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Monder / Malaby / Rainey: Live At The 55 Bar
by Mark Corroto
It is almost certain that guitarist Ben Monder was uncertain just what was likely to result from building a trio with saxophonist Tony Malaby and drummer Tom Rainey. Recorded at the threshold of the COVID-19 shutdown during Monder's monthly Tuesday residency at New York's The 55 Bar, this fully improvised “Suite 3320" can easily be taken ...
Monder-Malaby-Rainey and Mario Rom's Interzone
by Maurice Hogue
There are more 2020 favourites scattered throughout this playlist (my choices at the One Man's Jazz website), but some excellent new trio and duo releases are highlights. Ben Monder, Tony Malaby and Tom Rainey gathered at one of Monder's residency-sessions at the 55 Bar and the three-part album is split over this show and the next ...
2020 Releases Deserving Recognition
by Jerome Wilson
Pandemic or no pandemic, there were a lot of worthwhile jazz CDs released in 2020, more than could be covered within the year. Here are quick reviews of six of them. Benny Rubin Jr. Quartet Know Say Or See Self-Produced 2020 Benny Rubin Jr is a young ...
Jazz Composers Collective: The Herbie Nichols Project
by AAJ Staff
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in November 1999. The Herbie Nichols Project is a working, researching, and performing entity--co-led by pianist Frank Kimbrough and bassist Ben Allison. Operating within that fertile creative aggregate known as the Jazz Composers Collective (of which Mr. Kimbrough and Mr. Allison are ...
Frank Kimbrough: From Now to Forever—A Remembrance
by Ludovico Granvassu
On December 30, 2020, pianist Frank Kimbrough passed away at the age of 64. True to form, 2020 wreaked havoc until the end. The cause of death was not Covid-19, but the shock at the untimely loss of a revered artist was not any less powerful. Frank Kimbrough had the rare gift of touching ...
Benjamin Boone: The Poets Are Gathering
by Paul Rauch
Saxophonist Benjamin Boone continues his ambitious foray into jazz and poetry, this time recruiting an impressive cadre of poets for his aptly entitled release, The Poets are Gathering (Origin, 2020). The union of poetry and jazz has never been so powerfly presented, reflecting the past year of the worldwide Black Lives Matter movement, the universal role ...
Data Lords
Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD 1: A World Lost; Don’t Be Evil; CQ CQ, Is Anybody There?; Sputnik; Data Lords. CD 2: Sanzenin; Stone Song; Look Up; Braided Together; Bluebird; The Sun Waited for Me.
Monash Sessions: Collaborations
By Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University
Label: Monash Sessions (Monash University)
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. Pittance (Alessi);
2. Yoda (Oh);
3. Lady Geri (Keller);
4. Lap Nap (Alessi);
5. Drums Across the Ganges (Evans);
6. Jada (Bob Carleton);
7. Izanagi Izanami (Nguyen Le);
8. Deeper Than Happy (Oh);
9. Melee (Alessi);
10. Moving On (Bailey);
11. Pluridimensional (Monder);
12. Gee Whiz (Bailey);
13. O.K Chorale (Monder).
The Poets Are Gathering
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: That's My Son There (feat. Patricia Smith); Marooning (feat. Patrick Sylvain);
Against Silence (feat. Tyehimba Jess); Poem By Poem (feat. Juan Felipe Herrera); Deconstruction Of Idols (feat. Dustin Prestridge); Truths (feat. Lee Herrick); The Poets Are Gathering (feat.
Juan Felipe Herrera); Song (feat. Edward Hirsch); Spiral (feat. Marisol Baca); The Sun One (Homage To Sun Ra) (feat. T.R. Hummer); Your Man (feat. Patricia Smith); Impervious Blue (feat. T.R.
Hummer); Black Man (feat. Donald Brown, II); Ports Of Sorrow (feat. Patrick Sylvain); Branch Library (feat.
Edward Hirsch);These Current Events (feat. Kimiko Hahn).
Monash Sessions: Ben Monder
By Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University
Label: Monash Sessions
Released: 2020
Track listing: Izanagi Izanami (Nguyen Le)
Sleep (Monder)
Bender (Magnusson/Bakker)
Echolalia (Monder)
Luteous Pangolin (Monder)
Pluridimensional (Monder - solo piece)
Indian Cafe - Antonio Forcione
O.K Chorale (Monder)
Muvseevum (Monder)
Sunny Manitoba (Monder)
