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Geoff Lapp: Stained Glass
by Budd Kopman
Pianist Geoff Lapp and his trio are in high demand in their native Montreal, Canada, and if Stained Glass is any indication of how the group plays live, it is easy to see why. The reasons given for entitling an album are many times not clear. “Stained Glass" evokes an image a church ...
Gebhard Ullmann At 50: A Career Retrospective
by Budd Kopman
Gebhard Ullmann (born in Bad Godesberg, Germany, November 2, 1957) is a composer and improvisor unique in the jazz world today. Playing a multitude of reeds and flutes, and maintaining an international presence with both European and American groups, Ullmann has created a body of work that is much more than a chronological series of recordings ...
Trio Mediaeval: Folk Songs
by Budd Kopman
ECM has always stretched the boundaries of jazz, and with its New Series champions much adventurous classical music, most newly composed. Trio Mediaeval's latest release, Folk Songs, an ethereal and haunting collection of Norwegian folk music, fits comfortably in neither. The Trio's three previous albums for ECM, Words of the Angel (2001), Soir, ...
Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette: My Foolish Heart
by Budd Kopman
Pianist Keith Jarrett's career practically invites criticism or, at the very least, intense comment. His outspokenness, his utter seriousness of intent and the resulting love-hate relationship with the audience, even his vocalisms, evoke strong responses, both pro and con, from listeners. As the years have gone by, expectations have continued to rise, almost ...
Hakon Kornstad / Havard Wiik: The Bad And The Beautiful
by Budd Kopman
The Bad And The Beautiful marks the second installment of unique, intellectually stimulating and very emotional musical vignettes from saxophonist Håkon Kornstad and pianist Håvard Wiik, after Eight Tunes We Like (Moserobie, 2005). As was done previously, the tunes range from older and newer standards to intriguing tunes by today's composers, plus a ...
The Komeda Project at the Cornelia Street Cafe
by Budd Kopman
Komeda ProjectCornelia Street CaféNew York, New YorkNovember 1, 2007 Jazz, because it is created in the moment by the performers pouring out their souls, has a way of getting inside you. Hearing jazz live, actually being there, intensifies the experience tenfold. Live jazz at the Cornelia Street ...
Nordic Connect: Flurry
by Budd Kopman
The word “mainstream" has come to have virtually no meaning except perhaps that a regular rhythmic pulse of some kind (not necessarily “swinging") can be felt. In this respect, Flurry is a mainstream album, but from every other viewpoint, it is as adventurous as they come. That the band's name, Nordic Connect, implies ...
Julie Hardy: The Wish
by Budd Kopman
With The Wish, composer and vocalist Julie Hardy has immediately established herself as an identifiable force of the next generation. By combining a very attractive voice with deep interpretations with a high degree of compositional and arranging skills, Hardy has created an album of grace and depth. She is a member of drummer ...
Gebhard Ullmann: New Basement Research
by Budd Kopman
The year 2007 marks multi-reedman Gebhard Ullmann's fiftieth birthday, and as part of the celebration, he has released New Basement Research, a blistering and brutally propulsive record with a completely new group, and the fourth for this project. The Basement Research project was started in 1995 with the pre-existing American trio comprised of ...
Julie Hardy at The Jazz Standard
by Budd Kopman
Julie Hardy at The Jazz StandardThe Jazz StandardNew York City, New YorkOctober 16, 2007 This gig was partly a CD release party for vocalist/composer Julie Hardy's new release The Wish and partly a label party for drummer Kendrick Scott's artist collective label World Culture Music, on which it was released. ...
