Results for "Gregory Hutchinson"

Mark Sullivan's Best Releases of 2020

by Mark Sullivan
December 30, 2020

Despite the circumstances, this was a high volume year for album releases, rich in both quantity and quality. Mine is not a ranked listing, but more or less in reverse chronological order. Since I wrote fewer album reviews than average, for the first time I have included several releases that I did not review myself.

Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio: Angels Around

by Geno Thackara
July 8, 2020

However much Kurt Rosenwinkel has audaciously wandered away from familiar tracks in his career, the spirit of jazz has always stayed central to his roots and his playing. For every surprising exploration such as the electronic Heartcore (Verve, 2003) or the richly dense Caipi (Heartcore, 2017), there's been a relatively straightforward jam or standards date for ...

Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio: Angels Around

by Mark Sullivan
May 28, 2020

Jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel's previous album Caipi (Heartcore Records, 2017) was unique in his discography. Not just original music—that was true of many of his previous records—but Brazilian influenced, and featuring his vocals. This set is a call back to the Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio's Reflections (WOMMUSIC, 2009): a selection of mostly modern jazz standards, played ...

Making Friends with a Giant: How I first met Michael Brecker

by Bob Reynolds
April 8, 2020

Bob Reynolds is one of those great tenor saxophone players and teachers you should know but perhaps don't. He's in that class of great musicians like drummer Anwar Marshall, tenor player Tivon Pennicott, and Scottish guitarist Kevin Mackenzie who work steadily, gigging and releasing an increasingly excellent body of work you should definitely check out if ...

Aaron Diehl: The Vagabond

by Mike Jurkovic
February 16, 2020

Cardinally invested, engaged and resolute on making the classical hop and the swing vice versa, pianist Aaron Diehl, double bassist Paul Sikivie and drummer Gregory Hutchinson take a deep dive into the many accords and asymmetries shared by Philip Glass and George Gershwin and come up victorious. Flush with tradition and vision, pianist Diehl's ...

Gregory Hutchinson

Born: June 16, 1970

Ever since his professional debut as a teen-aged sideman for trumpeter Red Rodney, Greg Hutchinson has offered eloquent testimony that youth must have its say. Today he is still a young man, and still thick with the freshness of invention that was evident from the start. However, his youth is balanced with a maturity gained from valuable associations with the likes of Betty Carter and Joe Henderson.

Born June 16th, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York, Hutchinson grew up on a rich diet of '70s soul-which is undoubtedly the source of that homeboy fire he blends into his swing. He was musically inspired early by both of his parents

A World of Piano Trios II

by Mark Sullivan
February 6, 2020

Several parts of the world heard from in this installment: Sweden, Norway, France, and the United States. Esbjorn Svensson Trio (E.S.T.) e.s.t. live in Gothenburg ACT Music 2019 Before Swedish jazz pianist Esbjörn Svensson's untimely death in 2008, e.s.t. was a sensation. They brought an eclecticism and rock-like ...

Come What May

By Joshua Redman

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Circle of Life; I'll Go Mine; Come What May; How We Do; DGAF; Stagger Bear; Vast.

Marco Pacassoni Group: Frank & Ruth

by Mario Calvitti
September 26, 2019

A oltre 25 anni dalla scomparsa di Frank Zappa, l'eredità musicale che ci ha lasciato il genio di Baltimora è ancora più viva che mai, grazie ai numerosi dischi tributo diretti o indiretti che continuano ad apparire sul mercato. Alcuni di questi omaggi provengono da musicisti italiani, come quelli di cui ci siamo recentemente occupati di ...

Jazzkaar 2019

by Martin Longley
August 30, 2019

Jazzkaar Tallinn, Estonia April 23-28, 2019 Towards the second half of Jazzkaar, there was an invasion of starry Americans, overwhelming the normally quite striking wealth of indigenous Estonian talent. As ever, the fundamental structure of this 10-dayer revolved around its two main stages in the Telliskivi Creative City, Vaba Lava ...