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Armen Donelian: Sayat-Nova: Songs of my Ancestors
by Gabriel Medina Arenas
The sound of his piano evokes treasured sounds from a small and hidden mountainous country full of cultural richness and history in the heart of Eurasia. On his thirteenth solo album, the New Yorker veteran musician Armen Donelian paid a homage to Armenia, the homeland of his forefathers. Donelian, a classically trained ...
Conference Call: Seven: Live @ Firehouse 12
by Mark Corroto
The collective quartet Conference Call performs music within the egalitarian principles of jazz as a democracy, confirming that a band can be both leaderless and led by different players without diminishing the quality and character of its music. A working band since 1998, the lineup of reed player Gebhard Ullmann, pianist Michael Jefry Stevens, ...
Brian Carpenter: In Between The Cracks
by DanMichael Reyes
To write that Brian Carpenter has had an interesting career would be an incomplete statement since he holds so many. By day Carpenter is an engineer, but there's also his radio shows, his acting career, a film he's working on about Albert Ayler, his band Brian Carpenter and the Confessions where he sings and composes, and ...
Seung-Hee: Sketches on the Sky
by Mark F. Turner
Brooklyn-based jazz vocalist Seung-Hee possesses the composure of a seasoned chanteuse while demonstrating broader qualities that contain refined arranging skills, classical training, and multilingual singing. The South Korean native represents a soulfully empathetic performer and a composer who's not afraid to take chances as witnessed in Sketches on the Sky, the follow up to 2009's memorable ...
MIT Jazz Program Celebrates 50 Years With A Corea Premiere
MIT Music and Theater Arts is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its jazz program. From the 1920s up until 1963, student-led jazz groups and student-produced concerts abounded on the MIT Campus. Over the years, the jazz groups included the MIT Dance Orchestra, the MIT Techtonians, and the MIT Jazz Society. On campus performances were presented by ...
Listen Both Ways
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2012
Track listing: Could This Be The Year?; Store Without A Name; Better Than Prozac; Edwin; Jesus Maria; A Map Would Help; Newtoon; Bed Head.
George Schuller's Circle Wide: Listen Both Ways
by Troy Collins
Listen Both Ways is the first studio recording by drummer George Schuller's longstanding Circle Wide quintet to concentrate primarily on his original compositions. The group's previous Playscape releases, 2003's Round 'Bout Now and 2008's Like Before, Somewhat After, paid homage to the seminal efforts of famous post-war bandleaders--trumpeter Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet on the former ...
Jason Robinson: Tiresian Symmetry
by Eyal Hareuveni
Composer and reed player Jason Robinson tends to weave his musical projects with multiple and overlapping narrative layers, and Tiresian Symmetry is no different. It is more ambitious than his previous large ensemble project, The Two Faces of Janus (Cuneiform, 2010), but still draws inspiration from Greek mythology. This time he was inspired by the mythical ...
George Schuller: Listen Both Ways
by AAJ Italy Staff
"Monkianesimo postmoderno": si potrebbe definire così la vena compositiva di George Schuller, messa in evidenza dal suo ultimo CD Listen Both Ways. E' il terzo disco che il batterista di stanza a Brooklyn pubblica alla guida del suo quintetto Circle Wide. Dopo i lavori dedicati alla musica del primo Davis elettrico -quello più sperimentale- e del ...
Mike Baggetta Quartet: Source Material
by Jerry D'Souza
Guitarist Mike Baggetta creates a remarkable collage of images that are framed by his composition, writing with abundant skill and bringing an immediate presence to music carried to fulfillment by his band. He has some of the best musicians here, who interact with fluidity and add texture and ambience on the road to resolution.Baggetta ...
