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Jody Sandhaus: A Fine Spring Morning
by Dan McClenaghan
She can sing with a hint of angelic innocence ("A Fine Spring Morning") or lay down the lyrics like the devil's sitting on her shoulder ("Whatever Lola Wants"), with an instrument that makes achingly beautiful sounds--just listen to the ending of “Deed I Do," when she scats (she's got that angel thing going again here) into ...
Raphe Malik Quartet: Last Set: Live at the 1369 Club
by AAJ Staff
Trumpeter Raphe Malik has remained an underground figure from his early days working with Cecil Taylor and Jimmy Lyons through his first recording as a leader ( 21st Century Texts, FMP, 1989) and those that followed. He made up his own name ("raphe" means “the seam of a seed," something that he picked up out of ...
Septeto Rodriguez: Baila! Gitano Baila!
by Dan McClenaghan
It's a stroke of genius, this incorporation of Cuban and Jewish music. Drummer Roberto Juan Rodriguez left Cuba at age nine and settled with his family in Miami, where he encountered exiles of diaspora, Jewish survivors dancing into their senior years to the sounds of the cha cha and mambo. A move to New York to ...
Mike Wofford Trio: Live At Athenaeum Jazz
by Jerry D'Souza
Mike Wofford played for fifteen years at the Athenaeum jazz concert series in San Diego, right from its initiation in 1989. Came the time to release its first recording and the spotlight, appropriately enough, shone on Wofford. He set his sights on New York and beckoned Peter Washington and Victor Lewis to join him. ...
Claire Ritter: Greener Than Blue
by Dan McClenaghan
Dichotomy prevails on pianist Claire Ritter's Greener Than Blue --rhythmic blues motifs versus peaceful impressionism; rags vs. tone poems; alternating west and east atmospherics; the rent party vying with the parlor. And still it holds together, thanks to the music's spare beauty and Ritter's always interesting melodic vision.Ritter delivers here on solo piano and ...
Robin Holcomb/Wayne Horvitz: Solos
by AAJ Staff
You can unbuckle your seat belt with this one, because it's not going to hurt to lean forward and listen closely. Two pianists who share more than just overlapping interests in music, Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horvitz are life partners as well. Their first co-billed collaboration on record (after multiple shared appearances) comes in the form ...
Steven Bernstein: Evaluating The Diaspora Series
by John Kelman
Trumpeter/composer/bandleader Steven Bernstein may have made his name with groups as far-flung as Sex Mob and the Lounge Lizards, but it is quite possible that his most enduring work, the effort that will be most remembered when people look back at a long and fruitful career, is his series of Diaspora recordings on John Zorn's Tzadik ...
Leslie Pintchik: So Glad to Be Here
by Dan McClenaghan
It's happened to a lot of us, getting hit really hard by the music of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. Most of us, though, don't--after taking the hit--give up the beginnings of a promising career in academia to pursue jazz full bore; but that's what pianist Leslie Pintchik did, and So Glad to Be Here is ...
Leslie Pintchik: So Glad to Be Here
by John Kelman
Joining the ranks of the heavily-populated piano trio format is a risky proposition, especially within the mainstream because there are, quite simply, so many players out there mining the same space that unless one has something new to say or a radically new approach, one runs the very real risk of becoming just another one of ...
Robin Holcomb/Wayne Horvitz: Solos
by John Kelman
Albums putting two pianists together are rare but not unheard of. Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock did it in the '70s, and Geoffrey Keezer did it more recently with Kenny Barron, Chick Corea, Mulgrew Miller and Benny Green. But such albums typically find the two pianists playing together in a context that demonstrates the paired players' ...
