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Craig Green/David King: Craig Green + David King
by Elliott Simon
While the best solo jazz recordings reveal an artist's inner thoughts, the most outstanding duos endure as memorable conversations. Guitarist Craig Green and drummer David King allow us to eavesdrop on a wide variety of semi-structured discourses with this stylistically varied, self-titled release. King holds forth on drums, percussion, vibes and piano and, as is apropos ...
The Stryker/Slagle band: The Scene
by Elliott Simon
Consummate professionals, guitarist Dave Stryker and saxophonist Steve Slagle continue to raise the bar of instrumental interplay with The Scene. This pair eschews gimmickry for chops and produces some of the best post-bop anywhere. Joe Lovano, himself one of the busiest and best tenor saxophonists around, joins them again, as he did on their previous release, ...
Bass String Duos: Dark Wood Explorations and Jonathan Chen Orchestra
by Elliott Simon
Judith Insell Joe Fonda Duo Dark Wood Explorations Self Produced 2008 Jonathan Chen and Tatsu Aoki Jonathan Chen Orchestra Asian Improv aRts 2007 Two very different bassists, Joe Fonda and Tatsu Aoki, each pairs with ...
Versatile Big Bands: American Agonistes and Worth the Wait
by Elliott Simon
The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra American Agonistes: Music in Time of War Leo Records 2007 Peter Erskine Tim Hagans & The Norrbotten Big Band Worth The Wait Fuzzy music 2008 If your idea of a big band begins ...
Prose Inspired Projects: Scott Fields/Henning Sieverts
by Elliott Simon
Scott Fields Ensemble Beckett Clean Feed 2007 Henning Sieverts Symmetry Pirouet 2007 Both of these releases have prose as their muse and include drummer John Hollenbeck as a sideman. ...
Orkestar Zirkonium: Orkestar Zirkonium
by Elliott Simon
Balkan brass bands are large aggregations with lots of brass, a tuba/drum/percussion backbeat (one of the most infectious things on earth) and hot soloing by trumpets, saxophones, clarinets and assorted other instruments. They have for some time been drawing large crowds in NYC nightspots such as the Knitting Factory, Brooklyn's Barbes and even boast their own ...
Susie Ibarra
by Elliott Simon
Percussionist Susie Ibarra is an artist whose compendium of work is defined by an exquisitely global essence. It includes a profound respect for indigenous people and their music, coupled with a cutting edge sense of the avant-garde. Her works are not a distillation or homogenization of various cultures but a celebration and appreciation of diversity. Ibarra ...
Yoon Sun Choi/Jacob Sacks: Imagination: The Music of Joe Raposo
by Elliott Simon
There is a certain paradoxical synergy that exists between the tunes on Imagination and the avant-cum-free interpretations given them by vocalist Yoon Sun Choi and pianist Jacob Sacks. Choi and Sacks work so well together in their own charming, but somewhat weird, way that they turn this tribute to composer Joe Raposo into much more than ...
Albert Rivera: Re-Introduction
by Elliott Simon
Summer jazz camps where senior players influence the up-and-coming generation and pick and choose some to “go on the road" have become a common musical trajectory for some of the finest young jazz musicians. One such training ground is Connecticut's Litchfield Jazz Camp where many of the players on saxophonist Albert Rivera's Re-Introduction met, formed tight ...
Bucky Pizzarelli: Dean Of The Seven-String
by Elliott Simon
Close to 65 years ago a 17 year-old guitarist named John “Bucky" Pizzarelli was tapped by big band leader Vaughn Monroe to sit in for a weekend. As a result, the jazz world gained what was to become one of its most significant practitioners, one who continues to perform and share his wisdom with a modesty ...
