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Eero Koivistoinen Combo at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, NYC
by Budd Kopman
The Eero Koivistoinen ComboNorthern Lights Jazz SeriesDizzy's Club Coca-ColaNew York City, New YorkFebruary 18, 2008 Finland is quite proud of their jazz musicians, and the Finnish Consulate sponsors the Northern Lights series of concerts, among others, to bring these musicians into the American jazz consciousness. Past groups have ...
Plamen Karadonev: Crossing Lines
by Budd Kopman
Crossing Lines, the debut recording by pianist Plamen Karadonev (who also plays accordion), is a marvelous and continually surprising creation. While the music is mainstream at its base, it continually veers into complex harmonies and dramatic structures, bringing excitement and a delicious sense of danger.What might appear as a sudden supernova, Karadonev, who is ...
Sam Sadigursky: The Words Project
by Budd Kopman
Ambition is good. It focuses the mind towards a distant goal, keeping it pointed in the correct direction. When artistic ambition is combined with the talent to fulfill the plan, something special is bound to happen. The Words Project is reedman Sam Sadigursky's leadership debut, and that he chose to mix words and music is ambition ...
Mike Holober and the Gotham Jazz Orchestra at The Jazz Standard, NYC
by Budd Kopman
Mike Holober and the Gotham Jazz OrchestraThe Jazz StandardNew York City, New YorkFebruary 11, 2008 That The Jazz Standard was packed on a very cold Monday night for the early set, and sold out for the second set, is a tribute to the following that pianist/composer Mike Holober has built, ...
Eastern Blok: Folk Tales
by Budd Kopman
After the whirlwind experience of Goran Ivanovic Group (Balkan Song Records, 2006), the group, which has remained stable, changed its named to Eastern Blok. Incredible as it might seem, Folk Tales is tighter and more complex than the first album, while retaining the earlier energy and abandon. While virtuoso guitarist Goran Ivanoic remains ...
Francois Carrier / Michel Lambert: Kathmandu
by Budd Kopman
Alto saxophonist Francois Carrier is one of the most open musical souls around. When he went to Nepal in October of 2006 with his long-time musical partner, drummer Michel Lambert, to play in the fifth Jazzmandu jazz festival there, the depth of the connection he immediately felt with the Nepali people overwhelmed him. Kathmandu is the ...
Gallo & The Roosters: Todo Chueco
by Budd Kopman
Bassist Danilo Gallo is the leader of Gallo & The Roosters, whose wackily wonderful Todo Chueco literally translates into English as “all (or completely) crooked, curved or bowlegged." However, chueco is also Spanish slang for “stupid" or “retarded," which might more closely reflect the attitude of Gallo and the band. Although Gallo and most of the ...
William Carn Quintet: Lessons Learned
by Budd Kopman
It has been two years since trombonist William Carn's previous record, Other Stories (Self Published, 2006). Lessons Learned uses the same band and, as would be expected, demonstrates growth from everyone involved, but especially Carn himself. Carn has always been completely at ease with the technical demands of the trombone, hence the most ...
Steve Blanco / Jeremy Wilms: Semblance
by Budd Kopman
Semblance, from the duo of pianist Steve Blanco and guitarist Jeremy Wilms, is an intriguing, multifaceted and ambitious work. Of the fourteen tracks, fully half are improvised, demonstrating lightning-sharp musical reflexes. Blanco and Wilms share the compositional credits on six tracks, with the remaining track being Marvin Gaye's “What's Goin' On." In any ...
Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette: Setting Standards: New York Sessions
by Budd Kopman
From the first groan emitted by pianist Keith Jarrett on “Meaning Of The Blues," from Standards, Vol. 1 (ECM, 1985), to the last seconds of the ending cadence of “Prism," from Changes (ECM, 1984) and everything in between, the music and playing on Setting Standards: New York Sessions--a three-CD box that collects these two titles along ...
