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Dan Kaufman

Dan Kaufman has emerged as a leading and promising young voice in Jazz Piano. Dan’s playing is adventurous and dynamic while firmly rooted in the jazz tradition. As a versatile and sensitive sideman , he has performed for audiences around the world, with many of the most prominent figures in jazz. From Jimmy Heath, Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride and Mark Turner. He is also an accomplished composer and arranger. Kaufman began classical piano studies at age four and was working professionally as a teenager. He then moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Fred Hersch and Danilo Perez

Patrick Cornelius: From ECM to Acadia National Park

By FRIEDRICH KUNZMANN

With a persistently active live and equally dynamic release schedule in his back pocket, alto saxophonist Patrick Cornelius continues to push the boundaries of the straight-ahead approach to jazz into a more modern context. Since his first recording as a leader--2006's self-released Lucid Dream featuring a cast of fellow Berklee College of Music Students from the ...

Little Stories

By PETER SLAVOV

Label: Slavov Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: Prologue: Glide; Gone; Small Little Things; Photos; Bye; History of Beauty; Ghost; In Defense Of The Minotaur; A.M.; Elegy.

Familiar Places

By DAN KAUFMAN

Label: Red Piano Records
Released: 2015

Barbez: Bella Ciao

By EYAL HAREUVENI

Bella Ciao, the fifth album from Brooklyn art-rock band Barbez, is a homage to both ancient Roman Jewish melodies and the Italian Resistance during the Second World War. Barbez's leader, Dan Kaufman--who recorded one of the most remarkable albums in the history of the Tzadik label, Force of Light (Tzadik, 2007), a profound musical realization of ...

Jon Raskin and Clara Harryman: Open Box

By EYAL HAREUVENI

Among the varied collaborations between poets and musicians, or the adaptation of poetry to music, the setting of Carla Harryman's genre-busting poetry to improvised music by ROVA Saxophone Quartet's Jon Raskin is outstanding. Not only because of Harryman's avant-garde poetic language--often focusing on the language itself, its contradictions and shortcomings--subverting its attempts to capture the fleeting ...

Dominick Farinacci: Dawn of Goodbye

By LEWIS J WHITTINGTON

No lyrics necessary. The black and white cover photos of Dominick Farinacci's Dawn of Goodbye evokes the early 1960s, but the trumpeter is not just striking a pose. He may only be 28, but the tone of his trumpet is that of a multi-era jazz soul. Farinacci's concept for this collection, sans lyrics, ...

Either/Orchestra: New York City, February 11, 2011

By DANIEL LEHNER

Either/OrchestraLe Poisson Rouge New York, NYFebruary 11, 2011 If you graduated school to work for a law firm or a contracting company, your reunion would probably not be a raucous or joyous event. However, if you and your classmates went on to be the employees of Lee Konitz, Lester Bowie, ...

Force of Light

By DAN KAUFMAN

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2008
Track listing: Shibboleth; Force of Light; Aspen Tree; Corner of Time; Count the Almonds; The Black Forest; Conversation in the Mountains; Sky Beetle.