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Myron Walden: This Way
by AAJ Staff
Myron Walden is a refreshing, individualistic alto saxophonist, perhaps the most original player on his instrument to come along since Kenny Garrett. Walden's sound, plaintive, shot through with a bluesy wail, is fully his own; there's nothing quite like it in jazz today. He takes lots of chances, often leaping outside the changes or bursting into ...
Rick Parker Collective: New York Gravity
by Elliott Simon
Happily, trombone-led sessions are making a comeback in modern jazz circles these days, and a listen to the Rick Parker Collective's New York Gravity provides ample evidence of why. A relative newcomer to the NYC environs, Parker has put together a disc with a swinging little big band feel intertwined with a hard bop modernistic edge. ...
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee: Borrowed Time
by Paul Olson
Bay Area bassist Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee writes in the liner notes to Borrowed Time, his second CD, that its music “grew out of a creative need to manifest the feelings [he] experienced becoming a father ; to convey “the joy, confusion, intimacy and sleeplessness of this defining period of life. I can't hear any of that on ...
John O'Gallagher's Axiom: Line Of Sight
by AAJ Staff
John O'Gallagher's latest album sounds focused on a narrow band of sound, in that the compositions are all built around an interval of a fourth, with a series of syncopations appearing in each line. These similar-sounding building blocks are then taken apart, reassembled, and subjected to an astonishing variety of treatments, so that through differences in ...
Gian Tornatore: Sink Or Swim
by Stephen Latessa
Sink Or Swim is the debut album by saxophonist Gian Tornatore. He and his band, featuring Jon Anderson on piano and Fender Rhodes, Zack Wallmark on bass, and David Christian on drums, create music rife with exploratory brooding. Particularly with the pulses of the Fender Rhodes in the mix, the album calls to mind the late ...
Ben Waltzer Trio: One Hundred Dreams Ago
by Stephen Latessa
Pianist Ben Waltzer is a multimedia force to be reckoned with. In addition to recording and gigging with his trio, Waltzer also finds the time to pen articles for the New York Times and has appeared as the musical director for fashion designer Issac Mizrahi's show on the Oxygen television network. Impressively, with all of these ...
Alexander Schimmeroth Trio: Arrival
by John Kelman
We live in a time where immediate results are paramount. If a movie doesn't go blockbuster in its first weekend, it's considered a failure. There was actually a time when a film could gain its audience gradually--sometimes over a period of months--and become a sleeper hit. Similarly with television: if a show doesn't garner strong ratings ...
John O'Gallagher's Axiom: Line of Sight
by James Taylor
John O'Gallagher's contribution to Fresh Sound New Talent finds the saxophonist again working with his Axiom quartet--Tony Malaby on tenor and soprano sax, John Hebert on bass, and Jeff Williams on drums. Line of Sight is O'Gallagher's second Axiom release, his first for FSNT. This latest effort from O'Gallagher and Axiom showcases the ...
John O'Gallagher's Axiom: Line of Sight
by John Kelman
Like his previous release, Abacus, alto saxophonist John O'Gallagher pursues a cerebral blend of free exploration over a foundation of structured composition on Line of Sight, his second recording with his group Axiom. O'Gallagher and his quartet -- tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby, bassist John Hebert and drummer Jeff Williams -- navigate their way through charts that ...
David Weiss: The Mirror
by Michael Holman
Stills from the film Stalker, by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, decorate the cover of the second album from trumpeter David Weiss; and the film also lends its title to the first and most compelling track on the disc. Perhaps wisely, Weiss refrains from the otherwise obvious choice of using it for the album title as well--probably ...
