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Marc Copland/John Abercrombie/Kenny Wheeler: Brand New

by Eyal Hareuveni
Pianist Marc Copland, guitarist John Abercrombie, and trumpeter Kenny Wheeler need no introduction. Each is a truly original improviser with an individual voice, and all three are established leaders in their own right. They have collaborated through the years in various formations, most recently as a trio on That's for Sure, recorded by the same Dutch ...
Marc Copland/John Abercrombie/Kenny Wheeler: Brand New

by Glenn Astarita
The trio's second release for this Dutch jazz record label rings something akin to enjoying one of life's guilty pleasures. On this effort, highly-regarded pianist Marc Copland realigns with two modern jazz heroes, trumpeter/flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler and guitarist John Abercrombie. And it's clearly about like-minded peers merging their distinct voices for a unification of the jazz ...
Marc Copland/John Abercrombie/Kenny Wheeler: Brand New

by John Kelman
On the second of two albums to be issued in the same month--the first being his Hatology solo disc Time Within Time--pianist Marc Copland reprises the marvellously intuitive and subtly adventurous trio that released That's for Sure in '01. Copland's relationship with guitarist John Abercrombie dates back thirty years, and while his teaming with trumpeter Kenny ...
Stay Out of the Sun

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1.If I Loved You 2.Wistful Thinking 3.Stay Out of the Sun 4.Longing 5.Kathleen 6.Turtle 7.Janet Planet 8.Bruise 9.Blue in Green
Get Well Soon

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Tah-DUM!; Monster Rally; For You; Over Here; Interlude #1; Lovely; Song, Sing, Sung; Interlude #2; Elegy; Get Well Soon (65:36).
Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra: Get Well Soon

by Jack Bowers
Get Well Soon is the third recording by the New Art Orchestra, an eighteen-piece ensemble formed nearly two decades ago in Lubeck, Germany, as a jazz component of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and overseen since its inception by the renowned American trombonist and composer, Bob Brookmeyer. Brookmeyer loves the NAO ("It has been my good fortune ...
Bob Brookmeyer: Stay Out of the Sun

by Matthew Wuethrich
In valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer's biography, one can trace the map of jazz's history, both musical and personal. Brookmeyer has spent time in many of jazz's major ensembles, including Basie, Thornhill, Ellington and Lewis, and small groups, playing with Mulligan, Getz, Giuffre and Mingus. Along the way he has taken part in and contributed to the ...
You Go to My Head: Billy Strayhorn and Standards

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Autumn in New York; Where or When; The Man I Love; I