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Jazz Snobs Funk Addicts: Season 2: The Return of JSFA!!
by Ian Patterson
Jazz Snobs Funk Addicts is a Seoul-based sextet co-led by pianist/keyboardist Jiyoung Lee and bassist Eunchang Choi. Its 2009 eponymous debut mixed electro-acoustic jazz-funk and mellifluous contemporary jazz and was the enjoyable calling card of a band starting out. JSFA has spent the last four years honing its sound on stage, resulting in greater collective cohesion, ...
Catching Up With Nathan East
Nathan East is one of the world’s premiere session musicians. He’s perhaps best known as Eric Clapton’s favorite bassist, but that’s also Nathan East on Michael Jackson’s Bad and Daft Punk’s recent Grammy winning album. Of course he’s a founding member of the highly successful jazz group Fourplay. Some of his other credits include: Anita Baker, ...
Bob James: Quartette Humaine
by Luigi Sforza
Ventisette anni dopo Double Vision, la coppia David Sanborn--Bob James torna insieme, per la rinata Okeh, con un nuovo album, Quartette Humaine, in cui si affrontano con estrema cura e con accattivante generosità temi altamente orecchiabili e un repertorio musicale cristallino. Delle nove tracce del disco --nato come omaggio alla musicalità del Dave ...
Paul Simon: The Complete Albums Collection
by John Kelman
If the history books were to be closed on singer/songwriter Paul Simon's career today, he'd have already left a legacy more than sufficient to ensure a substantial chapter. While other emergent songwriters of his day--Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Randy Newman amongst them--have clearly evolved over the years, there's been an underlying approach that's remained consistent ...
2013: The Year In Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The West Coast now has a jazz edifice of its own with strong roots, International Jazz Day grew in scope during year two, jazz made its mark on (and off) Broadway, and the number of musicians lost during the year was large and painful. Here's a look at significant happenings across the jazz world over the ...
Quartette Humaine
By Bob James
Label: Okeh
Released: 2013
Track listing: You Better Not Go To College; Geste Humaine; Sofia; Follow Me; My Old Flame; Another Time, Another Place; Montezuma; Genevieve; Deep In The Weeds.
Rhodes Scholar: Jazz-Funk Classics 1974-1982
By Bob James
Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 2013
Take Five With Bill Cornish
by AAJ Staff
Meet Bill Cornish: In addition to producing solo CD, which are an eclectic blend of jazz, funk, orchestral, and world fusion, Bill Cornish is also the keyboardist for the jazz-rock fusion project The Odd Get Even. From the early '80s through the mid '90s, Cornish was the keyboardist for Crystal, a band where ...
Aaron Germain: Chance
by Ian Patterson
San Francisco based bassist/composer Aaron Germain's follow-up to his debut Before You Go (Self Produced, 2010) harnesses some of the Bay Area's finest musicians on another set of the leader's original compositions. The personnel, who includes French/Vietnamese guitarist Nguyen Le, is completely different to Germain's eclectic debut and it sounds like it too. Whereas Before You ...
Billy Kilson: Nasty Pitch
by Trish Richardson
Here's the wind up. And the pitch. Whoa, did you see that one folks? That pitch was just nasty. In baseball, occasionally a ball gets thrown by the pitcher that is so good, so perfectly placed, so unbelievable, the announcer calls it nasty. The opposing batter doesn't have much chance of hitting it, but ...
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