Mark Ferber

Jody Redhage Ferber / Alan Ferber / Mark Ferber: Confluence

by Dan Bilawsky
July 18, 2025

Cellist Jody Redhage Ferber has been at the forefront of creative music for two decades, effectively straddling the line between jazz and classical settings. Her husband, celebrated trombonist Alan Ferber, is one of this genre's premiere large group composers, having garnered multiple Grammy nominations and topped polls with both his nonet and big band. His twin brother, ace drummer Mark Ferber, has long been a first call to both jazz stars and up-and-comers. Together, these three have experienced personal and ...

Michael Attias: Quartet Music Vol I: LuMiSong & Vol II: Kardamon Fall

by John Sharpe
April 8, 2025

Saxophonist Michaël Attias has impressed on the NYC scene for over three decades. He has recorded with Paul Motian, Anthony Braxton and Taylor Ho Bynum, while artists like Eric Revis, Anthony Coleman and Kris Davis have covered his compositions. But despite such recognition, Attias's discography undeservedly languishes in single figures. His decision to issue two volumes of quartet music, Lumisong and Kardamon Fall, available separately or together in a single package, represents the next step in his evolution ...

Marc Copland Quartet: Dreaming

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 25, 2025

Si pone per così dire al centro del guado questo quartetto del settantaseienne pianista di Filadelfia Marc Copland, qui (il quartetto) al suo secondo album dopo Someday (2022, stessa etichetta). Il guado è la centralità dell'idioma jazzistico proposto, in bilico (in equilibrio, forse più correttamente) fra rispetto per il déjà écouté, tratti originali e sete di ricerca. Qui, magari, le percentuali pendono più verso il primo aspetto che verso gli altri due, però tutto è condotto in porto con estremo ...

Marc Copland: Dreaming

by Dan McClenaghan
February 5, 2025

Jazz man Marc Copland is known primarily for his piano albums, solo and trio outings. He is considered by some, rightly so, as the premier jazz pianist of our day, closer to the supple touch and refined harmony of Bill Evans than the bouncing, joyous near-bombast of Bud Powell. But he is no stranger to playing with horns, teaming with trumpeter Ralph Alessi on Zenith (InnerVoice Jazz, 2015), saxophonist Dave Liebman on Contact (Pirouet Records, 2015) and saxophonist Greg Osby ...

Christopher Zuar Orchestra: Exuberance

by Angelo Leonardi
December 30, 2024

È decisamente un periodo d'oro per l'orchestrazione jazz. Ai molti bandleader e arrangiatori emersi nel nuovo millennio, si aggiunge decisamente Christopher Zuar, che firma il secondo album confermando le doti espresse in Musings (Sunnyside), il debutto di otto anni fa. Con un diploma al New England Conservatory e un master alla Manhattan School of Music, Zuar aggiunge una spiccata fantasia nell'arricchire il modern mainstream orchestrale di nuove suggestioni. Questo progetto è stato concepito tra il 2017 e ...

Christopher Zuar Orchestra: Exuberance

by Jack Bowers
December 23, 2024

Composer/arranger Christopher Zuar's second album, Exuberance, recounts in musical terms a twisting yet picturesque journey that began seven years earlier, in 2017, when Zuar first met his now-wife, the animator Anne Beal, at MacDowell, the famed artists' residency in New Hampshire. While the relationship “blooms" in winter, there are “moments between" and other inescapable detours until “certainty" erases any lingering doubts, “exuberance" carries the day and Zuar and Beal are united as one. Yes, the music is ...

Alan Ferber: Up High, Down Low

by Angelo Leonardi
June 3, 2024

Nel nono disco da bandleader, il trombonista Alan Ferber ritorna col suo abituale nonet, con cui ha già inciso quattro album. L'organico ha subìto qualche cambiamento con le presenze del chitarrista Nir Felder, di Chris Cheek al sax baritono e qualche altro (ma restano i fidi sassofonisti Jon Gordon, Charles Pillow e John Ellis, il trombettista Scott Wendholt) confermando l'estetica di fondo: un modern mainstream caratterizzato da groove ritmico, chiarezza melodica e arrangiamenti leggibili che s'ispirano anche al soul ...

Peter Epstein Joins With Ralph Alessi, Sam Minaie And Mark Ferber For First Songlines Release In Nine Years

Source: Cary Goldberg
April 21, 2014

Polarities, the New Album from the Peter Epstein Quartet, Will be Released on May 13 “...a wonderfully compelling and gripping album, on which instruments and sounds are of a rare expressive power." - Stef Gijssels, Free Jazz Blog, reviewing Epstein's previous release as a leader, Abstract Realism Saxophonist Peter Epstein may have slipped from public view a bit since leaving New York to take up a teaching position at the University of Nevada, Reno (where he is now the director ...
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Sarah Lynch, Pete McCann, Alexis Cuadrado & Mark Ferber Tuesday 9pm at Mannahatta

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2006

At Mannahatta on Tuesday night, June 20th, Sarah Lynch will sing the 9 o'clock set, with Pete McCann (g), Alexis Cuadrado (b), and Mark Ferber (d).

Todd Jenkins calls guitarist Pete McCann “an exceedingly perceptive player with the good sense to approach songs in a way that befits their basic character, and the creativity to make something fresh out of those songs at the same time" (and if you've heard McCann play with Lynch before, you know exactly what Jenkins ...
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Monday at Kavehaz with Sarah Lynch, Pete McCann, Phil Palombi & Mark Ferber

Source: All About Jazz
January 21, 2006

Kavehaz favorite Sarah Lynch will sing the 9 o'clock set on Monday night, January 23rd, with Pete McCann on guitar, Phil Palombi on bass, and Mark Ferber on drums.

Todd Jenkins calls guitarist Pete McCann “an exceedingly perceptive player with the good sense to approach songs in a way that befits their basic character, and the creativity to make something fresh out of those songs at the same time." (If you heard McCann play with Lynch at 169 Bar, you ...
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169 Bar Hosts Jazz Vocalist Sarah Lynch with Greg Skaff, Phil Palombi & Mark Ferber

Source: All About Jazz
August 22, 2005

New York City-based vocalist Sarah Lynch appears Monday, August 22nd at 169 Bar with Greg Skaff on guitar, Phil Palombi on bass, and Mark Ferber on drums.

Greg Skaff's latest CD, “Ellington Boulevard", is on the Zoho record label and has garnered critical praise. In addition to leading his own trio, he also works regularly with Bobby Watson, David “Fathead" Newman, and Gloria Lynne.

Bassist Phil Palombi, who plays both internationally and in New York, performs and records with such ...
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Monday Monday: 169 Bar Hosts Jazz Vocalist Sarah Lynch with Greg Skaff, Phil Palombi & Mark Ferber

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2005

New York City-based vocalist Sarah Lynch appears Monday, August 22nd at 169 Bar with Greg Skaff on guitar, Phil Palombi on bass, and Mark Ferber on drums.

Greg Skaff's latest CD, “Ellington Boulevard", is on the Zoho record label and has garnered critical praise. In addition to leading his own trio, he also works regularly with Bobby Watson, David “Fathead" Newman, and Gloria Lynne.

Bassist Phil Palombi, who plays both internationally and in New York, performs and records with such ...
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Jazz Vocalist Sarah Lynch at 169 Bar Monday with Greg Skaff, Phil Palombi & Mark Ferber

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2005

New York City-based vocalist Sarah Lynch appears Monday, August 22nd at 169 Bar with Greg Skaff on guitar, Phil Palombi on bass, and Mark Ferber on drums.

Greg Skaff's latest CD, “Ellington Boulevard", is on the Zoho record label and has garnered critical praise. In addition to leading his own trio, he also works regularly with Bobby Watson, David “Fathead" Newman, and Gloria Lynne.

Bassist Phil Palombi, who plays both internationally and in New York, performs and records with such ...
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Sarah Lynch, Greg Skaff, Phil Palombi & Mark Ferber at 169 Bar Monday

Source: All About Jazz
August 16, 2005

New York City-based vocalist Sarah Lynch appears Monday, August 22nd at 169 Bar with Greg Skaff on guitar, Phil Palombi on bass, and Mark Ferber on drums.

Greg Skaff's latest CD, “Ellington Boulevard", is on the Zoho record label and has garnered critical praise. In addition to leading his own trio, he also works regularly with Bobby Watson, David “Fathead" Newman, and Gloria Lynne.

Bassist Phil Palombi, who plays both internationally and in New York, performs and records with such ...
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