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Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day II
by Mark Corroto
If you believe most recordings by drummer/composers are positive statements, then Harris Eisenstadt's Canada Day II is more than a glass half full. It is a brimming cup of music. The disc follows 2009's Canada Day, on Portugal's Clean Feed label, with the same lineup. Eisenstadt infuses each recording with a buoyancy and high-spiritedness, ...
Healdsburg Jazz Festival Returns For A 13th Season, June 3-12
After a harrowing near death experience, the Healdsburg Jazz Festival returns bigger and better than ever this coming June 3-12, with a glittering roster of jazz giants on the bill. This year the musicians themselves are personally committed to reviving the singular institution of Healdsburg's jazz festival by donating their time and talent to assure the ...
Robin Holcomb: Distinctive Mysteries
by Gordon Marshall
Robin Holcomb's songs are knotty like tumbleweeds, braided like roads on maps along which tumbleweeds roll. She lays her songs down like baskets that have the rustic grace of birds' nests, always on the verge of promising a truth, but brimming with natural mysteries. Mysteries accrue, creating a keen urge to get at the kernel of ...
Singer/Songwriter Robin Holcomb Interviewed at All About Jazz
While she's been around since the early '80s, emerging in New York's Downtown Scene alongside husband Wayne Hortivtz, pianist/vocalist Robin Holcomb made her first major leap onto a broader radar with her eponymous 1990 debut, on Nonesuch Records. Her ability to combine left-leaning concerns with Americana traditionalism and historical concerns have made her a unique voice ...
Brad Shepik Quartet: Across The Way
by Jerry D'Souza
Guitarist Brad Shepik mines a lode of styles on his compositions. Shadow and light play through his music, and he is not averse to opening the door to let a swath of sunshine in. The mood is never static, the wheel of invention is constantly churning out ideas that surprise and delight. Shepik wrote ...
Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society: G.R.A.S.S. On Fire
by Jerry D'Souza
The Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society was fermented when a group of jazz musicians who shared the same vision for reggae got together for jam sessions at the home of keyboardist Nate Shaw. Their love of the music coalesced into a more tangent form when they presented the soundtrack to the 1972 film, The Harder They ...
Brad Shepik Quartet: Across the Way
by Matt Marshall
The opening strains to Brad Shepik's Across the Way--repeated six-string figures of wistful longing, tending toward melancholy, with strains redolent of Radiohead's OK Computer (Capitol, 1997)--signal that the guitarist is exploring darker, more insular spaces than on his previous effort, Human Activity Suite (Songlines, 2009). To be sure, that work, which takes on global climate change ...
Acclaimed Composer/Pianist/Scholar Geri Allen Nominated for 2011 NAACP Image Award - Geri Allen and Timeline - Live - "Outstanding Jazz Album"
Composer/pianist Geri Allen has been nominated for a 2011 NAACP Image Award in the category of “Outstanding Jazz Album" for her most recent Motéma Music release, Geri Allen & Timeline—Live. The NAACP Image Awards, currently celebrating its 42nd anniversary, are presented each year to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music and literature. In ...
"G.R.A.S.S. On Fire" A Jazz-Fueled Take on Seminal Bob Marley Album
Eleven Musicians of the Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society Instrumentally Interpret Music from Catch a Fire With the release of G.R.A.S.S. on Fire, G.R.A.S.S—the appropriately abbreviated Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society—have taken on the challenge of bringing the music of the legendary Bob Marley and the Wailers to an entirely new level. On G.R.A.S.S. on Fire, ...
Brad Shepik's February 9 Show at the 55 Bar To Coincide With Release of "Across The Way"
New Songlines CD Introduces Guitarist's First Jazz Quartet Guitarist Brad Shepik, whose 2009 Songlines release, Human Activity Suite, was lauded as “absorbingly eclectic" by the New York Times, and ..."as beautiful and architecturally impressive as the continental movements..." by Jazz Times, will celebrate the release of a new CD, Across the Way, with a show at ...
