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The Klez Dispensers: New Jersey Freylekhs
by Elliott Simon
With their exuberance, musicianship, and ability to have any audience get up and dance, the Klez Dispensers have become the house band for klezmer's newest wave. New Jersey Freylekhs draws inspiration from the experimental jazz/Jewish interchanges of the late 1950s where bop added to klezmer's established relationship with swing. A potpourri of interesting interpretations and newly ...
Joan Stiles: Love Call
by Elliott Simon
Joan Stiles' solo piano artfully interprets a clever arrangement of “Take the A Train" and perfectly portrays the full range of emotions inherent in Billy Strayhorn's final composition “Blood Count." This is after leading an octet in which tenor giant Frank Wess and baritone man Joe Temperley cut loose on Clifford Brown's “Daahoud." In addition, the ...
Klez Dispensers: New Jersey Freylekhs
by Elliott Simon
With their exuberance, musicianship and ability to have any audience get up and dance, The Klez Dispensers have become the house band for klezmer's newest wave. New Jersey Freylekhs draws inspiration from the experimental jazz/Jewish interchanges of the late '50s where bop added to klezmer's established relationship with swing. It is obvious throughout that the Dispensers ...
Mario Escalera Times Two
by Elliott Simon
Mario Escalera Ballads Blues and Boleros Vol 1 Phoenix Two very different discs from Mario Escalera highlight the breadth of his compositional skills and the inherent soulfulness of his playing regardless of format. From this tenor man who doubles on flute, Ballads, Boleros and Blues Vol 1, is a 1990 live date ...
Daniel Carter/Morgan Craft/Eric Eigner: Mysterium
by Elliott Simon
An active sound experience, Mysterium grabs hold and forces the listener to hang on for a wild multi-genre ride. Using jazz, drum and bass, blues, rock, funk and some down right nasty noise, extended drum set artist Eric Eigner has collaborated with multi instrumentalist Daniel Carter and stunt guitarist Morgan Craft to produce a transgenerational improvisational ...
Dion Parson featuring the 21st Century Band: People Music
by Elliott Simon
The most successful efforts at intertwining world/folk music with jazz artfully maintain an “of the people/by the people" feel. The best of these in turn feature a core group of talented musicians who within this structure use the complex improvisational techniques and instrumental voicings of jazz to explore new musical territory. People Music , led by ...
Billy Lester: Four into Four
by Elliott Simon
Four into Four, recorded live at NYC’s Roulette, with its sense of swing and tight rhythms, gives the impression that the Billy Lester Quartet can see for miles, but then those who stand on the shoulders of giants can. Pianist Lester is a self-admitted anachronism who during the ‘50s and ‘60s, while piano jazz evolved modally ...
Libby York: Sunday in New York
by Elliott Simon
The selections chosen for vocalist Libby York’s new offering, Sunday in New York, find this classically cool song stylist in what seems to be familiar territory. A trio led by pianist Renee Rosnes is very comfortable with itself and includes her aptly named sidemen: drummer and husband Billy Drummond and bassist Todd Coolman. The three have ...
Steve LaSpina: Remember When
by Elliott Simon
There can be something very special about a bassist-led session. Perhaps it is their knowledge of both time and melody that, when coupled with the rich emotional sound of their instrument, results in some of the most creative jazz. On all these counts, Steve LaSpina's Remember When, makes its mark. Composed in the aftermath of the ...
Reuben Hoch and The Chassidic Jazz Project: Live at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts
by Elliott Simon
Jewish music and jazz get along well together; they have been doing so for years and are perhaps now closer than ever. Jazz musicians use cantorial modes to further their own improvisational explorations, and musicians playing within a klezmer or Sephardic secular tradition include jazz stylings as part of their overall arrangements. Given all this, it ...
