Results for "David French"

David French

A Porta Aperta

By Karl Silveira

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Nymark Plaza; Perimeter; Hunch; A Porta Aperta; Trip the Light, Fantastic; Far; Shimmy; Rye And Lilacs; A Serretinha Em Julho.

Rye & Lilacs

April 5, 2022

Album: A Porta Aperta
By Karl Silveira
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Duration: 04:41

Karl Silveira: A Porta Aperta

by Dan McClenaghan
March 30, 2022

Toronto-based trombonist Karl Silveira opens his debut recording, A Porta Aperta, with no ego at all. The disc spins into life with “Nymark Plaza," featuring an arrangement which allows the rhythm section—pianist Chris Pruden, bassist Dan Fortin, with Nico Dann on drums—a good deal of room to stretch out after a brief beginning of understated harmony ...

A Very Large Gap

By Michael Herring

Label: Independent
Released: 2016
Track listing: Treefology Midden Impermanence With Both Feet On The Ground Moanin' Fearless and Kind Seedy Underbelly Button Roadhouse, Mass. Blues Bird (White Throated Sparrow) Further Than The Future Quantum Tzac A Very Large Gap

Daniel Fortin: Brinks

by Dave Wayne
January 1, 2016

Toronto-based bassist Daniel Fortin is best known for his work in MYRIAD3, a dynamic, forward-looking piano trio whose work superficially resembles that of The Bad Plus and the Esbjörn Svensson Trio in that they're young guys in a piano trio who don't play jazz the way most piano trios play jazz. Fortin's solo debut, Brinks is ...

Brinks

By Dan Fortin

Label: Fresh Sound New Talent
Released: 2015
Track listing: Verona; Ends; I Don't Know; Flecks; So as To; Smithereen; Adldmbdld; Mince; Progress Bar; But Still and Yet.

Vince Giordano: Toe-Tapping and Timeless

by Andrew J. Sammut
January 13, 2011

Welcome to the inaugural column “Jazz That Scratches, Swings and Pops We've all heard King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Beiderbecke on the Smithsonian Jazz Collection. We know the names because they're “important," but do we ever listen because they're just plain good? What about Papa Celestin, Red ...

John Tchicai / Charlie Kohlhase / Garrison Fewell: Good Night Songs

by David French
March 28, 2006

Good Night Songs documents a 2003 concert by a trio of two saxophonists--John Tchicai and Charlie Kohlhase--with guitarist Garrison Fewell. Though the lineup is unusual, the results are mesmerizing throughout this two-disc set. Tchicai rose to prominence in the 1960s avant-garde scene in New York. He recorded with Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Coltrane, ...

Vince Giordano: Hot Jazz for The Aviator

by David French
January 11, 2005

Vince Giordano, 52, has long been the premier authority on performing 1920s and '30s jazz and popular music. Woody Allen, Madonna, Terry Zweigoff, Garrison Keillor and the New York Philharmonic have all used Giordano and his eleven-piece big band, the Nighthawks, to summon up the days of Busby Berkeley and bathtub gin. Most recently the Nighthawks ...