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Juno Nominations and Remembering Debra Mann
by Mary Foster Conklin
The first Week of the annual WFDU.FM February Fund Drive included new releases from pianists Lisa Hilton, Kait Dunton, Ellen Rowe and saxophonist Jordan Pettay with birthday shout outs to Lil Hardin Armstrong, Jeanne Lee, Jutta Hipp, and Melody Gardot, among others. In the second hour, Debra Mann is remembered after news of her passing and ...
The Sound Of Progress: Lioness And Ellen Rowe
by Dan Bilawsky
The voices of women who've been marginalized, demeaned, abused, and overlooked will no longer be silenced. The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have pulled the curtains back on deplorable actions and practices that have run rampant in all corners of society, the jazz world being no exception. With scandals airing out hidden truths at the Berklee College ...
Enter the "Ellen Rowe - Courage Music" Giveaway at All About Jazz!
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the PKO Records “Ellen Rowe - Courage Music“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on April 15th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Ellen Rowe at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends ...
Big Band Jazz: It's Not Just for Guys Anymore
by Jack Bowers
Back in the early '90s, Stanley Kay, one-time back-up drummer for the incomparable Buddy Rich, later a manager of such artists as Maurice Hines, Michelle Lee and Paul Burke and the entertainment director for the New York Yankees, had a good idea: the time had come, he reasoned, to assemble an all-woman big band that would ...
Wishing Well
By Ellen Rowe
Label: PKO Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: For That Which Was Living, Lost; Lewisburg Bluesy-oo; Night Sounds; Tick Tock; Longing; Sanity Clause; Wishing Well; Seven Steps to My Yard; For Donald; Alone Together.
Ellen Rowe: Wishing Well
by AAJ Italy Staff
Insegnante di pianoforte alla University of Michigan School of Music, la pianista Ellen Rowe guida dal 2002 questo quartetto con cui ha debuttato nel 2005 col disco Denali Pass. Artista elegante e sensibile sia come pianista che come autrice, la Rowe si mantiene nell'alveo del modern mainstream con un lavoro fresco, piacevole e ben eseguito, che ...
Ellen Rowe Quartet: Wishing Well
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Ellen Rowe's uniquely modern sensibility echoes throughout Wishing Well. Rowe is a virtuoso pianist who blends the dreamy abstractions of nineteenth century impressionism with the nervous energy of a bebop player. She plays as she breathes--sometimes in shallow gasps indicating an extreme sense of urgency, and at other times in seemingly endless runs with dallying notes ...
Ellen Rowe Quartet - Wishing Well (Pko)
Despite a surfeit of originals and uniformly strong musicianship, pianist Ellen Rowe's latest offering exudes a disconcerting air of familiarity. Postbop is a signifier applied to a wide swathe of new-millennial jazz. Rowe's music fits easily within the broad framework, but to my ears it's also emblematic of the term. The opening track, featuring guest flugelhornist ...
Ellen Rowe Quartet: Wishing Well
by Woodrow Wilkins
Sometimes, less is more. In the case of Wishing Well, the Ellen Rowe Quartet delivers plenty of good sound, simply by playing rather than trying to be trendy. Rowe has been part of groups led by musicians as diverse as Ray Charles and John Zorn. Born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, she began playing piano by ...
