Results for "Brian Settles"

Janel Leppin: Her Own Space

by Don Ball
July 30, 2025

The first thing you learn about musician/composer Janel Leppin is that labels don't fit her music very easily. From structured compositions to free-wheeling improvisations, Leppin does it all. She has made chamber jazz recordings, worked with punk groups, and created lush solo vocal works, all in an effort to tell her own stories and create her ...

Mary Halvorson: About Ghosts

by Doug Collette
June 13, 2025

Since Mary Halvorson began her prolific affiliation with Nonesuch Records, she has refused to repeat herself except with a purpose. The simultaneous release of Amaryllis & Belladonna (Nonesuch Records, 2022) was the precursor to the expansive Cloudward (Nonesuch Records, 2024), while About Ghosts represents a retrenchment, albeit a productive one. On five of these ...

Mary Halvorson: About Ghosts

by Mike Jurkovic
June 8, 2025

It has become more than an urban legend that Brooklyn's genius-in-residence Mary Halvorson is supernaturally up to something. Some new route around something else. On her second resiliency test of the year--her first, the fiery Bone Bells (Pyroclastic, 2025) alongside hot-house pianist Sylvie Courvoisier still rattles the playlist--Halvorson's About Ghosts tells of wide open spaces with ...

Luke Stewart Silt Trio with Gerald Cleaver and Brian Settles at Cankarjev dom

by Petra Cvelbar
March 22, 2025

Luke Stewart Silt Trio plus Aquiles Navarro al Carambolage di Bolzano

by Giuseppe Segala
February 28, 2025

Silt Trio plus Aquiles Navarro Piccolo Teatro Carambolage Bolzano 24 febbraio 2025 Un concerto può trasmettere gioia, energia, empatia, spinta emotiva. Può suscitare una sorta di incantamento. Possiamo parlare di incanto quando in un piccolo locale assiepato di pubblico, da un piccolo palco dove i musicisti si sentono vicini tra loro, ...

Unknown Rivers

By Luke Stewart

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Seek Whence; Baba Doo Way; You See?; The Slip; Amilcar; Dudu; Unknown Rivers.

To March Is to Love

By Janel Leppin

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ode to Abdul Wadud; Tennessee's a Drag; A Man Approached Me; As Wide As All Outdoors; Union Art; Oh Johnny Dear; Sateatime; To March Is to Love Pt. I; To March Is to Love Pt. II; Guidance Received; Casal's Rainbow.

The 20th Anniversary DC JazzFest

by Jerome Wilson
September 19, 2024

2024 DC JazzFest Potomac Riverfront Washington, DC August 31 to September 1, 2024 Being the birthplace of Duke Ellington among other things, Washington, DC has had a long tradition as a hotbed for jazz, and been the site of several ambitious jazz festivals over the years. The most prominent one currently ...

The Continuing Adventures of Janel & Anthony

by Jerome Wilson
July 29, 2024

Cellist Janel Leppin and guitarist Anthony Pirog are both sturdy pillars of Washington, DC's creative music scene. Musical and life partners for over twenty years, the couple have spent a long time working together as a duo as well as pursuing individual projects. The universe of their combined work encompasses spiritual jazz, folk song, surf rock, ...

Luke Stewart Silt Trio: Unknown Rivers

by Troy Dostert
May 25, 2024

Bassists in the jazz world frequently have to toil in the trenches for years, building their resumes in fits and starts as they gradually establish themselves, commonly hidden (figuratively and literally) behind the players up front who get most of the attention and credit. Luke Stewart is an undeniable exception, having enjoyed a mercurial rise to ...