Results for "Adam Kolker"

This Week @ The Cornelia Street Cafe November 15-21, 2010

November 16, 2010

his Week @ The CORNELIA STREET CAFE—NOVEMBER 15-21, 2010 Showtimes: Weeknights: 6:00 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM, Weekends: 6:00 PM, 9:00 PM and 10:30 PM (doors open @ 5:45 PM-early shows, & @ 8:30 PM-late shows) Admission: Cover charge varies, when known, indicated below November 15-21 @ The Cornelia Street Cafe: Tuesday, November 16 ...

Kolker/Sabbagh/Stratton/Green @ Grassroots on August 29

August 29, 2010

Allen Carter Big Band / Lucerne Jazz Orchestra / Joris Teepe Big Band

by Jack Bowers
August 3, 2010

Allen Carter Big BandGiftsAC Muzik2010 If there were any integrity or enlightenment in the music business as we know it in 2010--not to mention among listeners--drummer Allen Carter's debut big-band album, Gifts, would surely go platinum or at least earn a well-deserved Grammy Award. As not much of ...

Flag Day

By Adam Kolker

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: gNash; Don't Let It Bring You Down; Played Twice; Ties; Only One; Last Night When We Where Young; In Or Out; Flag Day.

Bruce Barth's Suite Live

November 1, 2009

Pianist Bruce Barth has long been one of my favorite musicians.  He's worked with a slew of great musicians, from James Moody to Branford Marsalis, Phil Woods to Andy Statman (his work on Statman's The Hidden Light is simply gorgeous.) In the early 1990's, Barth toured and recorded with trumpeter Terence Blanchard and his time with ...

Adam Kolker: Flag Day

by Elliott Simon
February 18, 2009

Flag Day, from saxophonist Adam Kolker, exquisitely raises the standard of creative improvisation with its refreshingly cerebral musical explorations. Kolker is of the school that favors unhurried journeys through tunes. This allows the musicians to discover interesting musical nooks and crannies, expand on them and in the process create new music. Kolker wields an elegant instrument, ...

La Perfeccio de la Irrealitat

By Adam Kolker

Label: New Mood Jazz Records
Released: 2008

Adam Kolker

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

The sometimes heard, “those that can't do, teach" is a description not very fitting of the jazz world as hundreds of great musicians have become professors at some of the finest educational institutions around the world as well as teach privately at home. Many elder statesmen such as pianists Kenny Barron and Barry Harris as well ...

Sultanic Verses

By Adam Kolker

Label: Satchmo Jazz Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Sultan's Dream, Waves, Verse 1, Track 4, Verse 2, Epistrophy, Dolphin Dance, Verse 3, All or Nothing at All, Blues, Verse 4, Remebrance

Adam Kolker: Sultanic Verses

by Dan McClenaghan
May 11, 2003

Reedman Adam Kolker has garnered three Grammy nominations for his work alongside percussionist Ray Barretto. Now, as the leader on Sultanic Verses, he teams up again with Barretto, whose churning rhythms aid and abet pianist Bruce Barth, bassist John Herbert, and drummer Billy Hart.Four tunes are "Verses," shuffled in with the Kolker originals and ...