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Mark Soskin: One Hopeful Day
by Jerry D'Souza
Pianist Mark Soskin has had a long and colorful career. Over the expanse of thirty-plus years he has been in varied settings. He was in the Latin music band Azteca before he went on to a fourteen-year association with Sonny Rollins. He has lived in New York City since 1981, where he continued to mark his ...
Bobby Hutcherson: For Sentimental Reasons
by Jerry D'Souza
Bobby Hutcherson says that he always wanted to record an album of ballads and love songs. That dream has been realized with this recording, which he calls his love record. It comes across as more; it is a love-in for the listener as well. Hutcherson is a player who makes every note count, whose every touch ...
July 2007
by AAJ Staff
Iva Bittova at Knitting Factory Iva Bittová is an artist of many talents. As a singer and violinist, she's recorded improv, classical and adaptations of folk songs from her native Czech Republic. But it's in her solo concerts that the various aspects of her work all come together. And - with the exception of a brief ...
The Nels Cline Singers: Draw Breath
by Troy Collins
Draw Breath, the third album from guitarist Nels Cline's ironically named instrumental trio, The Nels Cline Singers, offers another superlative collection of diverse electro-acoustic improvisation. Cline has been the subject of an unprecedented amount of press for an avant-garde musician, courtesy of his recent stint as lead guitarist for Wilco and his designation as ...
Kenny Dorham: Jazz Contrasts
by David Rickert
Producer Orrin Keepnews was never one to indulge much in blowing sessions, but this 1957 recording from trumpeter Kenny Dorham comes pretty close. With a lineup featuring Sonny Rollins, Oscar Pettiford, Hank Jones, and Max Roach, why not just give the guys a few standards and turn them loose? Dorham had been recruited for Riverside from ...
Mark Soskin: One Hopeful Day
by Jim Santella
Currently serving on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, pianist Mark Soskin knows a thing or two about what keeps jazz alive and well in today's competitive entertainment market. His straight-ahead quartet interprets this program of nine standards and originals with fire in their eyes and adrenalin in their fingers. As ...
David Witham: Spinning the Circle
by Mark F. Turner
Pianist David Witham has worked in many settings and musicians, including maintaining the position of pianist/musical director for contemporary jazz guitarist George Benson for over twenty years. But other sides of his creativity surface on Spinning the Circle, proving, once again, why one shouldn't pigeon-hole a musician into any specific category. Like the ...
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2007
by Gary Firstenberg
At the 38th Annual Jazz & Heritage Festival, hundreds of talented performers, both regional and national, uncorked some vintage music ranging from jazz, blues, rock and gospel to a generous sprinkling of world music, zydeco and Cajun tunes--all reflecting the unique flavor of the culture of New Orleans. 375,000 revelers (the largest crowd in several years) ...
World Saxophone Quartet: Political Blues
by Jim Santella
Long recognized as an avant-garde fixture with creativity up the wazoo, the World Saxophone Quartet has a language all its own. Its four-part harmony flows worlds apart from the norm while its improvised antics reach right out into your soul and grab hold. The quartet's albums can usually be ranked at the top before you even ...
The Nels Cline Singers: Draw Breath
by John Kelman
2007 is shaping up to be the year for outstanding releases by guitarists in and around the jazz sphere. Steve Khan, John Abercrombie and David Torn have already released some of their best work in years. Add to that Nels Cline, whose New Monastery (Cryptogramophone, 2006) was on many critics' “best of" lists. Draw Breath pares ...
