Home » Search Center » Results: Brian P. Lonergan
Results for "Brian P. Lonergan"
John McNeil: East Coast Cool
by Brian P. Lonergan
Trumpeter/composer John McNeil is after a “third stream of sorts with East Coast Cool. His avowed purpose is to meld the cool jazz feel of the Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker quartet (which featured baritone sax and trumpet, but no piano) with the more decentralized approach and edge of modern free jazz. While it's impossible to know how ...
Ben Wolfe: My Kinda Beautiful
by Brian P. Lonergan
The liner notes to bassist/composer Ben Wolfe's My Kinda Beautiful refer to the record's “cinematic scape and the handiness of describing its music “in images. Many of the nineteen tracks do sound remarkably like they could accompany scenes from films, though they're not linked by a reference to a single dramatic arc. The result is a ...
The Omer Avital Group: Asking No Permission
by Brian P. Lonergan
The Omer Avital Group was a mainstay at New York's Smalls club in the mid '90s. An unfortunate turn of events with record companies suppressed the bassist/composer's major label debut, and in recent years Avital has spent more time working and studying in his native Israel. But with the release of Asking No Permission and a ...
Greenleaf Music
by Brian P. Lonergan
When Dave Douglas and Michael Friedman first met at a recording session in New York in the mid '80s, the young trumpeter made an indelible impression on the young drummer. “When Dave started playing, he galvanized the band and he had a certain presence and a freshness that is unforgettable, said Friedman, who would go on ...
Will Calhoun: Native Lands
by Brian P. Lonergan
On Native Lands, the electronics of drum programming and guitar loops mix convincingly with indigenous acoustic instruments from around the world. Will Calhoun is able to combine such seemingly disparate sounds, styles and even people into one landscape and still maintain the integrity of the album as a whole. It may be due to the unifying ...
John Zorn / Dave Douglas: The Stone, Issue One
by Brian P. Lonergan
One of the more striking aspects of the playing on The Stone, Issue One, especially the interplay between altoist John Zorn and trumpeter Dave Douglas, is the sense of immediacy and transparency about the music. It's as if you have a clear window into the improvisatory act, witnessing pure, unpremeditated creation as it happens for the ...
Zebulon Cafe Concert: This Is It: Live at Zebulon Vol. 1
by Brian P. Lonergan
A pure joy of harmonious cacophony, oxymoronic as that may be, best describes the opening few minutes of This Is It--a raucous twelve-bar blues by Butch Morris' improvising orchestra, Butchland Band. Titled “BCW and built on a simple blues riff, the thirteen-minute orchestral party is a fine example of why the Williamsburg jazz cafe has in ...
ArtistShare
by Brian P. Lonergan
In early 2005, something happened at the 47th Grammy Awards that had never happened before: an album won its category (Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album) without having been available in any brick-and-mortar record store - only through online sales. The album was the Maria Schneider Orchestra's superlative Concert in the Garden and the ...
Ron Carter
by Brian P. Lonergan
To create one of the most storied careers in jazz, a good recipe might be equal parts innate talent, hard work and the karma of being as stand-up a person as the bass you play. Ron Carter's gigging and recording career spans half a century and 100s of albums, including having anchored one ...
Maria Schneider Orchestra: Days of Wine and Roses: Live at the Jazz Standard
by Brian P. Lonergan
Big band leader Maria Schneider employs a simple formula on Live at the Jazz Standard: beautiful, multi-hued, and layered arrangements plus first-rate instrumentalists equals a vibrant modern big band session. This is not to say that the music is simple; anything but. Rather, the musicians' fluidity makes the set come across as effortless, while Schneider's approach ...
