Results for "Danny Grissett"

Guitar Forms 2024

by Jerome Wilson
May 23, 2024

These are a few recent releases where guitars have a featured role. Jeanfrancois Prins Blue Note Mode GAM Records 2024 Guitarist Jeanfrancois Prins is from Belgium but his music comes straight out of the American jazz tradition. He recorded this album at the legendary Rudy Van Gelder studio ...

Jim Rotondi: Finesse

by Jack Bowers
April 6, 2024

Finesse is trumpeter Jim Rotondi's ninth recording as a leader but his first using a full orchestra including strings. The band and string section are from Austria, where Rotondi presently lives, performs, and teaches, and each one is quite good. As for Rotondi, besides playing superb trumpet--open or muted--he wrote every song on the album save ...

Nikos Chatzitsakos: Tiny Big Band 2

by Jack Bowers
February 18, 2024

Cleaving to the premise that one Tiny Big Band deserves another, bassist Nikos Chatzitsakos is back with Tiny Big Band 2, the second album by his feisty nonet and a follow-up to the well-received Tiny Big Band! (self-produced), recorded in 2022. This time, Chatzitsakos uses two vocalists instead of one, rotating them on ...

Somewhere

January 15, 2024

Album: Bernstein in Vienna
By Peter Erskine
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 07:33

Th Blackbird Knows Them All

By Barbara Bruckmueller

Label: Bicolorious Music Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Th Blackbird Knows Them All; Silence Is Not An Option; Hymn To Freedom; Hans From Germany Or Are You Inspired Know?; My Mr. Always Right;

Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XII: Sketches of Miles

By Theo Croker

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Pinocchio/Milestones; Footprints; My Funny Valentine; So What; Miles Ahead Suite; Sketches of Spain Suite; Porgy and Bess Suite; All Blues.

Luca Santaniello Tilt Trio at Villa Ranzanici Castenedolo - Castejazz 2022

by Danilo Codazzi
September 18, 2022

Luca Santaniello Tilt Trio at Villa Ranzanici, Castejazz Festival 2022

by Danilo Codazzi
September 10, 2022

Racing a Butterfly

By Anne Mette Iversen

Label: Bjurecords
Released: 2020
Track listing: Triangular Waves; Racing a Butterfly; Parallel Flying Part 1; Parallel Flying Part 2; Butterfly Interlude; Dancing Butterflies; Cluster; Reworking of a Butterfly; Butterflies Too.

Roundup Time

by Jerome Wilson
August 21, 2020

Although the coronavirus has brought live music to a virtual standstill, recorded jazz has continued to pour out over the last few months. Here is a roundup of several recent releases that deserve some attention. Troy Roberts Stuff I Heard Toy Robot Music 2020 Troy Roberts goes ...