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Alex Kontorovich: Deep Minor
by Jim Santella
With his program of eight original compositions, clarinetist and alto saxophonist Alex Kontorovich combines klezmer with modern jazz on Deep Minor, his debut as leader. While expressing the exotic nature of his quartet's unique sound, the title also reflects the spiritual feelings evident in the music. Progressive in concept, the album soars with ...
Jazz Pianist / Composer Ezra Weiss Celebrates New Album with Tour
"Weiss proves himself as a confident composer and arranger in the progressive jazz mainstream." - Nate Chinen, New York Times “Don't be fooled. He's only playing a few notes, but boy are they the right ones." - Neil Tesser, Listen Here! Join jazz pianist/composer Ezra Weiss as he celebrates the release of ...
Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Shamokin!!!
by Troy Collins
Bassist Moppa Elliott's cheeky quartet, Mostly Other People Do The Killing (MOPDTK) aims to drag jazz kicking and screaming out of the concert hall and back into the street. In the liner notes to their first self-titled album (Hot Cup, 2005) Elliott wrote ..."I like my jazz with some dirt on it, sometimes a lot of ...
Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura Duo
by Jim Santella
Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura Café Metropol Los Angeles, California September 8, 2007 Using every inch of her piano's keyboard and every nuance of his trumpet's capabilities, Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura appeared at Café Metropol in Los Angeles to begin an extended tour in the name of avant- garde ...
Ezra Weiss: Get Happy
by Michael P. Gladstone
Enthusiasts of the Great American Songbook will thoroughly enjoy Ezra Weiss' Get Happy, his third release. Even though six of the ten tracks on this album are standards, two Weiss originals fit within the same boundaries. It is only on the last two tracks, also Weiss originals, where the album veers into other musical territory.
Ingrid Jensen: Viking Spirit
by Jason Crane
For years, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen wanted to bring together her friend, pianist Maggi Olin, and her sister, saxophonist Christine Jensen, for an album celebrating their shared Nordic ancestry. That album is Flurry (ArtistShare, 2007), by their band Nordic Connect. It's another deep and moving recording from the Juno-Award-winning Jensen. All About Jazz contributor Jason Crane talked ...
Claire Ritter: Waltzing The Splendor
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist/composer Claire Ritter's expansive artistic vision comes into sharp focus on her ninth CD release, Waltzing the Splendor. It's music that won't slip into a neat category, though “classical jazz"--if you must apply a label--might be as good a fit as you'll find for her highly melodic approach. And that sharp focus is laid ...
September 2007
by AAJ Staff
Jenny Scheinman at Joe's Pub Drawing from a deep reservoir of musicians, violinist Jenny Scheinman has experimented with innumerable permutations at her regular Tuesday night Barbès gigs. This past April she found something special when combining upright bassist Todd Sickafoose, guitarist Nels Cline and drummer Jim Black (the first meeting of Cline and Black), so she ...
Judi Silvano: Women's Work: Live at Sweet Rhythm
by Suzanne Lorge
Each year since 2003 vocalist Judi Silvano has presented a concert featuring the music of female jazz composers during Women's History Month in March. In 2006 she recorded this effort live at New York City's Sweet Rhythm and the result is Women's Work, a collection of eleven inviting songs written by Abbey Lincoln, Blossom Dearie, Sheila ...
Alex Kontorovich: Deep Minor
by Troy Collins
The Radical Jewish Cultural movement, spurred into existence by avant-garde composer John Zorn, is already in its second decade and steadily progressing into the future. Russian-born saxophonist/clarinetist Alex Kontorovich is part of a new generation embracing the wild and wooly rhythms and primal harmonic inflections of an ancient ethnic subculture. Co-founder of the Klez ...
