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Scotty Anderson: Classic Scotty
by Dan McClenaghan
Classic Scotty twangs to life with a back porch, sittin' and pickin' take on the traditional “Going Down and Feeling Bad," with a couple of classic guitar pickers, Scotty Anderson and Harold Kennedy sounding like good old country boys kickin' back and relaxing; and it's a fitting opening for a set that shifts back and forth ...
Garlicks Jazzquartet: Mosaiamo
by Dan McClenaghan
It's hard to say how much the cover art may have influenced this impression, but Mosaiamo conjures urban images, a bustling city in the dark of night, black skies sliced by angles of cold bright neon, an ebb and flow of traffic, pedestrian and vehicular.The Garlicks Jazzquartet mines the saxophone and rhythm section cityscape; ...
Steve Lacy: The Holy Ia
by Dan McClenaghan
The The Holy Ia opens – fittingly, for a Steve Lacy set – with a Thelonious Monk tune, "Shuffle Boil." In the sixties, soprano saxophonist Lacy teamed with trombonist Roswell Rudd in a quartet that performed Monk tunes exclusively; and the "straight horn" man is still one of the premier interpreters of the offbeat but supremely ...
Bill Cunliffe Sextet: How My Heart Sings
by Dan McClenaghan
The name Earl Zindars might not ring a bell, unless you're a fan of the late pianist Bill Evans, who was a Zindars fan. Evans ' for those of you who check out songwriting credits ' recorded several Zindars tunes in his career, including a classic version of “How My Heart Sings," the title track of ...
Upper Left Trio: Cycling
by Dan McClenaghan
It's hard to put the finger on what makes for a successful piano trio set. Some of jazz's bona fide great keyboard players turn in less than inspired efforts, sets that just don't hold the listener's interest for the duration of an hour of music. It's probably the worst critism that can be made of a ...
Gilad Barkan: Modulation
by Dan McClenaghan
The next time you're hunkered down in a hotel lounge and you encounter a solo pianist working through some of the requisite covers of standards and pop songs, do yourself a favor and strike up a conversation with the working musician, and drop a dollar or five in the tip jar. Odds are they're in a ...
Chucho Valdes: New Conceptions
by Dan McClenaghan
Half in jest, perhaps, Chucho Valdes calls the music he's developing “Cubanglish," a synthesis of Afro-Cuban and American jazz sounds that is unparalleled. On New Conceptions, the sixty year old pianist works with his quartet plus some well-chosen guest artists, in a break from his big band, Irakere; and what you get here is a purer ...
Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra: Refractions
by Dan McClenaghan
The twenty-four piece Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra boasts a full roster of instrumentation, including double reeds and French horns, for a sound that is somewhat rare in the professional jazz world, but familiar to anyone guiding a child through a high school music program with a “concert band." Lush and multi-layered, Refractions contains a full ...
Deanna Witkowski: Wide Open Window
by Dan McClenaghan
New York-based pianist Deanna Witkowski opens up Wide Open Window with the first of three Cole Porter tunes, a trio workout of "All Through the Night" with enough harmonic liberties to rend the tune nearly unrecognizable; but it's still a lovely, energetic rendition, an up-tempo romp over a flexible rhythm. It's a trio again for "Just ...
John Stetch: Standards
by Dan McClenaghan
The solo piano can be a tough arena, especially when offering up American Songbook classics. John Stetch's Standards, the pianist's second solo outing and his eighth CD overall, succeeds by taking some unlikely--for solo piano--tunes and getting Zen-deep into them, paring things down to their bare essence, and using quirky rhythms and spare, elegant harmonics.
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