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Year of the Snake
By FLY
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: The Western Lands I; Festival Tune; The Western Lands II;
Brothersister; Diorite; Kingston; Salt
and Pepper; The Western Lands III; Benj; Year of the Snake; The
Western Lands IV; The Western
Lands V.
Fly: Year of the Snake
by Mark F. Turner
While there are numerous jazz trios, few leave a lasting impression. This is not the case for Fly, consisting of younger but fully established jazz artists-- saxophonist extraordinaire Mark Turner and his equally talented cohorts, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard. At just over ten minutes, the episodic “Kingston," from the trio's ...
Year of the Snake
by John Kelman
When a group of musicians works together more often in extracurricular configurations with other leaders, what do they do when they come together for their own project? In the case of saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard-- who, individually and collectively, have worked with everyone from pianist Brad Mehldau and guitarist Kurt ...
Fly
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011
Track listing: Star Child; Go There; Fly; Anthropology; 4 A.M.; Metropolitan Avenue;
Alabama.
SFJAZZ Collective: Ottawa, Canada, October 13, 2011
by John Kelman
SFJAZZ Collective The Music of Stevie Wonder Centrepoint Theatre, Ottawa, Canada October 13, 2011 In its eight-year existence, the SFJAZZ Collective has gone from triumph to triumph, each year choosing a specific artist to honor--past years including pianist Herbie Hancock and saxophonists Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter--and ...
Ahmad Hassan Muhammad: Fly
by Jonathan Wertheim
Ahmad Hassan Muhammad isn't a big name in jazz--yet. The Cincinnati-born pianist self-produced and released hist first record, Fly, in October 2010, and while the disc is very much a first effort, it holds surprise, pleasure and promise often unheard in second or third releases by others in the jazz scene today. Everything ...
Brad Mehldau Trio: Kingston, Canada April 11, 2010
by John Kelman
Brad Mehldau TrioGrand TheatreKingston, CanadaApril 11, 2010 When a trio has been together as long as pianist Brad Mehldau's--the current incarnation, with original bassist Larry Grenadier and relative newcomer (but no stranger to either of his band mates), drummer Jeff Ballard, has been together for over five years, first heard on ...
Sky & Country
By FLY
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Lady B; Sky & Country; Elena Berenjena; CJ; Dharma Days; Ananda Nanda; Perla Morena;
Transfigured; Super Sister.
Fly 2010 Tour Dates - Just Announced!
FLY - January Tour Dates 2010 Fly Trio is Mark Turner Larry Grenadier Jeff Ballard JANUARY 13: The Regatta Bar, Cambridge, MA JANUARY 15: Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI JANUARY 16: Dazzle Jazz Club, Denver, CO JANUARY 17: Dazzle Jazz ...
Steve Smith and Vital Information: Vitalive!
by John Kelman
Recorded on tour in 1988 and originally released in 1991, Vitalive! is, in the words of drummer Steve Smith, “the most 'jazz' version of Vital Information to date." It would be easy to argue with Smith, even though he's the group's leader, that VI has always been a jazz band, as evidenced by Come On In ...
