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Matthew Sheens: Every Eight Seconds
by Dan Bilawsky
In 2009, pianist Matthew Sheens became the first Australian to win a Downbeat Magazine Student Award, but that's hardly the only honor that's been bestowed upon this gifted musician. Sheens has been racking up grants, scholarships and awards at a rapid pace, as he moved from the University of Adelaide, where he completed his undergraduate work ...
Seung-Hee: Sketches on the Sky
by Mark F. Turner
Brooklyn-based jazz vocalist Seung-Hee possesses the composure of a seasoned chanteuse while demonstrating broader qualities that contain refined arranging skills, classical training, and multilingual singing. The South Korean native represents a soulfully empathetic performer and a composer who's not afraid to take chances as witnessed in Sketches on the Sky, the follow up to 2009's memorable ...
Matthew Sheens: Every Eight Seconds
by Ian Patterson
Debut recordings can sometimes suffer from a little too much subservience to the jazz cannon, as musicians perhaps wish to stamp their jazz credentials from the get go, or as is the case with Australian-born, New York-based pianist Matthew Sheens' Every Eight Seconds they can announce a refreshingly personal voice. Sheen--a former student of pianists Fred ...
Jeff Holmes Quartet: Of One's Own
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il quartetto di Jeff Holmes comprende musicisti piuttosto affermati pur non essendo famosi che per anni hanno lavorato da leader o sideman in formazioni importanti, basti citare il contrabbassista James Cammack a lungo nel trio di Ahmad Jamal. Sempre in contatto fra un festival e l'altro hanno deciso di andare in studio per registrare una manciata ...
Lema Sabachthani
By Bill Stevens
Label: Milessmiles Productions
Released: 2012
Track listing: First Station; Second Station; Third Station; Fourth Station; Fifth Station; Sixth Station; Seventh Station; Eighth Station; Ninth Station; Tenth Station; Eleventh Station; Twelfth Station; Thirteenth Station; Fourteenth Station; Be II.
Of One's Own
By Adam Kolker
Label:
Released: 2012
Track listing:
01. Macaroons (Jeff Holmes) - 5:49;
02. Labour Day (John Abercrombie) - 5:57;
03. Poinciana (Nat Simon - Buddy Bernier) - 7:24;
04. The Senses of Delight (Jeff Holmes) - 4:54;
05. One For C.J. (Jeff Holmes) - 7:06;
06. Waltz #3 (Toby Holmes) - 6:45;
07. Of One’s Own (Jeff Holmes) - 8:42;
08. Rose On Driftwood (Jeff Holmes) - 8:24;
09. So Long, Farewell (Richard Rogers/Oscar Hammerstein) - 6:01.
Jeff Holmes Quartet: Of One's Own
by Bruce Lindsay
It's not the job of liner notes to critically appraise the recording for which they were written. Liner notes are supposed to be laudatory, occasionally hagiographic, but they're never meant to critique. That's the job of the review. Reviews don't make good liner notes and vice versa. Exceptions prove rules, however. So congratulations must go to ...
Lola Danza: The Island
by Dan Bilawsky
Vocalist Lola Danza has always been an original thinker, but that doesn't get you very far in a field crowded with people fitting that description. What makes Danza stand out is her strength of vision and steadfast commitment to following her muse, no matter how non-commercial it may be. With Janya (Evolver, 2011), Danza and her ...
Lola Danza: The Island
by C. Michael Bailey
Singer/composer Lola Danza is not a multicultural artistic presence, she is a pan-cultural artistic presence. This is fully exploited on her ensemble recording, Janya (Evolver, 2011). Her singing and songwriting hover in the neighborhood of jazz because terms like “new age" and “world music" don't seem to quite cover it. Live Free (Evolver, 2009) was exactly ...
Adam Kolker Quartet Featuring Billy Hart, Bruce Barth & John Hébert, January 3 at Iridium in New York City
The Adam Kolker Quartet Featuring Billy Hart, Bruce Barth & John Hébert will perform January 3 at Iridium Jazz Club in New York City. Adam Kolker, a critically acclaimed jazz composer, tenor saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, bass clarinetist and Sunnyside Records artist, also leads the Adam Kolker Quartet Featuring John Abercombie. Drummer Billy Hart has appeared on ...
