Home » Search Center » Results: Dan McClenaghan
Results for "Dan McClenaghan"
Thomas Marriott: Crazy: The Music of Willie Nelson
by Dan McClenaghan
If you want to put your music into compartments, it might be hard to cozy up to a “jazz" CD getting tight with the tunes of “country" icon Willie Nelson. But smart music lovers throw the labels down the man hole, and maybe remember that none other than Miles Davis counted himself a Nelson fan--check out ...
Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette: Setting Standards: New York Sessions
by Dan McClenaghan
The surprise for the folks who haven't followed the quarter century span of Keith Jarrett's Standard Trio--those who jumped onboard with, say, Live at the Blue Note (ECM, 1995), or Up For It (ECM, 2003)--will be just how good these guys were right from the very start. Things just seemed to click into place on their ...
The Willie Williams Trio: Comet Ride
by Dan McClenaghan
The opening and title track of Willie Williams' Comet Ride really does blaze out of the speakers like visitor from the outer reaches of the solar system. Williams' searing tenor wails; trailing a fiery tail of sax, splashing cymbals and loping bass lines. And though the trio configuration--sax/bass/drums, without a chording instrument--suggests a free outing, the ...
Frank Macchia with The Prague Orchestra: Landscapes
by Dan McClenaghan
Listening to the opening notes on Frank Macchia's Landscapes, one can't help but hear a Stan Getz vibe blowing into play. It's not the Getz of the bossa nova sounds with Antonio Carlos Jobim, or his boppish mainstream work, but rather the Stan Getz of Focus (Verve Records, 1961), with the tenor saxophonist improvising over a ...
Pamela Hines Trio: Return
by Dan McClenaghan
You could call Pamela Hines a mainstream pianist, but that word “mainstream" suggests a limiting category and might draw a rather static map and restrict your expectations. What's the old rule of semantics? The map is not the territory. Or how about: the category is not the sound.While Hines, on this (mostly) trio outing, ...
Cuong Vu: Vu-Tet
by Dan McClenaghan
One could wonder why in the world these people are wiring up their trumpets, instruments that, acoustically, make such beautiful sounds. Ingrid Jensen plugs in her horn, notably (and beautifully) on The “Pretty Road" from Maria Schneider's Sky Blue (ArtistShare, 2007) and Natsuki Tamura on Hada Hada (Libra Records, 2003) sucks up enough electrons to keep ...
David Buchbinder: Odessa/Havana
by Dan McClenaghan
Two distinct and seemingly very different musical galaxies spin into each other on trumpeter David Buchbinder's Odessa/Havana, setting off a gravitational push-and-pull of musical momentums. It's a Cuban/Klezmer blend that stirs up the best of both musical styles--the churning, bubbling, rhythms of the mambo and the rubbery freewheeling exuberance of traditional Jewish sounds.Canadian trumpeter/composer/band ...
Claudio Angeleri: Invenzioni a Piu Voci
by Dan McClenaghan
Italian pianist/composer Claudio Angeleri opens Invensioni a Piu Voci with four minutes of solo piano, rolling with a free development of the gels into a lovely, light-stepping melody. The tune is “La Citta Sotile (The Thin City) Pt.1," an introduction to the second part featuring saxophonist Bob Mintzer, of Yellowjackets fame, blowing a dark-toned opening that ...
Dan McClenaghan' s 2007 Top Ten
by Dan McClenaghan
A wonderful year for this music we call jazz. Here's the ten that I couldn't get off the CD player in 2007. Sky Blue Maria Schneider Orchestra ArtistShare Maria Schneider is in a class of her own in the large ensemble category--in a class of her own ...
Yoko Miwa: Canopy of Stars
by Dan McClenaghan
Japanese-born, Boston-based pianist Yoko Miwa follows up her 2004 release, Fadeless Flower (Polystar Records) with A Canopy of Stars, building on her crisply incisive percussive approach that bubbles with warm melodies and an array of colors, whether on the bright Brazilian-flavored opener, “La Estacion," or the melancholic, dark-hued “Solitude," which features bassist Bronek Suchenek bowing the ...
Trending
Interview
Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
Interview
Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left...
Interview
Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious...
Groove Orbit
801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
From the Inside
The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
Live Review
Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
Featured Video
VOTE!
