Jazz Articles about Michael Hashim

About Michael Hashim

Album Review

George Gee Swing Orchestra: Winter Wonderland

Read "Winter Wonderland" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 4, 2023

After an absence of several years the New York City-based George Gee Swing Orchestra is back in a recording studio, doing what it does best--swinging merrily through a Winter Wonderland chock-full of holiday favorites that kids of all ages can relate to and appreciate. Gee formed his first band while still in college at Carnegie Mellon University, one day after interviewing Count Basie on the campus radio station. After moving back to New York City, where he ...

Album Review

Eyal Vilner Big Band: The Jam!

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2022

Simply leading a big band in 2022 is cause for celebration. Leading a big band as sharp and talented as Eyal Vilner's New York- based ensemble is cause for far more than that. Vilner, an Israeli-born composer, arranger and woodwind specialist, formed the band in 2008, one year after arriving in New York City. He has been busy since then shaping its identity and refining its style, and his persistence pays off big-time on the band's second album, The Jam! ...

Album Review

Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble: Celebrations

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 22, 2011

Il sottotitolo di questo album, inciso a New York nel maggio 2010, parla di “interpretazioni di melodie festive di repertorio ebraico". Klezmer, quindi, magari con venature jazzistiche? Quasi per niente: questa è musica della massima leggerezza (non proprio nell'accezione migliore del termine...) in cui le succitate melodie virano verso colori non di rado latineggianti, comunque sempre dello spessore degno di una sagra di paese. Si rasenta in effetti il “liscio" con estrema nonchalance (cadendoci dentro a piè pari in almeno ...