Jazz Articles about Jimmy Weinstein

Rosario Di Rosa Trio: Freedom - Improvised Suites for Trio

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 8, 2009

Questa “Freedom" costituisce una Suite spuntata per caso, fra idee su come comporre un lavoro per quintetto, organizzare un disco in solitudine, la letteratura di John Fante e la musica, in un modo o nell´altro sempre presente, dei musicisti che ogni notte improvvisavano nei locali per eccellenza del bop alla 52esima strada di New York. Tante idee, forse confuse, e poi all´improvviso l´arte dell´improvvisazione in trio. Una decisione poco originale (quella di pescare standard strafamosi, suonati e risuonati mille volte, ...

Jimmy Weinstein: This Ocean

by Jim Santella
February 5, 2007

Recorded on April 11, 2005 in New York, this quartet session brings four creative artists together for a program of impressions relating to the never-ending majesty of our Earth's oceans. Flowing seamlessly together with an intuitive cohesiveness, the musicians travel the Seven Seas to find encounters with a wide array of natural oceanic characteristics.

What makes their journey different from an actual ocean voyage (or hours of watching nature films) is the freedom with which Jimmy Weinstein's quartet ...

Jimmy Weinstein's Natural Coincidence: This Ocean

by Eyal Hareuveni
September 29, 2006

Pianist Satoko Fujii and her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, rarely lend their services as side players; in recent years they have contributed to recordings by Japanese free jazz pioneer Itaru Oki and the Rova saxophone quartet. But in the last two years Fujii and Tamura committed themselves to a new quartet led by American drummer and composer Jimmy Weinstein, called Natural Coincidence. This fourth member in this quartet is the Japanese bassist Masa Kamaguchi, who has collaborated with Weinstein since ...

Jimmy Weinstein: Sound Emotion

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 1999

There are times when the music on drummer Weinstein’s album is quite pleasant, others when it’s as exasperating and elusive as the abstruse liner notes. The over–arching idea, I suppose, is to present a varied menu, and that is good; on the other hand, some of what is presented is as welcome to me as broccoli or hominy grits. Those whose tastes encompass a wider sphere may look with favor on everything at this banquet table. I prefer the meat ...