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Guilhem Flouzat: One Way ... Or Another
by AAJ Italy Staff
È interessante l'assortimento del sestetto protagonista di questo One Way ... Or Another. Assieme ad un manipolo di giovani molto promettenti guidati dal batterista compositore Guilem Flouzat (allievo assai apprezzato di John Riley) troviamo i già esperti Ben Wendel (sassofonista dei Kneebody) e Laurent Coq (il più americano dei pianisti francesi) e, in tre brani, una ...
Take Five With Josh Nelson
by AAJ Staff
Meet Josh Nelson: Josh Nelson, born and raised in Southern California, maintains an active and creative schedule as a jazz pianist, composer, teacher, and recording artist. At 33 years old, he has already performed with some of the most respected names in jazz, including Natalie Cole, Anthony Wilson, Robert Hurst, Jeff Hamilton, Ralph Moore, ...
Simple Song
By Ben Wendel
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2010
Track listing:
01. Breath; 02. Simple Song; 03. Not Yet; 04. Chorale; 05. No Thank You Mr. West; 06. Lonnie's Lament (Coltrane); 07. Maupin; 08. Ralph; 09. A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing (Strayhorn); 10. Trust Fall; 11. She Never Had.
Tutte le composizioni sono di Ben Wendel tranne quelle indicate.
ACT
By Ben Wendel
Label:
Released: 2010
Track listing:
01. News (Wendel); 02. ACT (Wendel); 03. Title (Raghavan); 04. Oldworld (Wendel); 05. Pentup House (Rollins); 06. Shamed Into Love (Costello);
07. Break (Raghavan); 08. What Was (Wendel).
New Voices: Sarah Manning, John Escreet, Kneebody
by J Hunter
Jazz is like the human body. It needs fresh air, constant activity and a steady stream of nutrients to stay hale and hearty. Conversely, if all the genre does is sit in a comfy chair and try to live on what came before, it becomes sedentary, incurious and--ultimately--self destructive. Fortunately, the young keep jazz active and ...
Kneebody: You Can Have Your Moment
by C. Michael Bailey
West Coast eclectic Kneebody elbowed its way to the front of the crowd on Theo Bleckmann's Grammy-nominated Twelve Songs by Charles Ives (Winter & Winter, 2009). As is customary with Bleckmann, he always employs musicians empathetic with his creative and playful vision. On You Can have Your Moment, Kneebody is all business, pushing the musical envelope ...
Kneebody: You Can Have Your Moment
by Dan Bilawsky
Kneebody needs no introduction for the avant-leaning, electro-acoustic jazz set--if such a specific subset of a crowd exists. This quintet has a way of combining high art improvisation with earthy grooves and electronic etching that nobody else can seem to match. The music on You Can Have Your Moment is a sonic stew that includes raucous ...
Undead Jazz Festival: Kenny's Castaways Edition
by Daniel Lehner
Every zombie film fan knows that being bitten by a creature of the night is a fate worse than death. The only cure is to have a member of your party load up a shotgun and take you out before you turn into a limping, brain-hungry shell of a person. So giving an event a header ...
Iridium Double Bill: E.J. Strickland and Kendrick Scott
by David Miller
E.J. Strickland Quintet & Kendrick Scott OracleThe IridiumNew York, New YorkMarch 3, 2010 This article will not be about the music. The music was great, as is to be expected from the two bands on the bill at the Iridium on this night. Group 1: E.J. Strickland (leader), Marcus Strickland, Tim ...
Ignacio Berroa Graces the Douglas Beach House
by Bill Leikam
Ignacio BerroaBach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Douglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, CaliforniaJanuary 31, 2010 Sometimes you think you've heard it all, but then something comes along to let you know that there is even more. This was clearly the case on January 31, when Cuban drummer Ignacio Berroa and his ...
