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Tom Rainey: Obbligato
by Troy Collins
Tom Rainey has been a fixture in New York's Downtown scene since the early '90s. The stalwart drummer's current efforts have found him expanding his purview, collaborating with a new generation of creative improvisers. Working on original material with young Brooklyn-based artists like Ingrid Laubrock and Mary Halvorson, Rainey continues experiments in form and structure that ...
John Stowell / Dave Liebman: Blue Rose (2013)
by Victor L. Schermer
In the search for enriched jazz expressiveness, the duet format has been revived, giving the musicians greater space for improvising than a larger group and avoiding the overpowering influence of a rhythm section, while affording an opportunity to engage personalities and “swap notes" with another whose ideas and style are of special interest. Iconic saxophonist Dave ...
The Sky Inside
By Drew Gress
Label: Pirouet Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: No Saint; In Streamline; Long Story; The Sky Inside; Kernel; Dreampop;
Jacquard; Delve; Zaftig Redux; Long Story Short.
Drew Gress: The Sky Inside
By Drew Gress
Label: Pirouet Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: No Saint; In Streamline; Long Story; The Sky Inside; Kernel; Dreampop; Jacquard;
Delve; Zaftig Redux; Long Story Short.
Marty Ehrlich: A Trumpet In The Morning
by Dan Bilawsky
A Trumpet In The Morning is a first for multi-reedist Marty Ehrlich; it's the first album completely dedicated to his large group works and the first album under his name that's basically directed by his hand rather than his horn(s). The intrepid Ehrlich, who fell under the sway of St. Louis' Black Artists Group (BAG) in ...
Monday Night Jazz Sessions @ Quinn’s In Beacon, NY Announces Its Schedule For 2014
The Monday night jazz sessions that began this past October at the new Beacon, NY venue Quinn's have been enormously well-received both by audiences (many of whom by no means jazz fans) and musicians, locally and worldwide. By showcasing some of the most acclaimed, uncompromising artists covering a very wide spectrum of the music in a ...
The Claudia Quintet at The Workmans Club
by Ian Patterson
The Claudia Quintet The Workmans Club Dublin Ireland November 25, 2013 “Real fans do it on a Monday night," Improvised Music Company's Gerry Godley said in an address to the crowd that acknowledged the economic and logistical challenges facing promoters, musicians and fans alike. The Republic of Ireland's economy is ...
Drew Gress: The Sky Inside
by AAJ Italy Staff
Formazione stellare quella che Drew Gress presenta per il suo debutto sull'etichetta tedesca Pirouet, e quintetto consolidato fin dal lontano 2005 quando debuttò con l'ottimo 7 Black Butterflies. Formazione di musicisti avventurosi, spinti da un insaziabile spirito di ricerca seppur con prospettive e gradi differenti di intensità che... sembra incappare se non in un esercizio di ...
John Abercrombie Quartet: 39 Steps
by Andrew Luhn
Guitarist John Abercrombie has had a long and successful association with ECM records and for his latest release, 39 Steps, he completes his quartet with a piano. Abercombie had success with this format in the 1970s with Richie Beirach, George Mraz, and Peter Donald, but in the past 10 years his ECM releases have been more ...
John Hollenbeck's September Songs
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
John Hollenbeck's productivity would be astonishing in its own right, but the uniformly high quality of this high output places the drummer among the top tier of jazz (and not only jazz) musicians. Hollenbeck's recordings, compositions and performances defy certain expectations. He can be as seriously intellectual as a stereotypically stuffy classical musician, but his music ...
