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Matt Shulman: So It Goes
by Celeste Sunderland
Take a trumpet trio that could have waltzed through the revolving doors of a '50s supper club, add sparse vocals, multiphonics, and lightly perceptible electronics, and you have a jazz group for the 21st Century. Trumpet player Matt Shulman is among a group of young jazz composers who are unafraid to step beyond traditional constraints, still ...
Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection
by Celeste Sunderland
Billie Holiday: The Ultimate CollectionBillie Holiday Verve/Hip-O/Decca2005 There's a moment on Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection when Lester Young slips into his sax solo and the camera zooms in on Billie Holiday's face. Glistening eyes, arching brow and an uncontrollable smile reveal anticipation, awe and admiration. The ...
Sonido Isle: Vive Jazz!
by Celeste Sunderland
Changüi, a mix of Spanish guitar and African percussion, carries at its core a relentless churning. Toiling rhythms kick up bits of cultural history that fall in layers, like the overlapping generations from the old and the new country who made their way though the Caribbean to New York. Benjamin Lapidus' “East of el Son, Wes ...
Eric Revis: Tales of the Stuttering Mime
by Celeste Sunderland
Best known as Branford Marsalis' bassist, Eric Revis' first solo project mixes straight-ahead jazz with intense funk fusion and employs a gaggle of special guests. The vast array of sounds and ensembles showcases the bass as an incredibly multifaceted instrument that easily finds its place among a diverse smattering of situations. The album ...
Ezra Weiss: Persephone
by Celeste Sunderland
In Greek myth, when Hades abducted Demeter's daughter, the heartbroken harvest deity plunged the Earth into icy cold. But the gods were able to work out a deal. During part of the year, Persephone would reside with her husband in the underworld and winter would descend. When the beautiful being once again emerged to be with ...
Michael Attias: Renku
by Celeste Sunderland
Individual strengths can sometimes be overlooked in a musical group. The eternal quest for that momentous sound that occurs when the right guys play the right stuff at the right time can often overshadow the importance of the unique parts within the greater structure. Renku, saxophonist Michael Attias' two-year-old trio with bassist John Hebert and drummer ...
Okkyung Lee: Nihm
by Celeste Sunderland
Each of the ten tracks on Okkyung Lee's debut album sounds completely unique. Yet as Lee's cello and Doug Wieselman's clarinets fade away together--and Tim Barnes' and John Hollenbeck's percussion, mixed with Ikue Mori's electronics, rattle in an at times magical, at times frightening clamor--each track opens into the next with complete ease. Nihm undulates between ...
Owl Sounds: Cry of the Saw-Whet
by Celeste Sunderland
The monotonous hoot of the tiny Saw-whet owl can only be heard during the mating months of March through May. Thus, Owl Sounds, a revolving group of musicians led by drummer Adam Kriney and bassist Gene Janas, kicked off their new album Cry Of The Saw-Whet properly by releasing it last April. Best to be in ...
John Zorn/Jamie Saft Trio: Astaroth, Book of Angels Volume 1: Jamie Saft Trio Plays Masada Book Two
by Celeste Sunderland
Astaroth. The word itself can only be spoken with a gleam in the speaker's eye, a twitch of the eyebrow. It's as if within those eight letters, those three syllables, lies the power of enchantment. With Astaroth: Book of Angels Volume 1, the Jamie Saft Trio takes on ten compositions from John Zorn's Masada Book Two. ...
Vijay Iyer
by Celeste Sunderland
Four years ago saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell needed a last-minute replacement to fill the piano seat on his European tour. He called Vijay Iyer.It was a breakthrough gig for the young pianist. When he got home to New York he played a tape recording for some friends. “I was like, 'Guess who this ...
