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Bill Carrothers Trio: A Night At the Village Vanguard
by C. Michael Bailey
The sonic character of New York City's Village Vanguard is one of sound as memory. There is a pillow of pungent warmth and familiarity surrounding the sounds captured that can be heard on the early recordings, like Sonny Rollins' A Night At the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1957), Bill Evans' The Complete Village Vanguard Sessions, 1961 ...
Bill Carrothers Trio: A Night at the Village Vanguard
by Dan McClenaghan
Bill Carrothers Trio A Night At The Village Vanguard Pirouet Records 2011 Maybe everything that goes down in New York's Village Vanguard should be documented. The history of live albums recorded at the legendary venue, going back to the early days, includes standout sets by pianist Bill Evans and saxophonists ...
54th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival September 16 - 18
The 54th Monterey Jazz Festival, three-time winner of the JazzTimes Readers poll for “World's Best Jazz Festival" takes place September 16 to September 18 at the Monterey Fairgrounds, home to the Festival for 54 consecutive years. Described as “a cultural colossus" by the San Jose Mercury News and “a mecca for true jazz fans" by the ...
Joy Spring
Label: Pirouet Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Junior's Arrival; Joy Spring; Jacqui; Gerkin for Perkin; Delilah; Gertrude's Bounce; Jordu; Daahoud; Time; Powell's Prances; Tiny Capers; I Remember Clifford.
Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases of 2010
by Dan McClenaghan
These are the CDs that never roamed away from the current listening shelf. Jessica Williams Touch Origin Records Masterpiece isn't a word to be tossed around lightly. Jessica Williams, with the eighty-eight piano keys and a lifetime of musical immersion, has created one with this recording.
Ottawa Jazz Festival 2010: Days 4-6, June 27-29, 2010
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 | Days 10-11Kenny Garrett Presents / John Scofield and the Piety Street Band Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu / Medeski, Martin and Wood John Geggie and Friends / Youn Sun Nah / Manu Katché TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 27-29, 2010 ...
Bill Carrothers - Joy Spring (Pirouet)
June 26, 1956 - a day that will forever register in the ledger of jazz tragedy. Pianist Bill Carrothers pays tribute to the two jazz icons lost on that faithful date, Clifford Brown and Richie Powell, on this consistently engaging trio session. Carrothers covers the major bases of the Brown and Powell songbook, also pulling in ...
Pianist Bill Carrothers Interviewed at AAJ
A conversation with pianist Bill Carrothers reveals an unusual man; one who is to-the-point and forthright to a fault, perhaps, and one who's words spill from his mind unfiltered by anyone's expectations. Much the way his playing on Joy Spring (Pirouet, 2010)--a celebration of the music of hard bop trumpet icon Clifford Brown--seems to spill from ...
Bill Carrothers: See the Piano, Play the Piano
by Dan McClenaghan
"I want to keep my fingers in a state of chaos...I try to keep my fingers stupid."----Bill Carrothers, jazz pianist. The quest for chaotic and stupid finger seems an unusual one for a jazz pianist. But then, a conversation with Bill Carrothers reveals an unusual man; one who is to-the-point and forthright ...
Bill Carrothers: Joy Spring
by Dan Bilawsky
Tribute albums often come in the form of imitative musical gestures from musicians of a like-instrument--such as a saxophonist paying tribute to John Coltrane by trying to copy his style or specific mannerisms. But pianist Bill Carrothers has crafted a different type of homage with Joy Spring, using the piano trio format to flesh out some ...
