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Jon Gold: Brazil Confidential
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Jon Gold's Brazil Confidential is unique. It is an album of music that shows just how much the pianist and composer has internalized the Brazilian experience and what that can do for authenticity when it comes to an American musician writing in a Brazilian style. It may be true that the experience is largely urban, but ...
The State of Zoho Music 2010: Pablo Aslan and Jon Gold
by C. Michael Bailey
Zoho Music was founded by Joachim “Jochen" Becker in 2003, rising out of the ashes of Khaeon World Music. Since that time, the label has released almost 80 recordings, garnering numerous Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations. Zoho continues to thrive. Two recent recordings illustrate not only where the label is going but also offer ...
Charlie Banacos: Recollections of a Legend
by Mike Brannon
"You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" --Joni Mitchell “There are a dozen ways to hit a key." --Charlie Banacos How do you say goodbye to someone who truly changed you; someone who you know caused you to be a better person just for having known them? How do you say goodbye ...
Take Five With Amanda Monaco
by AAJ Staff
Meet Amanda Monaco: Playing guitar has led Amanda Monaco to perform at the Blue Note, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Birdland, Tonic, Joe's Pub, and the JVC Jazz Festival, as well as other venues in the United States and Europe. Amanda has recorded several CDs as both a leader and a sideman, and has ...
Jack Cortner Big Band / Peter Hand Big Band / Chicago Jazz Philharmonic
by Jack Bowers
Jack Cortner Big Band Sound Check Jazzed Media 2009 For someone who waited so long before taking his first swings as leader of his own big band, Jack Cortner shows again on Sound Check, the band's second impressive recording in as many years, that he's got game. He's ...
Steve Kuhn: Life's Backward Glances
by Stuart Broomer
Pianist Steve Kuhn recently explored the beginnings of his musical career on Mostly Coltrane (ECM, 2009). On this three-CD set, ECM commemorates Kuhn's mid-career work with reissues of three LPs recorded between 1974 and 1979. Life's Backward Glances is aptly titled and not just because two of the three albums conclude with Kuhn's song of the ...
Piano and Bass: Now Was the Time/Blues for Zarathustra
by Elliott Simon
Harvie S with Kenny BarronNow Was the TimeSavant Records2008 Ron Thomas and Paul KlinefelterBlues for ZarathustraArt of Life Records2008 Nothing against piano trios or drummers, but eliminating the latter can ...
Jake Hertzog: Chromatosphere
by John Barron
Twenty-two year old guitarist Jake Hertzog, a native of Champaign, Illinois, delivers a truck-load of youthful energy for his power trio release, Chromatosphere. The Berklee College of Music Graduate is helped out on the self-produced, chops-heavy session by bassist Harvie S and drummer Victor Jones. Pianist Michael Wolff joins in on three tracks. Hertzog's music moves ...
Brian Woodruff: The Tarrier
by Woodrow Wilkins
Music is often best when culled from a variety of sources. That's the approach drummer Brian Woodruff takes with The Tarrier.Woodruff has worked the New York City scene since 1995. A student of jazz and commercial music, he has toured the United States, Asia and Europe, and his associations include Harvie S, Gary Versace ...
Gene Ess: Modes of Limited Transcendence
by Dan McClenaghan
Guitarist Gene Ess put together a quartet with saxophonist Donny McCaslin for his Sandbox and Sanctum (SIMP Music, 2005) . On Modes of Limited Transcendence he ups the harmonic ingenuity factor with a different quartet, replacing the horn with a guitar, to craft an often cooking, quartet-of-equals chamber vibe.Ess began his musical journey as ...
