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Francois Carrier: Noh
by Budd Kopman
Francois Carrier lives his life and plays his music with the Zen ideal in mind, and can sound like Thich Nhat Hahn when asked about his art: To be alive is beautiful, to breathe is beautiful, and to create music in the Now is beautiful. From this vantage point, Noh too, is beautiful. ...
Miles Okazaki: Mirror
by Budd Kopman
For many people, jazz represents in music the fulcrum of the scale that balances the attraction between body and mind. This continuum allows for a “big tent" approach, whereby one can find a place that is comfortable and expand out if one desires. Mirror, guitarist Miles Okazaki's self-produced debut release, has all the ...
Komeda Project: Crazy Girl
by Budd Kopman
Crazy Girl by the Komeda Project, a quintet founded by pianist Andrzej Winnicki and saxophonist Krzysztof Medyna, is a very exciting project. It aims to bring the music of Krzysztof Komeda, its beauty, emotional intensity and logical yet dramatic structure, to a wider audience. While the jazz ethos is universal, Komeda's music distills the essence of ...
Samo Salamon: Government Cheese
by Budd Kopman
It might be easy to imagine two entirely different reactions to guitarist Samo Salamon's latest, very fine effort Government Cheese. The first, coming from someone who has not heard him before, might center around the angular, distortion tinged guitar, the driving near-rock rhythms and the wide variety of emotions that whiplash the listener. ...
Michael Marcus & Ted Daniel: Duology
by Budd Kopman
Duology is an extremely interesting album that shows how much musical communication depends upon the players and not the instrumentation. Michael Marcus, who plays all manner of reed instruments, sticks to Bb clarinet here, while Ted Daniel plays four members of the trumpet family, including something called a Moroccan bugle. The lack of ...
Mikkel Ploug: Mikkel Ploug Group
by Budd Kopman
Jordi Pujol keeps finding talented newcomers and gives them a chance to record. Guitarist Mikkel Ploug (Peterson) is truly deserving of such an opportunity since he has an original voice with something to say. The trailer to the title Mikkel Ploug Group is Featuring Mark Turner and the album is very much an ...
Satoko Fujii / Natuski Tamura: In Krakow In November
by Budd Kopman
The cover is dark blue with a picture of a city (presumably Krakow) at dusk with a cloudy sky. Lights that have come on are glowing from overexposing the shot. The mood is thus set for the duo of pianist Satoko Fujii and her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura to present re-workings of pieces recorded in different ...
Akiko Tsuruga: Sweet and Funky
by Budd Kopman
Get down, watch out and dig what pours forth from the Hammond B3 organ as played by Akiko Tsuruga. The possessor of a million dollar smile and a stage presence that makes one glad to be in the audience, Tsuruga is a killer player. Sweet and Funky is a pure mainstream release representing ...
Sean Noonan: Stories to Tell
by Budd Kopman
Stories To Tell by drummer Sean Noonan and his Brewed By Noon group is a perfect example of what that much abused word, fusion, should be about. Here we find a grand mix of various world musics, including West African, which is music Noonan clearly loves and Celtic/Gaelic, which is from Noonan's ethnic roots.Added ...
Jerome Sabbagh at The Jazz Standard, New York City
by Budd Kopman
Jerome Sabbagh QuartetThe Jazz StandardNew York, NYTuesday, April 24, 2007 This gig was to celebrate the release of Sabbagh's latest album Pogo on the Sunnyside label. Maintaining the same band (Ben Monder: guitar, Joe Martin: bass, Ted Poor: drums) as on his previous release North (FSNT, 2005), Sabbagh (tenor and ...
