Results for "ARC - Artists Recording Collective"

Erica Lindsay and Sumi Tonooka: Initiation

by Woodrow Wilkins
February 12, 2010

Tenor saxophonist Erica Lindsay and pianist Sumi Tonooka began working together at a jazz club in Albany, New York. Their combined creativity brings something out in each other, leading them to Initiations. Lindsay and Tonooka have been playing together since 1994, but Initiations is their first studio collaboration. They're accompanied by bassist Rufus ...

Erica Lindsay / Sumi Tonooka: Initiation

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 5, 2010

The naked emotion of Initiation can be so heartfelt at times that the urge to block out all external sound and focus solely on the music that issues out of the speakers is often overwhelming. Tenor saxophonist Erica Lindsay and pianist Sumi Tonooka have made a journey here that has taken them right to the center ...

Erica Lindsay / Sumi Tonooka: Initiation

by Jakob Baekgaard
January 23, 2010

While the discography of saxophonist Erica Lindsay is yet relatively modest, she still plays with the knowledge and authority of a seasoned musician. Initiation sees her teaming up with an old acquaintance, pianist Sumi Tonooka, and together they make a profoundly swinging and poetic music whose life-affirming quality it is hard to deny. ...

Erica Lindsay / Sumi Tonooka: Initiation

by Dan McClenaghan
January 11, 2010

Pianist Sumi Tonooka and tenor saxophonist Erica Lindsay are the leaders on Initiation, having contributed five compositions each. It's the chemistry and the collective organic spontaneity of the whole quartet, however, that moves the sound into the level of top-tier excellence. Bassist Rufus Reid constructs solid, big-sound foundations, and drummer Bob Braye --who, sadly, passed away ...

Blossom

By Lee Shaw

Label: ARC - Artists Recording Collective
Released: 2009
Track listing: Blossom; Fats' Blues; Blues 11; Holiday; Algo Triste; Cool Jack; Shifting Sands; Virtuoso Rag; Sleeper; Nipper's Dream.

Live in Europe

Label: ARC - Artists Recording Collective
Released: 2009
Track listing: Elvin's Circle; Rag Tag; Dance in the Question; Shifting Sands; Stealth; Remembering Shirley.

Lee Shaw Trio: Blossom

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
November 4, 2009

Curiously, it happens that one of the most exciting “young" pianists on the scene today is an eighty-something year-old woman named Lee Shaw. Shaw's playing has an energy and freshness that sounds great alongside other new rising stars of the piano-trio idiom: Aaron Goldberg, Aaron Parks, Robert Glasper, Yaron Herman and Elan Mehler. Shaw's story is ...

Jeff "Siege" Siegel: Live in Europe

by Karen Hogg
August 2, 2009

Drummer/composer Jeff Siegel's Live in Europe presents highlights from two radio shows recorded overseas in 2005. Siegel's quartet--tenor saxophonist Erica Lindsay, pianist Francesca Tanksley and bassist Danton Boller--perform four of Siegel's compositions as well as tunes by Tanksley and Lindsay. Lindsay's opening “Elvin's Circle" is a moody, propulsive tribute to the great drummer ...

Sumi Tonooka: Long Ago Today

by David Adler
February 25, 2009

Players as acclaimed as Uri Caine speak highly of their fellow Philadelphian, pianist Sumi Tonooka, who deserves a far wider hearing but works at her own pace. Long Ago Today, her first leader date in 10 years and her fifth since 1990, is accurately titled in the sense that it was recorded back in 2004. Sadly, ...

Lee Shaw Trio: Live in Graz

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 1, 2009

Live in Graz gives listeners a chance to catch up with one of the more improbable second acts in jazz: that of eighty-something pianist Lee Shaw. A poised Shaw usefully recounts the biographical details in the accompanying DVD (which is unfortunately somewhat shoddily produced): she acquired a broad musical education in tiny Ada, Oklahoma; later continued ...