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Michael Zilber: Originals For the Originals
by Paul Rauch
Saxophonist/composer Michael Zilber is better known by fellow musicians than by the jazz public, this is an unfortunate truth. The Vancouver, B.C., native moved to Boston in his late teens, then to New York City to begin his musical odyssey. Musicians there recognized his prodigious talent, resulting in recordings with jazz royalty such as Dizzy Gillespie, ...
David Bindman Sextet: Ten Billion Versions of Reality
by Karl Ackermann
Saxophonist David Bindman reconvenes the ensemble that created Sunset Park Polyphony (Self Produced, 2012) for the eclectic Ten Billion Versions of Reality. Bindman had spent parts of two recent years in the upstate New York town of Cambridge, developing a suite that is meant to weave together varying perspectives across multiple sound surfaces. The title, in ...
Pete Malinverni: Heaven
by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton
Perhaps church would be fashionable again amongst lapsed Christians if every church had musicians at the spec of Pete Malinverni. We have, in part, much to admire of the LA based Newman family for their reach in music and its training, in which composer, Anthony Newman was an insightful mentor to Malinverni's dedication. It would seem ...
Pete Malinverni: Heaven
by Dan McClenaghan
New York City-based pianist Pete Malinverni is a spiritual man. It's a side of his musical personality that he explores with depth and clarity on Heaven, a mostly trio affair that puts his succinct feel for the sacred, his supple and exquisite touch and his improvisational elan in the forefront on a gorgeous set of music. ...
Sherri Roberts: Anybody's Spring
by Geannine Reid
Vocalist Sherri Roberts brings the joy and promise of new beginnings with twelve standards, that offer a spring theme with her 2017 release, Anybody's Spring. Selections come from the jazz compositions of Clifford Brown and Tadd Dameron to the standard and not-so-standard fare of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Hoagy Carmichael, and Blossom Dearie favorite Bob Haymes, the ...
Jazz Noir
Label: Papillon/Blueport Jazz
Released: 2016
Track listing: 1 Noir Medley (9:11)
Touch of Evil by Henry Mancini
Laura by David Raksin
Vertigo by Bernard Herrmann
Chinatown by Jerry Goldsmith
Taxi Driver by Bernard Herrmann
Blues In The Night by Harold Arlen
2 Stormy Weather (4:13) Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler
3 Film Noir (8:01) Dmitri Matheny and Dana Gioia
4 Audrey’s Dance (2:38) Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch
5 Crime Scenes (12:11) Dmitri Matheny
6 Here’s Looking At You (5:13) Charlie Haden
7 Caravan (5:07) Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and Juan Tizol
8 Estate (5:14) Bruno Martino and Bruno Brighetti
9 Golden Lady (5:30) Stevie Wonder
10 High Wall (4:08) Bronisław Kaper
11 The Long Goodbye (4:54) John Williams and Johnny Mercer
12 What Now My Love? (5:14) Gilbert Bécaud and Pierre Delanoë
Jack Wilkins: Playing What He's Preaching
by Rob Rosenblum
Some time in 1975 a box of records from the Mainstream label was dropped by my front door. I picked it up and began to open it with a mix of excitement and dread of having to face writing more record reviews. I saw an LP titled Windows with an unfamiliar cast of characters and put ...
Bay Area Bassist/Composer Fred Randolph To Release 3rd CD, "Song Without Singing," August 28
One of the busiest bassists on the rich San Francisco Bay Area music scene for more than 15 years, in demand for his work on acoustic, electric, and fretless bass, Fred Randolph has been an integral part of bands led by artists from Ian Carey and Akira Tana to Dan Hicks and Maria Muldaur. For his ...
The Spooky, Scary Freedom Jazz Dance Halloween Classic Is Uploaded For Your Fright Night Festivities
Visit Freedom Jazz Dance to hear the 2-hour Halloween Classic from way back in 2010. Available for 4 days only! Boo! Who said jazz can't be spooky, scary? Certainly not the great Count Floyd or me! Pour yourself a tall glass of blood and visit the Freedom Jazz Dance Archive Page to enjoy horrifying Halloween selections ...
Steve Heckman Quintet: Search for Peace
by Jack Bowers
Steve Heckman says he was inspired to play the tenor saxophone after hearing John Coltrane, especially Coltrane's A Love Supreme. Luckily, Heckman did not follow his mentor completely off the deep end but remained instead true to his bop-bred roots while developing a singular voice of his own on the tenor. On Search for Peace (a ...
