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Gorka Benitez: S
by Mark F. Turner
With warmth and a rich brown tone, Barcelona saxophonist Gorka Benitez plays with empathy and a rustic quality. The veteran musician has been at the core of Spain's jazz scene for over ten years and has seen recent stints with artists such as pianist Emilio Solla y Afines and trumpeter John McNeil. While Benitez has been ...
Ben Waltzer: One Hundred Dreams Ago
by Celeste Sunderland
Sometimes we're just looking to hear a good, fun jazz album. One Hundred Dreams Ago is it. Ben Waltzer on piano, Gerald Cleaver on drums, and Matt Penman on bass all play with a fearless ferocity. But the nine tracks don't sound wild, or untamed, more confidently swinging. There's not a hint of timidity. And there's ...
David Weiss: The Mirror
by Jim Santella
With big band arrangements, David Weiss's sextet and octet stretch the boundaries of hard bop. Solid in their caricature, they romp and stomp with clarity of purpose. The trumpeter's original compositions build an intense dramatic spirit, while leaving much room for soloist improvisation. The leader's trumpet soars lyrically with passion. He imposes a storyline ...
Bill McHenry: Bill McHenry Quartet Featuring Paul Motian
by Florence Wetzel
Saxophonist Bill McHenry's latest CD is a successful meeting of three of jazz's finest younger talents with one of the music's most venerated players. McHenry, who produced the CD and composed all nine selections, has a beautiful tone, strong and clear with an open freshness. He has a fluent sense of melody, but he can also ...
David Weiss: The Mirror
by Ken Hohman
Trumpeter David Weiss is rejuvenating mainstream jazz with the tough work ethic and clarity of purpose that his hard bop predecessors brought to the Blue Note label throughout the sixties. Kind of a hard bop Dave Douglas, Weiss's specialty as a composer is stretching the boundaries of the genre without straying too far from the mainstream. ...
Alexis Cuadrado Sextet: Visual
by Peter Aaron
Barcelona-born bassist Alexis Cuadrado has spent much time on both sides of the pond, as a sideman of Kurt Rosenwinkel and Bruce Barth; a student of Larry Grenadier and Francois Rabbath; and a teacher in New York, his current home. On Visual, his second outing as a leader (after 2001's Metro ), Cuadrado is joined by ...
Spike Wilner: Late Night: Live At Smalls
by AAJ Staff
Michael “Spike" Wilner was a fixture at the late, lamented New York City club Smalls, which was a very hip little place that featured great music by young, rising musicians at reasonable prices. This CD, consisting of live performances by Wilner's quintet and trio, functions as a fitting memorial to that place. The resulting sounds are ...
Albert Sanz: Los Guys
by AAJ Staff
Pianist and composer Albert Sanz is from Spain. He's young (only 26), he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, and on the basis of Los Guys, he's prodigiously talented. As a composer, he seems to revel in the unexpected. His tunes are not cluttered with chords. Rather, they move in utterly delightful ways, with enough ...
Andrew Rathbun/Owen Howard Quintet: Days Before and After
by Dan McClenaghan
How does a jazz musician go about adding some zest and shine, and maybe a touch of modernity, to the old tried and true saxophone-and-rhythm-section format? Sometimes they use a Fender Rhodes instead the accoustic piano, and sometimes they put an electric guitar in the keyboard's place; and sometimes they add a guitar to the piano, ...
The Bad Plus: The Bad Plus
by Mark Sabbatini
Is there another group that excels this well at not taking themselves seriously? The Bad Plus are earning raves as either stupendous or just plain stupid for their radical interpretations of pop standards, making their major label debut on 2003's These Are The Vistas and following up with 2004's Give . But as is ...
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