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Unstandard

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: How High The Moon; Polka Beamlet; All The Things You Are; Polka Beamlet #2; Stablemates; But Beautiful; Lunar; Interplay; Two Meetings; The Ballet Girl Stirs (by Starlight); After Thought; Summer Nights; Polka Beamlet #3.
New York Standards Quartet: Unstandard

by Larry Taylor
It's a pleasure when a group of great jazz players take American standards and reshape them with their own unique stamp. This happens on New York Standards Quartet's Unstandard, where the musical gambit--the direction these musicians take the originals--is often surprising. Pianist David Berkman leads the way, handling arrangements and contributing originals, all the ...
Inner Circle Music Releases Petros Klampanis's Debut Album "Contextual"

Petros Klampanis draws a sonic portrait of the double bass in his debut album Contextual set to be released on April 18th, 2011 by Inner Circle Music. Much like an impressionist painter alters his color palette depending on how light falls upon his subject, bassist and composer Petros Klampanis alters the musical context in every track ...
Take Five With Majid Khaliq

by AAJ Staff
Meet Majid Khaliq:Majid Khaliq is a violinist and composer cut from a different cloth. He has been described by legendary musician Wynton Marsalis as having a unique blend of improvisation, groove and technical sophistication." Although classically trained, Khaliq's passion and musical palette ranges from the roots of American jazz music to the greats of ...
Take Five With Katsuko Tanaka

by AAJ Staff
Meet Katsuko Tanaka: Katsuko Tanaka, born and raised in Osaka Japan, resided in California as a Rotary International Foundation Ambassador in the nineties. Being inspired by the live jazz music during her stay in the U.S., she decided to immerse herself into the jazz world. After being back in Japan (Tokyo and Osaka) for ten years, ...
Phil Kelly and the NW Prevailing Winds; Eric Essix and the Night Flight Big Band; University of North Texas Two O'Clock Lab Band

by Jack Bowers
Phil Kelly & the Northwest Prevailing Winds Ballet of the Bouncing Beagles Origin Records 2009 The Ballet of the Bouncing Beagles, Marius Nordal writes in the liner notes to composer / arranger Phil Kelly's latest recording, was inspired by an actual photograph of Phil's two beagles jumping up in the ...
Live at Smoke

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Weird Knack; The Mayor Of Smoke; Simple Pleasures; Along Came Betty; Hidden Fondness;
Carroll Street Pop Tune.
David Berkman: Live at Smoke

by Ken Dryden
David Berkman is one of many seasoned pianists with an extensive discography who deserves wider recognition from the jazz public, though he has achieved it with his fellow musicians. Berkman has lived in New York since 1985 and has long played Smoke (as well as earlier incarnation Augie's). Since he appreciates its audiences, attentive owners and ...
David Berkman Quartet Live at Smoke

DAVID BERKMAN QUARTET Live at Smoke (Challenge) Heres an album underlining the importance of the small jazz club Smoke, on Broadway and 106th Street, just as that club has found itself in a serious fix. Smoke was flooded by the buildings sprinkler system after it was set off by smoke or fire last week on an ...
Start Here - Finish There

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Cells; Triceratops; Iraq; Stone's Throw; English As A Second Language; Penultimatum; Only Human; Old Forks; Quilt; Mean Things Happening In This World.