Results for "Fantasy Jazz"

Roger Glenn: Reachin'

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 23, 2026

Sticking with a trend that has continued to thrive over the years, Craft Records' Jazz Dispensary imprint is now celebrating its tenth anniversary. Following on the heels of their reissues of The Visitors' Motherland (Muse, 1975) and Joe Henderson's Tetragon (Milestone, 1968), they have now tapped into the West Coast scene so well documented by Fantasy Records ...

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz at the College of the Pacific

by Keith Hatschek
December 24, 2021

December 14th 2021 marked the 58th anniversary of the concert by the Dave Brubeck Quartet held at College of the Pacific and immortalized on the album Jazz at College of the Pacific (Fantasy, 1954). Nat Hentoff praised the recording at the time of its release as, “Five stars... ranks with the Oberlin and Storyville sets as ...

Reza Khan

Born: February 10, 1965

REZA KHAN

Since his 2009 debut Painted Diaries, Bangladesh-born, New York–based guitarist and composer Reza Khan has written conceptually, enlisting heavy hitters from world music and contemporary jazz to weave lush musical storylines. His new album, Shadow Dancers, incorporates material developed over years and reshaped in a more personal context.

As such, the title track marks his first return to an older piece in over a decade. Like his previous releases, the album is conceived as a unified, theme-driven work rather than a collection of standalone tracks. His catalog includes multiple Billboard-charting releases, with a Top 10 single in “Drop of Faith,” and a steady run of recordings that have developed his collaborative, player-specific approach. The album draws from both new compositions and long-held ideas. “I went back to earlier material, polished it, and gave it a new meaning,” he says.

American Standard

By James Taylor

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2020
Track listing: My Blue Heaven; Moon River; Teach Me Tonight; As Easy As Rolling Off A Log; Almost Like Being In Love; Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ The Boat; The Nearness Of You; You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught; God Bless The Child; Pennies From Heaven; My Heart Stood Still; Ol' Man River; It's Only A Paper Moon; The Surrey With The Fringe On Top.

David Stackenäs

David Stackenäs was born in 1974 in Stockholm, Sweden. After finishing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm he has grown to become one of the mainstays of improvised and creative music in Sweden.

Stackenäs works in the field of contemporary jazz and free improvised music. Over the years he has developed a unique way of playing guitar – both prepared with different materials as well as conventional technique and a growing armada of pedals. With a wide range of sounds and techniques he creates music with great imagination and poetry. As a soloist he mainly focuses on acoustic guitars, using a lot of the organic sound- possibillities and timbres the instrument has to offer.

On A Monday Evening

By Bill Evans

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2017
Track listing: Sugar Plum; Up With the Lark; Time Remembered; T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune); Someday My Prince Will Come; Minha (All Mine); All Of You; Some Other Time.

Vibes Of Truth

By 3 Pieces

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2017

The Bill Evans Trio: On A Monday Evening

by Stefano Merighi
May 16, 2017

Ricordo interviste in cui Bill Evans puntualizzava l'ossessione per l'esercizio, un'insicurezza stabile, che lo faceva provare in continuazione anche il minimo dettaglio. Sembra grottesco, all'ascolto soltanto del prologo di “Sugar Plum," dove la fraseologia evansiana sgorga come acqua di fonte e dove si intuirebbe un'innata facilità per l'assoluta padronanza strumentale. Ma evidentemente c'era un lavoro febbrile ...

The Bill Evans Trio: On A Monday Evening

by Dan McClenaghan
April 22, 2017

Bill Evans, one of the most influential of jazz pianists, died in 1981. He left a legacy. The brilliant shine of his artistry gained widespread recognition in 1959 with his contribution to Miles Davis classic Kind Of Blue (Columbia Records, 1959), and surged into stellar territory with the release of his own Sunday At The Village ...

A Charlie Brown Christmas

By Vince Guaraldi

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2015
Track listing: O Tannenbaum; What Child Is This?; My Little Drum; Linus and Lucy; Christmas Time Is Here; Christmas Time Is Here; Skating; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; Christmas Is Coming; Für Elise; The Christmas Song; Greensleeves.