuovo movimento e una nuova direzione per un'intera generazione di aspiranti ...
Continue ReadingBilly Hart: Just
by Jack Kenny
"Just" is an elegant album calculated to please. More than any earlier releases on ECM, it is Billy Hart's album, The quartet has been working together for over twenty years and has rightly morphed from a collective to the one steered by Hart. The drummer has supplied his sinewy rhythmic mastery to albums across the years with Herbie Hancock, Pharoah Sanders, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner and Stan Getz. Here, Hart is both the strongest voice, the innovator and the driver ...
Continue ReadingLage Lund: Idlewild
by C. Andrew Hovan
An open and revealing format for any artist, the jazz trio offers rewards on many levels. Left in veracious hands, there is a spacious pocket that can be filled by any number of rhythmic and harmonic ideas, not to mention a freedom in melodic phrases which don't have to be constrained by strict chordal structures. On the other hand, it is the mere vulnerability of the format that can challenge all but the most seasoned musicians. With its ...
Continue ReadingLage Lund: Idlewild
by C. Andrew Hovan
An open and revealing format for any artist, the jazz trio offers rewards on many levels. Left in veracious hands, there is a spacious pocket that can be filled by any number of rhythmic and harmonic ideas, not to mention a freedom in melodic phrases which don't have to be constrained by strict chordal structures. On the other hand, it is the mere vulnerability of the format that can challenge all but the most seasoned musicians. With its ...
Continue ReadingYelena Eckemoff: Lonely Man and His Fish
by Tyran Grillo
After a run of emotionally expansive albums, pianist and composer Yelena Eckemoff once again pivots without losing her center. Reinvention has become part of her artistic language, and here it arrives with a new cast and a story told in patient detail. Kirk Knuffke appears on cornet, Masaru Koga on a flute modified with a shakuhachi mouthpiece, Ben Street on double and electric bass, and Eric Harland on drums and percussion. Together they inhabit a two-disc narrative that follows the ...
Continue ReadingEthan Iverson, Mark Turner, Ben Street, Billy Hart @ Fat Cat
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Marco Rottoli
bass, acoustic
Raúl Molina
drumsPhotos
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From: MultidirectionalBy Ben Street
Cinco y Cuatro
From: Double Bass QuartetBy Ben Street
With A Little Help From My Friends
From: BridgesBy Ben Street
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