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Ehud Asherie: Modern Life
by John Barron
New York-based pianist Ehud Asherie swings hard on Modern Life, his third release for Posi-Tone Records. With the help of tenor saxophonist Harry Allen, bassist Joel Forbes and drummer Chuck Riggs, the Israeli-born Asherie demonstrates an in-depth understanding of the piano jazz tradition. Throughout this set of standards and riff-based Asherie originals, it doesn't take long ...
Hank Jones - Oliver Jones: Pleased to Meet You
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questa incisione della Justin Time vede uniti due pianisti, ambedue sotto contratto per l'etichetta canadese: il leggendario Hank Jones e il più noto esponente del mainstream in Canada, Oliver Jones, allievo prediletto della sorella di Oscar Peterson. Una registrazione che potrebbe definirsi “di circostanza" e che, se vogliamo, nulla aggiunge alla luminosa carriera di Hank Jones, ...
Ehud Asherie: Modern Life
by Bruce Lindsay
Modern life, if this fine recording from Israeli-born, New York-based pianist Ehud Asherie is anything to go by, happened sometime between the late-1940s and the late-'50s. From the beautifully-designed packaging--with the greens and golds of the graphics matched by those of Asherie's suit, shirt and tie--to the exquisite renditions of classic tunes and a couple of ...
Take Five With Jerry Tilitz
by AAJ Staff
Meet Jerry Tilitz: Jerry Tilitz is an American trombonist, composer and vocalist from New York City presently ensconced in Hamburg, Germany. In the course of his career Mr. Tilitz has performed and recorded with many exceptional artists including Gerry Mulligan, Horace Parlan, Hank Jones, Roy Eldridge, Herb Geller, Tommy Flanagan, Warren Vache, Adam Nussbaum, Benny Bailey, ...
Mickey Roker: You Never Lose the Blues
by Victor L. Schermer
Drummer Mickey Roker is a mainstay and icon of the jazz world, having a played with Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Lee Morgan, and many of the other signature groups of modern jazz. Yet he has always maintained his Philadelphia roots, and is and has been a regular at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in that ...
Gene Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Hank Jones: For the Love of Ivory
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
These CDs have two major things in common: they each represent the very best of jazz piano, and they're both recorded live, with appreciative audiences whose rapture is contagious. With no studio fixes and no second chances, they also provide that pure, breathless excitement that comes from working without a net. Gene Harris ...
2009 Paris Jazz Diary
by Patricia Myers
Paris, France: Proof-positive that the jazz scene here is still thriving came via five encores for 91-year-old pianist Hank Jones during the Jazz a la Villette Festival, and the crowds of enthusiastic listeners that filled small jazz clubs night after night. During my annual stay in the City of Light, I planned outings to ...
The Legend Of Jazz
Label: Eighty-Eight's
Released: 2009
Track listing: Freedom Jazz Dance; In A Mellow Mood; Autumn Leaves; Confirmation; When You Wish Upon A Star; 'S Wonderful; Someday My Prince Will Come; Corcovado; Georgia On My Mind; Take The "A" Train; Stella By Starlight; Sweet Lorraine; Caravan; Summertime;
Live in Marciac 1993
Label: TCB Records (2)
Released: 2009
Track listing: Intro by André Francis; Tommy Flanagan + Rhythm Section; Con Man; I Waited For You; Tin Tin Deo; Epistrophy; Hank Jones + Rhythm Section; Speak Low; Polkadots & Moonbeans; Bluesette; Recorda Me; Intro by Tommy Flanagan; Duo; Our Delight; A Child Is Born; Confirmation; Duo + Rhythm Section; Moose the Mooche; Blue Monk; Relaxing At Camarillo;
Pleased To Meet You
By Hank Jones
Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: What Am I Here For?; Groove Merchant; Ripples; Makin Whoopie; I'll Remember April; Star Eyes; Blues for Big Scotia; Cakewalk; Monk's Mood; I Remember OP; Lonely Woman.
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