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theSuiteUnraveling at the Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC
by Budd Kopman
theSuiteUnraveling at the Cornelia Street CaféCornelia Street CaféNew York City, New YorkNovember 30, 2007 theSuiteUnraveling is guitarist/composer Lily Maase's working quintet comprised of Peter Van Huffel (alto and soprano saxophones), whose own album Silvester Battlefield (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2007) was released to high acclaim, Evan Smith (tenor saxophone), Matt ...
Bruce Eisenbeil: Inner Constellation Volume 1
by Budd Kopman
The astonishing Inner Constellation Volume One most definitely qualifies as difficult music. Not due to normal reasons including complexity, intricacy, abrasiveness or lack of musical touchstones, but rather that the title track, at forty-seven-plus minutes, needs to be listened to in toto. Guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil has much to say about the compositional impulse ...
Anders Bergcrantz on Dragon Records
by Budd Kopman
Trumpeter/flugelhornist Anders Bergcrantz (born 1961, Malmö, Sweden) grew up in a musical family which included his father, Sven Bergcrantz (1931-1998), a well known jazz pianist in Sweden, and his two older brothers, Håkan and Thomas, who play tenor saxophone and drums, respectively. His music is solidly mainstream, which means only that the musical ...
Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra at the Jazz Standard, NYC
by Budd Kopman
The Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra at the Jazz StandardThe Jazz StandardNew York City, New York November 20, 2007 This year's Thanksgiving week stand at the Jazz Standard, the third year in a row for the band, started off with what can only be described as a magical experience. The club ...
Lily Maase: Unbind
by Budd Kopman
With the release of the outstanding Unbind, guitarist/composer Lily Maase continues to hone her musico-philosophic voice. She and her quintet, theSuiteUnraveling have created music that lives at the boundaries of jazz and progressive or art rock, being neither and both, with a message that is profoundly uplifting. The band is different from that ...
John Abercrombie Organ Trio at The Jazz Standard, NYC
by Budd Kopman
The John Abercrombie Organ TrioThe Jazz StandardNew York City, New YorkNovember 15, 2007 If one did not know who John Abercrombie was, the natural thing would be to assume by the name of the group that he was an organist leading a trio with a drummer and a guitarist or a ...
Dave Tofani: Nights At The Inn
by Budd Kopman
Saxophonist Dave Tofani is one of those jazz musicians that you have heard a thousand times without even knowing it. He is a first call studio musician, and but one of the ways he is recognized is that he has won the Most Valuable Player award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences not ...
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
by Budd Kopman
On The Lost Chords Meet Paolo Fresu, Carla Bley has composed music for her quartet, plus the outstanding Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu that is just about the ideal mixture of beauty and intellect. It is almost scandalous to write about a recording and give away its secrets to the unsuspecting listener who, in ...
The Dakshina Ensemble at the Asia Society
by Budd Kopman
The Dakshina Ensemble at the Asia SocietyThe Asia SocietyNew York City, New YorkNovember 8, 2007 The Dakshina Ensemble was created as a meeting of the minds, worlds and talents of alto saxophonists Rudresh Mahanthappa and Kadri Gopalnath. The outcome of this cross- fertilization is a set of pieces composed by ...
Tirtha at The Jazz Standard
by Budd Kopman
Tirtha at The Jazz StandardThe Jazz StandardNew York City, NYNovember 6, 2007 Tirtha (pronounced “TEER-tha") is a new project brought together by pianist Vijay Iyer that is a trio including the phenomenal electric guitarist Prasanna and the young virtuoso tabla player Nitin Mitta. This amazing and very exciting ...
