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Tim Ray Trio: Fire & Rain
by Jack Bowers
Boston-based pianist Tim Ray and his rhythm mates, bassist John Lockwood and drummer Mark Walker, have been performing together since 2013, and Fire & Rain is their second recording as a trio. Their years working arm-in-arm and side-by-side have spawned a symbiotic relationship, and it shows. Even when the trio tests the free-jazz ...
Nina Simone In Concert, New Midsummer Releases Plus Birthday Celebrations for Jazz Masters Annie Ross, Joanne Brackeen & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Nina Simone, Nadje Noordhuis and James Shipp, Nite Bjuti (a new collaboration featuring Candice Hoyes, Mimi Jones, Val Jeanty), the The Hot Toddies Jazz Band, Chuck Owen & WDR Big Band, Paula Maya, Francesca Bertazzo Hart, with a new single from Aline Homzy, plus birthday shoutouts to Annie Ross, Lisa ...
Funkwrench Blues: Soundtrack For A Film Without Pictures
by Chris May
Once upon a time it was hard to walk into an arthouse cinema without bumping into a jazz soundtrack. Miles Davis' for Louis Malle's Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud (1958), Charles Mingus' for John Cassavetes' Shadows (1959), Krzysztof Komeda's for Roman Polanski's Knife In The Water (1962) were among a legion of similarly inclined endeavours. ...
Luciano Troja: To New Life: The Music Of Earl Zindars
by Ian Patterson
Like many before him, Sicilian pianist Luciano Troja discovered the music of Earl Zindars (1927-2005) through pianist Bill Evans, who probably recorded more tunes by Zindars--nine in total--than he did by any other composer. Equally smitten, Troja has been down this road before, paying homage to Zindars on At Home with Zindars (Self Produced, 2011), a ...
Senri Oe: Class of '88
by Neil Duggan
Imagine a superstar musician, someone along the lines of Ed Sheeran perhaps. Then imagine him giving up his lifestyle and commercial success just to re-awaken his love for the jazz musicians of his youth. You may think that was a difficult story to believe, but with J-Pop superstar, Senri Oe, that is exactly what happened. With ...
A Fireside Chat With Tony Bennett
by AAJ Staff
This interview was first published on All About Jazz in September 2001. Tony Bennett hails from a period in Americana where style loomed larger than sustenance and men were less than men without a martini or scotch in one hand and a cigar or cigarette burning from the other. Those were the days. And ...
Tony Bennett / Bill Evans: The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings
by Chris May
In the mid-1970s, when singer Tony Bennett got together with pianist Bill Evans to record The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album (Concord, 1975) and Together Again (Concord, 1976), Bennett was considered terminally uncool by most jazz fans under 30, and rock fans of any age. Despite a few earlier outings in jazz contexts, including an album recorded ...
Bill Evans and Tony Bennett on TV
By October 1976, Bill Evans and Tony Bennett had recorded two albums of duets for Tony's short-lived Improv label. I've always had mixed feelings about the recordings. For me, it's strange to hear Evans as second fiddle to anyone and even stranger to hear Tony having to defer, musically, to his accompanist. But strangest of all, ...
Kurt Rosenwinkel: Undercover: Live At The Village Vanguard
by Chris May
Kurt Rosenwinkel records in a variety of situations, either from inclination or to keep himself and his audience fresh or both. In 2022 alone, he released three unusually diverse albums: Plays Piano, a solo outing on which he plays piano only; The Chopin Project, a co-led disc with pianist Jean-Paul Brodbeck exploring the work of Frederic ...
Bill Evans: Waltz For Debby
by Mark Corroto
In a very unscientific survey, 9 out of 10 jazz connoisseurs listed Waltz For Debby by the Bill Evans Trio as one of their desert island picks. For more than sixty years it has been a best seller and this reissue, like its companion release Sunday At The Village Vanguard (Craft Recordings, 2023), is part of ...
