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Paul Motian Trio 2000 + Two: Live at the Village Vanguard, Volume lll
by Charles Walker
Paul Motian Trio 2000 + TwoLive at the Village Vanguard, Volume IIIWinter & Winter2011 It almost seems like a challenge to the critical establishment: return to the scene of your greatest early-career triumph, 40 years later, surrounded by active musicians instead of legends, and see what happens. ...
Putumayo Presents "Jazz," a Collection of Exceptional Recordings by Jazz Legends
Featured Artists: Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans * Mose Allison * Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson * Chet Baker * Blossom Dearie * Hampton Hawes * Billie Holiday * The Nat King Cole Trio * Anita O'Day * Nina Simone * Zoot Sims * Maxine Sullivan Putumayo announces the May 3rd release of Jazz, featuring a ...
Fred Hersch Trio + 2: New York City, March 5, 2011
by Victor L. Schermer
Fred Hersch Trio + 2Jazz Standard,New York CIty, NYMarch 5, 2011 Fred Hersch is one of today's most prominent jazz pianists, extending the limits of the jazz idiom with rare finesse and a sense of meaning and implication in every note he plays. This was one of five consecutive evenings ...
Damani Phillips: The String Theory
by Victor Verney
Damani PhillipsThe String TheorySelf Produced2010 The idea of adding strings to a jazz combo has long been a divisive issue among the music's aficionados. It's often disparaged by many purists as a commercial sell-out, similar to the “fusion" concept of marrying jazz with rock. One self-proclaimed hard ...
Joel Harrison String Choir: The Music of Paul Motian
by John Kelman
Joel Harrison has stretched the boundaries of form and freedom for over fifteen years, but Urban Myths (HighNote, 2009) and, in particular, the ambitious The Wheel (Innova, 2008), have represented significant evolutionary leaps. The Wheel married a conventional horn-led jazz quintet with a classical string quartet, its collection of Harrison originals pushing the limits of cross-pollination ...
Justin Kauflin: Humble Beginnings
by Marshall Taylor
The beauty of music lies in its subliminal spirituality. Religious or not, few can argue the effects of music on the human emotions and how it impacts our perception of things beyond what is skin-deep. For 24 year-old Justin Kauflin, a New York-based pianist notable for his work with Jae Sinnett, and for ...
It's an Upstate Thing: John Medeski and Lee Shaw; Joe Barna and Sketches Of Influence
by J Hunter
It's time once again to prove that all the great jazz in New York State isn't all made in New York City. The state capital of Albany has been doing its part for quite some time, and it doesn't stop with its two favorite musical sons: mallets wizard Stefon Harris and baritone saxman Nick Brignola. Here ...
Michel Reis: Point of No Return
by Dan McClenaghan
With Point of No Return, pianist Michel Reis--born in Luxembourg and now New York-based after formal education at Berklee School of Music and the New England Conservatory--has recorded an album of atmospheric, often somber, and consistently beautiful music. The twenty-something musician avoids the trap into which so many budding artists fall: that of mixing styles and ...
Luciano Troja: At Home with Zindars
by Ian Patterson
Italian pianist Luciano Troja--like saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, drummers Philly Joe Jones and Tony Williams, accordionist Dino Saluzzi, guitarists Larry Coryell and Emily Remler,and trumpeter Donald Byrd before him--discovered the beauty of pianist/composer Earl Zindars' music via the numerous interpretations of pianist Bill Evans. Enchanted by Zindars' compositions, Troja embarked on a five-year odyssey to meet the ...
James Lent: The Man at the Piano
by Gary Bennett
The Other Side has been a landmark of Hyperion Avenue, sandwiched between a gymnasium and an eatery or two in the Silverlake section of Los Angeles, for several decades. Ownership has changed once or twice; bartenders have come and gone. But faithful patronage of the restaurant-bar hasn't waned. Inside, the blood-red walls are ...
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