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Ron Boustead: Mosaic
by Edward Blanco
Offering a musical canvas of light beautiful material, Los Angeles-based composer/singer Ron Boustead delivers a one-of-a kind musical treasure on the highly entertaining Mosaic. Containing four originals and jazz-influenced, reworked pop standards from the likes of James Taylor, Carole King, Bill Withers and Jon Lucien among others, Boustead produces a superbly presented “jazz-pop concoction" of gorgeous ...
The New Gary Burton Quartet: Guided Tour
by John Kelman
For some, retirement means winding down and enjoying what life has to offer, after a lifetime spent with the daily grind of making a living. With most musicians, however, while making a living has been a not insignificant challenge, making music can hardly be called a daily grind; it's work, to be sure, but it's also ...
New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies & Contemporary Improvisation Departments Present More Than 100 Free Performances For 2013-2014 Season
Plus Residencies with World-Renowned Performers September 3, 2013 – May 30, 2014 Highlights include residencies by John Zorn, Luciana Souza, Fred Hersch and Dave Holland; Sun Ra Centennial Concert; Jazz and the Struggle for Freedom and Equality; A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall featuring CI Students; Ran Blake’s annual Film Noir Concert; Faculty Recitals; and In the ...
2013 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival: Ottawa, Canada, June 21-26, 2013
by John Kelman
TD Ottawa Jazz FestivalOttawa, CanadaJune 20-July 1, 2013Having made the decision, in 2012, to broaden its stylistic purview to include not only music on the periphery of jazz, but artists with no real connection to the founding raison d'être of the festival, the 2013 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival continued to bring extracurricular music ...
Benoît Delbecq and Fred Hersch Double Trio: Fun House
by AAJ Italy Staff
Benoît Delbecq è un pianista di punta della scena europea, attratto tanto dal jazz quanto dalle astrazioni geometriche della musica contemporanea. Ma anche dalla poliritmia e dai timbri dell'Africa. Fred Hersch è uno dei rari pianisti che sono riusciti a operare una sintesi convincente tra Bill Evans e Thelonious Monk. Senza gli autocompiacimenti oggi tanto frequenti. ...
Matthew Sheens: Every Eight Seconds
by Dan Bilawsky
In 2009, pianist Matthew Sheens became the first Australian to win a Downbeat Magazine Student Award, but that's hardly the only honor that's been bestowed upon this gifted musician. Sheens has been racking up grants, scholarships and awards at a rapid pace, as he moved from the University of Adelaide, where he completed his undergraduate work ...
Caswell Sisters featuring Fred Hersch: Alive In The Singing Air
by C. Michael Bailey
Rachel and Sara Caswell's Alive in the Singing Air is an interesting and vibrant example of how rich a loam of invention and innovation jazz music is. The genre and its repertoire has readily endured and thrived in a variety of formats, instrumentation, source music, every degree of freedom represented over its century of existence. On ...
Ron Oswanski: December's Moon
by Edward Blanco
A modernist with the Hammond B-3 organ, Ron Oswanski introduces himself as leader for the first time crafting a vibrant modern jazz, almost fusion-like in texture, musical experiment on December's Moon. On tap are a host of exciting new originals as well as creative and swinging arrangements of music from trumpeter Kenny Wheeler whose “Kayak, and ...
Matthew Sheens: Every Eight Seconds
by Ian Patterson
Debut recordings can sometimes suffer from a little too much subservience to the jazz cannon, as musicians perhaps wish to stamp their jazz credentials from the get go, or as is the case with Australian-born, New York-based pianist Matthew Sheens' Every Eight Seconds they can announce a refreshingly personal voice. Sheen--a former student of pianists Fred ...
Caswell Sisters featuring Fred Hersch: Alive In The Singing Air
by Dan Bilawsky
Sibling acts in jazz are fairly common, but sister acts are not. The Brothers Dorsey, Jones, Montgomery, Heath, Brecker, and Marsalis are familiar to any jazz fan with a passing knowledge of the music's history, but female counterparts are scarce. Thankfully, that trend is changing, proving that jazz is not a man's--or brother's--world. Today, we have ...
