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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 ...
Nguyen Le: Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix
by John Kelman
Originally released in 2002 but only seeing release in the United States five years later, Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix--alongside welcome 2007 reissues of Miracles (Universal, 1990) and Zanzibar (Universal, 1992) and the more recently recorded Homescape (ACT, 2006)--provides an increasingly balanced picture of guitarist Nguyên Lê. He may be considered by most to be a fusion ...
Flora Purim: Butterfly Dreams
by John Kelman
Flora Purim may be one of the most unfortunate stories in jazz of the past 35 years. First coming to light with Duke Pearson and Gil Evans, it was the one-two punch of pianist Chick Corea's Return to Forever (ECM, 1972) and Light as a Feather (Polydor, 1973) that introduced the Brazilian singer to a broader ...
David Murray Black Saint Quartet: Sacred Ground
by Troy Collins
With three decades of recording to his credit, multi-reedist and composer David Murray's oeuvre is a varied one; his dabbling in pan-global multi-ethnic fusions and ensembles has ranged from solo recitals to big bands. Murray's tenth album for Justin Time Records, Sacred Ground is inspired by his recent film soundtrack for Marco Williams' Banished, ...
Avishai Cohen: After The Big Rain
by Jerry D'Souza
Trumpeter Avishai Cohen has had a varied musical career. He toured with the Young Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra and then went into a wider spectrum playing jazz, pop and rock. However, it was when he was at Smalls jazz club in New York, that he had the opportunity to interact and expand his musical horizons with Jason ...
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 ...
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