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Anat Cohen & The Anzic Orchestra: Noir
by Jack Bowers
Frankly, I had no idea what to expect from Anat Cohen's first big band album. But if I'd had any expectations, they'd have easily been surpassed by the time the opening track reached its midway point. Cohen plays clarinet on that selection, and it's easy to understand why music critics have named her one of Down ...
Slappin' That Bass: Earl May, Jim Donica, Esperanza Spalding & John Menegon
by Andrew Velez
Earl May Swinging The Blues Arbors 2007 Jim Donica Stepping Up Apria 2007 Esperanza Spalding Junjo Ayva 2006 John Menegon Soul Advice ...
Slide Hampton: Drum Suite
by Francis Lo Kee
For Drum Suite, Slide Hampton set out to make an album to feature the drumming of Max Roach, but he accomplished much more: a display of why teamwork is at the essence of powerful jazz. Besides the framing of Roach's melodic and multi-dynamic drumming, the album succeeds in featuring the entire ensemble as part of a ...
Industrial Jazz Group: Industrial Jazz A Go Go!
by Andrey Henkin
For those expecting to read about Ministry tunes played by full trumpet sections, stop right now. The Industrial Jazz Group has absolutely nothing to do with industrial music per se. I might posit that the adjective refers to an almost assembly line-like amalgamation of every known big band style into one mechagodzilla that destroys Tokyo.
Charles Tolliver: With Love
by Joel Roberts
Charles Tolliver burst onto the scene in the '60s as a young trumpet player to be reckoned with, appearing on seminal Blue Note albums by the likes of Jackie McLean, Horace Silver and Andrew Hill. He later fronted the adventurous Music Inc. quartet and founded his own label, Strata East, with pianist Stanley Cowell, before more ...
Kenny Werner: Lawn Chair Society
by Jim Santella
With this upbeat program of original material, pianist Kenny Werner takes his quintet through a swinging confrontation that combines modern innovation with classical training. His music is timeless. Working with an all-star lineup on Lawn Chair Society that features trumpeter Dave Douglas, saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade, he's at the top ...
Bebo Valdes & Frederico Britos: We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together
by Jerry D'Souza
Bebo Valdes and Federico Britos are an inspired pairing. Valdes, who has been living in Stockholm since 1963, is one of the prime figures of Cuban jazz. The pianist made his biggest impact in the '40s and '50s, before he left the country in 1960. He kept to himself until 1994, when he emerged from his ...
Nancy Wilson: Turned To Blue
by Andrew Velez
Call Nancy Wilson an old fashioned singer. She sings on key. You can understand every lyric. There's no trickery, just putting the song out there straight ahead. Her careful considerations of what she's singing result in a crispy heat that resides in the domain of the peerless Carmen McRae's elegant “less is more style.
Brian Bromberg: Downright Upright
by Jim Santella
Retro-inspired grooves can mean a lot of things--it depends on how far back one wants to go. On Downright Upright, bassist Brian Bromberg takes a retro tour of the era when Freddie Hubbard and Herbie Hancock were reaching a peak. Joe Zawinul and Eddie Harris were changing the scope of jazz. Weather Report was ...
Don Byron: Moving Towards the Idiomatic
by Paul Olson
Don Byron is one the most familiar names in contemporary jazz music and by far the most prominent clarinetist of the last 20 years. Born in the Bronx--and proud of it--Byron was introduced to an eclectic world of music and culture at a very young age by his pianist mother and bass-playing father. His early years ...
