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Steven Bernstein
by Celeste Sunderland
Prince can heat up a Detroit night with his slippery tongue and quivering guitar vamps. Trumpet player Steven Bernstein can do as much for a New York jazz club with his slide trumpet and an eight-piece band. On one of his Monday night residency performances last month at the Jazz Standard, Bernstein's group the Millennial Territory ...
Sunnyside Records
by Celeste Sunderland
A girl in a sailor dress skips rope. She's pretty, she's free, she's having fun. She's the logo for Sunnyside Records. Founder Francois Zalacain discovered her on a rubber stamp in a Greenwich Village shop 21 years ago. “It says everything we want to say. Music is about bouncing' dancing. And my wife liked it."
Deidre Rodman: Simple Stories
by Celeste Sunderland
They crest along sound waves, escape between murmuring lips, and dwell within the subconscious. Simple stories exist in the space between black holes. They linger, provoke a smile or a tear, then get swallowed up into the abyss. On Simple Stories pianist/composer Deidre Rodman tells her tales with lush, personal, careful compositions. "Girl With ...
Paul Shapiro: Midnight Minyan
by Celeste Sunderland
Jewish music is sexy. Slow, meandering melodies conjure hot, arid lands or intimate moments at the synagogue. Based on prayer, it's a mortal's direct link to divinely personal experiences with God. But its surface can evoke sensual undulations of the hips and exotic murmurs of the lips. On his debut disc as a ...
Charlie Hunter
by Celeste Sunderland
Charlie Hunter takes his mp3 player on the road, but at home in New Jersey the guitarist turns to the turntable. “I listen to a lot of music on vinyl, from the Blue Note and Verve jazz eras," he said one morning last month while balancing a telephone receiver and his four-month-old baby. ...
Marian McPartland: Queen of Piano Jazz
by Celeste Sunderland
Marian McPartland's bracelet keeps rattling. I can't hear it from my perch behind the soundboard but Shari Hutchinson the producer of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz is picking it up on the recording. “It's supposed to stay up above my watch. It keeps working its way down," McPartland explains from the other side of ...
Louis Sclavis: Dans La Nuit
by Celeste Sunderland
Pedestrians scurry through the softly falling snow. Through the glass of the car window they resemble actors in a silent film. The scene's still beauty is one of winter's finest moments. Dans La Nuit, Charles Vanel's 1930 silent movie, features scenarios which share beauty in the same sense. Recently restored by the Cinemathique Francaise, it tells ...
Fred Hersch: Live At the Village Vanguard
by Celeste Sunderland
After a seven year period devoted mostly to solo releases and songwriter specific albums, pianist Fred Hersch returns to the trio. Last May, with Drew Gress on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums, he recorded The Fred Hersch Trio: Live At the Village Vanguard (Palmetto), his first trio album since 1995. Shimmering, energetic and personal, the ...
New Jazz Composers Octet: Walkin' the Line
by Celeste Sunderland
Eight guys are a lot to fit on the little stage at Joe’s Pub. But trumpeter David Weiss and his crew squeezed in cozily last month for their CD release party. The New Jazz Composers Octet’s second disc, Walkin’ The Line, venerates a bygone era of big bands, a time when torrents of jazz streaming like ...
Sunny Jain Collective: As Is
by Celeste Sunderland
Dusty streets. Delicate whispers of silk against skin. Caravans slowly crossing the desert sands. The opening bars of the Sunny Jain Collective's debut disc As Is conjure mysterious, exotic visions. But soon the melody of the traditional Indian song "Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram" gets whisked away into lands pioneered by the giants of American jazz. Composed ...
