Results for "Dave Liebman"

News: Recording

Whaling Ciy Sound Releases "Lineage" by Dave Liebman and Michael Stephans

July 7, 2013

Since he began to seriously pursue a career as a jazz artist back in the 1960s, Dave Liebman has been on a transformative journey towards becoming a true original in the genre. After assuming sideman slots with the likes of Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, and Chick Corea, to name but a few, he has certainly earned ...

Article: Album Review

Leo Blanco: Pianoforte

by Bruce Lindsay
July 2, 2013

The title of Leo Blanco's third album, Pianoforte, makes it clear: this is just one man and one piano. But it's an exceptional instrument, played by an exceptional musician.Blanco's 2009 album Africa Latina (Ayva Musica) and 2004's self-produced Roots & Effect featured international ensembles including guitarist Lionel Loueke, bassist Peter Slavov, saxophonist Dave Liebman ...

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Colors with artist Barb Januszkiewicz

Featuring the music of Dave Liebman
Duration: 3:24
June 28, 2013

Dave Liebman & Barbara Januszkiewicz . Here Dave Liebman and Barbara Januszkiewicz in a wordless conversation, each in their own language responding to the other in a dialogue of musical notes and paint. Liebman's solo saxophone artistry is the inspiration for the kaleidoscope of color, images. As they play off each other's voice or visual expression in an ever-changing musical palette, the music takes on a visual rhythm and colorful beat and transforms the way you look at a painting or listen to jazz music.

Article: Album Review

Dave Liebman/Michael Stephens: Lineage: Rock and Pop Classics Revisited

by Dan McClenaghan
June 22, 2013

Saxophonist Dave Liebman was yet another musician drawn into the orbit of trumpeter Miles Davis, contributing to the always innovative master band leader's extraordinary and ground breaking--but underappreciated and even maligned at its time of release--On the Corner (Columbia Records, 1972), as well as Dark Magus (Columbia Records, 1974) and Get Up With It (Columbia Records, ...

Article: Interview

Christy Doran: New Bag, New Tricks

by Ian Patterson
June 10, 2013

The opening concert at the 14th Bray Jazz Festival in May, just half an hour outside Dublin in County Wicklow, was something of a homecoming gig for Irish guitarist Christy Doran and his quartet New Bag. Doran was born 63 years ago, just a few short miles down the road from Bray, in Greystones, though at ...

News: Festival

Motown Celebrates Its Musical Legends In The 2013 Detroit Jazz Fest

June 8, 2013

On April 23, 2013, the Producers of the world-renowned Detroit Jazz Festival announced what promises to be another outstanding lineup of nationally and internationally renowned artists in addition to the generations of Detroit players who put the city on the map as one of the historically significant centers for the music. Artistic Director Chris Collins showed ...

Article: Album Review

Vein feat. Dave Liebman: Lemuria Live

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 3, 2013

Registrato live in due giorni successivi del settembre 2011, a Parigi e Colonia, questo CD vede di scena Vein, trio di musicisti di Basilea, che ospita Dave Liebman, vero monumento del sax capace di esibirsi sempre ai massimi livelli d'espressività e perciò di trasformare ogni performance in un piccolo capolavoro, specie dal vivo. E infatti anche ...

Article: Album Review

Quest: Circular Dreaming

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 3, 2013

Tra i tanti (troppi?) tributi, omaggi e onori al genio di Miles Davis, questo firmato dai Quest del sassofonista Dave Liebman, è certamente uno dei più riusciti nel cogliere lo spirito visionario e creativo di un genio assoluto e tradurlo secondo canoni che ne esaltano virtù e prospettive. Come ricorda nelle note di copertina il pianista ...

Article: Album Review

Dave Liebman - Lewis Porter: Surreality

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 3, 2013

Pur richiamando di volta in volta lo spirito e alcuni particolari inconfondibili delle varie personalità a cui tributa degli omaggi, questo disco spicca per una propria unicità e riconoscibilità nel suono e nella personalità musicale che esprime. Sarà forse per la particolarità di questa mescolanza agrodolce tra la chitarra acide e sporca di Ribot con il ...

Article: Live Review

GuitarNow! 2013, Day Two: Ottawa, Canada, May 4, 2013

by John Kelman
May 25, 2013

First Annual GuitarNow! Festival, Day TwoKailash Mital TheatreCarleton UniversityOttawa, CanadaMay 4, 2013When local guitarist Roddy Ellias--the recipient, that very week, of one of the Jazz Journalist Association's Jazz Hero awards for 2013 (the only Canadian on the list)--created the concept of the first annual GuitarNow! Festival with Carleton University, ...