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Brian Lynch, featuring Charles McPherson: Torch Bearers

Read "Torch Bearers" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 13, 2026

Trumpeter Brian Lynch, who has been at the top of his game for more than three decades, shares the stage with another seasoned maestro, alto saxophonist Charles McPherson, on Torch Bearers, wherein Lynch, McPherson and their able companions not only carry the torch for their generation but offer an upcoming legion of eager young musicians a candid lesson in jazz/bop milieu and design and how best to properly safeguard those standards. They do this without pretense or embellishment, simply by ...

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Rob Schneiderman: Tone Twister

Read "Tone Twister" reviewed by Geannine Reid

by Geannine Reid
December 19, 2017

Pianist and composer Rob Schneiderman has returned after a hiatus of over a decade, released in September on Tone Twister, we find him leading a swinging quintet. The lineup is; tenor saxophonist Ralph Moore, bassist Gerald Cannon, drummer Pete Van Nostrand, and trumpeter Brian Lynch, who produced the album. The album consists of eight original Schneiderman compositions, plus his arrangement of the standard “Unforgettable."Schneiderman is a world class mathematician by day and jazz pianist by night, this unique ...

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Rob Schneiderman: Back in Town

Read "Back in Town" reviewed by Paul Olson

by Paul Olson
December 17, 2004

Back in Town commemorates veteran pianist Rob Schneiderman's return to New York City after a six-year absence (he was in California getting a Ph.D. in mathematics) and is his first recording since 2001's Edgewise. Recorded in one day in January of 2004, Back in Town is a standards album of exceptional musicianship--Schneiderman's chops are completely unaffected by any time off and I suspect he's been finding time to play--but very unexceptional chemistry among the members of the trio (which includes ...

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Rob Schneiderman: Edgewise

by C. Andrew Hovan
April 1, 2001

You have to wonder if there’s something to the fact that there are three jazz artists of current vintage who, in addition to contributing substantially to the jazz lexicon, have also made an impact in some very important and time consuming fields outside of music. For instance, both trumpeter Eddie Henderson and pianist Denny Zeitlin have their own psychiatry practices. And in the case of fellow pianist Rob Schneiderman, we have one very intellectual mathematician in the field of low ...

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Rob Schneiderman: Edgewise

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2001

If it seems that Rob Schneiderman has faded into the woodwork lately--instead of remaining active on the New York jazz scene or touring with the likes of J.J. Johnson, George Coleman or Slide Hampton--that's because he has. The woodwork of academia.Pursuing his Ph.D. in mathematics at Berkeley, Schneiderman thankfully has found the time to record once more as part of the New York Piano Series of Reservoir Records.This time out, Schneiderman had two seemingly disconnected interests ...