Results for "Ben Williams"

Nonesuch Releases Debut Recording from Pat Metheny Unity Group, Kin (←→), on February 4

November 22, 2013

Metheny won 20th Grammy Award with Unity Band members saxophonist Chris Potter, drummer Antonio Sanchez, and bassist Ben Williams; multi-instrumentalist Giulio Carmassi joins Group for new album Group launches 44-city North American Tour February 3 “From rapid-fire post-bop cascades through country-inflected ballads to exultant synth-guitar anthems…a group of blazing virtuosi with musical intelligence to match...” —Guardian ...

AccuJazz Internet Radio Featuring Melissa Aldana, Other Recent Monk Contest Champs

October 15, 2013

AccuJazz Internet Radio is now featuring the music of Melissa Aldana along with other recent winners and finalists of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition on its Emerging Voices channel. The channel has always exclusively played music by the younger generation of musicians, so it is a perfect fit to feature musicians awarded in the ...

Etienne Charles: Creole Soul

by Nigel Campbell
August 17, 2013

With his simple declaration, “sound is my art...I just try to create," Trinidadian jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles puts into context his role of creator and producer in relation to his latest recording. This new album, previewed earlier this year in Tobago at Jazz on the Beach at Mt Irvine, reveals an evolution of his art that ...

Etienne Charles: Trumpet's First Chantwell

by DanMichael Reyes
July 29, 2013

Trinidadian-born trumpeter Etienne Charles has made it a point to share the culture of his native homeland with the world through music, whether it is writing songs on cuatro or steel pan, incorporating Kweyol chants on the opening track to his latest album Creole Soul (Culture Shock, 2013), or playing with an undeniable Caribbean bounce that ...

Things Don't Exist

Featuring the music of Ben Williams
Duration: 11:15
July 17, 2013

Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival, Saratoga Springs, NY, June 29-30, 2013

by R.J. DeLuke
July 12, 2013

Saratoga Performing Arts CenterFreihofer's Saratoga Jazz FestivalSaratoga Springs, NYJune 29-30, 2013 Fiery music that burned with intensity, eclectic compositions that shifted in time signature and tempo, sweet melodies and down-home dirty blues--all were heard at this year's Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival in upstate New York, an event that is among the ...

NEXT Collective: Cover Art

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 1, 2013

Cover Art heralds the NEXT Collective: Seven musicians--Logan Richardson (flute and alto saxophone), Walter Smith III (bass clarinet and tenor saxophone), Matthew Stevens (guitar), Gerald Clayton (piano and Fender Rhodes), Kris Bowers (Fender Rhodes), Ben Williams (bass) and Jamire Williams (drums) --whose debut quite capably bears up under the heavy “young lions of jazz" mantle. Bassist ...

Requiems, Remodels & Remembrances

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 28, 2013

Michael BurksShow of StrengthAlligator Records2012 Michael “Iron Man" Burks grew up playing guitar. A quick study, he soon began leading the blues, rhythm and blues and soul house bands that backed O.V. Wright, Johnnie Taylor and other stars as they passed through the ...

"Lone Wolf" Finds Plenty to Chew On

by Jack Bowers
March 8, 2013

With Betty sidelined by a bad cough, it was up to me to seek out local jazz events in February, and I managed to find a couple of pretty good ones, starting February 7 at the University of New Mexico's Keller Hall where SuperSax New Mexico performed for the third time in Albuquerque. As you may ...

Doug Collette's Best Releases of 2012

by Doug Collette
January 23, 2013

It's great to be able to pick and choose from an overflowing roster of great titles, then relive the pleasure of discovery from the past twelve months. The Brad Mehldau TrioOdeNonesuch RecordsThe pianist's trio offers its perspective on the world around us by filtering it through its original ...