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Michel Petrucciani: Kuumbwa
by Jack Kenny
Recorded live on May 11, 1987, at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, California, this album catches pianist Michel Petrucciani during an inspired phase of his career. It was not his first visit to the venue. While living in Big Sur--about an hour south of Santa Cruz--Petrucciani had befriended saxophonist Charles Lloyd, who was on ...
Irreversible Entanglements: Future Present Past
by Jack Kenny
Irreversible Entanglements do not deliver coded music. Frustrated by music that only claims to carry a message, the quintet--Camae Ayewa, Luke Stewart, Keir Neuringer, Aquiles Navarro and Tcheser Holmes--fuses long-form improvisation, groove, and spoken word into a contemporary extension of the 1960s and '70s Black avant-garde. They originally came together to protest a police brutality event ...
Art Pepper: Everything Happens to Me 1959 - Live at the Cellar
by Jack Kenny
The work of great artists is often discussed in terms of distinct periods--Picasso had his Blue Period, Rembrandt his Leiden Period. An album like this invites a similar framework for Art Pepper: the post-Stan Kenton era, the Renaissance Years, the Final Period. The performances captured here belong to a pivotal moment in Pepper's career. ...
Pat Metheny: Side-Eye III+
by Jack Kenny
Pat Metheny occupies a singular place in jazz history. With over 20 million records sold, three gold albums, and 20 Grammy Awards across 10 different categories--a record unmatched by any other artist--he has achieved a level of crossover popularity rarely seen in jazz. An NEA Jazz Master and DownBeat Hall of Fame inductee, he is widely ...
Walter Smith III: Twio Vol. 2
by Jack Kenny
Walter Smith III is a deceptive musician. His deep jazz roots and distinctive tenor saxophone tone mask a technique that is both complex and understated. Smith rewards attentive listeners; his mastery lies in refinement rather than display. One of the pleasures of following Smith's career is hearing him change. Though no longer a young ...
Duke Ellington: Copenhagen 1964
by Jack Kenny
All Duke Ellington concerts offered music of substance. Audiences listened patiently through the medleys and Tony Watkins' vocals. Some performances, however, stood apart because they contained material that was fresh--music not yet worn thin by repetition, where both the thinking and playing could still surprise. Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and the orchestra toured Asia (the ...
Bill Frisell: In My Dreams
by Jack Kenny
At the opening of Beautiful Dreamer, Bill Frisell's biographer, Philip Watson, recounts a formative dream Bill Frisell once had--an experience the guitarist has said permanently altered the way he thinks about sound, color, and the nature of “real music." In the dream, Frisell enters a dark building, climbs into a vast library, and encounters hooded, monklike ...
Ingrid Jensen: Landings
by Jack Kenny
Ingrid Jensen has emerged as a unique trumpet player with a distinctive sound that defines her and proclaims her nonpareil gifts. The album opens with “Handmaiden's Tale," a virtual duet with Gary Versace that clearly demonstrates the beauty of Jensen's tone. The track weaves together many strands of sheer beauty: warmth, lyricism, resonance and ...
Joel Ross: Gospel Music
by Jack Kenny
Religion has long provided a stimulus for jazz. Figures as august as Duke Ellington and John Coltrane drew profound inspiration from their faith, though their reception varied. Ellington's religious compositions were often unfairly dismissed as the eccentric, late career works of an aging genius. Conversely, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965) perfectly captured the spiritual ...
Woody Shaw: Love Dance
by Jack Kenny
With Time Travelers, Zev Feldman injects new life into Muse Records, the label founded by Joe Fields in 1972. Muse offered a platform to artists who were often in danger of being overlooked or forgotten by major record companies. Feldman, renowned for his lavishly produced archival releases, has brought the same care and vision to this ...
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