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Bruce Hornsby: Camp Meeting
by Troy Collins
Camp Meeting, pianist Bruce Hornsby's high profile jazz trio session with heavyweight bassist Christian McBride and iconic drummer Jack DeJohnette, may seem to have materialized out of thin air, but don't you believe them. Hornsby has been gradually building to this statement his whole career. Last year's retrospective boxed set, Intersections (RCA), revealed the ...
Coltrane: Mating Call, Traneing In, Soul Trane & My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport
by Christopher Shoe
Tadd Dameron Mating Call Prestige-Concord 2007 John Coltrane Traneing In Prestige-Concord 2007 John Coltrane Soultrane Prestige-Concord 2007 John Coltrane My Favorite Things: ...
Jacky Terrasson: Mirror
by Mark Corroto
If you had to write a headline for the career of Jacky Terrasson it might be “from brash to brilliant." The forty-something pianist took the jazz world by storm, winning the Thelonious Monk piano competition in 1993 only to make some impetuous records that wowed you with his talent. But they didn't register high with their ...
Robert Irving III: Gaining Momentum
by R.J. DeLuke
Robert Irving III is a keyboard player known in different quarters for different things. He played electric, of course, as a young man in the band Miles Davis unveiled when he decided to return to performing in 1980 after his infamous five-year hiatus. He produced albums with Miles, but also Sting, Carlos Santana, Dianne Reeves, Branford ...
Men At Work: Live Sets From Bill Charlap & Steve Kuhn
by C. Andrew Hovan
A perfect locale for the jazz improviser, remote recordings allow for a degree of expression and creativity that often goes beyond the more controlled atmosphere of a recording studio. Over the years, it has almost become a rite of passage for jazz musicians to pick an iconic jazz venue and then set up the equipment to ...
Joachim Kuhn and Majid Bekkas with Ramon Lopez: Kalimba
by John Kelman
While it's easy to categorize the assimilation of diverse musical cultures as world music, the term has become over-utilized and often misrepresented. German-born pianist Joachim Kühn, Moroccan guimbri/oud player Majid Bekkas and Spanish drummer Ramon Lopez intersect on Kalimba, an album that should dispense with oversimplified categorization. Instead, assessed on its own merits as an album ...
Bruce Hornsby: Camp Meeting
by Mark F. Turner
The funny thing about roots is that you don't know how they really look until you shake loose all of the dirt. Who knew that the “popular music" pianist/songwriter/singer, Bruce Hornsby, was a jazz musician at heart? Many may recall the Grammy Award winning artist from his 1986 platinum hit and album of the same title ...
David Witham: Completing The Circle
by Jason Crane
On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews keyboardist and composer David Witham. Witham is George Benson's musical director, a gig he's held down for more than 20 years. His resume includes everyone from Michael Brecker and Eddie Harris to k.d. lang, Jose Feliciano and Paul Anka. On his new ...
Avishai Cohen: Sketch of Tel Aviv & After The Big Rain
by Jeff Stockton
Third World LoveSketches of Tel AvivSmalls2007 Avishai CohenAfter the Big RainAnzic2007 Smalls in the late '90s was one of those magical places where talented musicians were given an opportunity to ...
Louis Hayes: Maximum Firepower and The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco
by Ken Dryden
Louis Hayes spent six productive years as the drummer for Cannonball Adderley, appearing on around two dozen albums with the alto saxophonist between 1959 and 1965. Hayes' first record date with Adderley was The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco and the drummer has since recorded extensively as a leader, particularly over the last decade. In ...
