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Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic Of 2
by Dan Bilawsky
San Francisco's famed Keystone Korner shuttered its doors in 1983, but it's getting more press today than plenty of clubs that are still serving up jazz. In the past two years alone, a previously unreleased live recording of trumpeter Freddie Hubbard--Pinnacle (Resonance, 2011)--launched Resonance Records' Keystone Korner Live Discoveries series, photographer Kathy Sloane released Keystone Korner: ...
Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic of 2
by Dan McClenaghan
One of San Francisco's most famous jazz venues, Keystone Korner, closed in 1983. It was a favorite venue of the top jazz players of the day, and several landmark live albums by pianists Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner, and saxophonists Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Stan Getz, resulted from shows taped inside its hallowed hall.The ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Setting the Record Straight
by Troy Collins
Mostly Other People Do the Killing is frequently typecast as one of today's most humorously irreverent young jazz groups, based in no small part on their provocative name, which was inspired by a quote attributed to inventor Leon Theremin--a survivor of the Soviet gulag who exonerated Stalin because “mostly other people did the killing." Bassist and ...
Alexander Hawkins: Retaining The Sense of Discovery
by John Sharpe
One of the fastest-rising stars of the UK jazz scene, pianist Alexander Hawkins is remarkable in that he shines equally in both the further reaches of free improvisation and the creation of ingeniously crafted charts. Indeed, Hawkins' particular talent might be in bringing the two so close that it's hard to distinguish between them. At times ...
His Prestige / New Jazz Albums
By Eric Dolphy
Label: Prestige
Released: 2012
Track listing: Outward Bound; G.W.; On Green Dolphin Street; Les; 245; Glad To Be Unhappy; Miss Toni; Out There; Out There; Serene; The Baron; Eclipse; 17 West; Sketch Of Melba; Feather; Caribé; Caribé; Blues In 6/8; First Bass Line; Mambo Ricci; Spring Is Here; Sunday Go Meetin'; Far Cry; Mrs. Parker Of K. C. (Bird's Mother); Ode To Charlie Parker; Far Cry; Miss Ann; Left Alone; Tenderly; It's Magic; Serene; At The Five Spot, Vol. 1; Fire Waltz; Bee Vamp; The Prophet; Bee Vamp (Alternate Take); At The Five Spot, Vol. 2; Aggression; Like Someone In Love; Memorial Album; Number Eight (Potsa Lotsa); Booker's Waltz; In Europe, Vol. 1; Hi Fly; Glad To Be Unhappy; God Bless The Child; Oleo; In Europe, Vol. 2; Don't Blame Me; Don't Blame Me (Take 2); The Way You Look Tonight; Les; Laura; In Europe, Vol. 3; Woody'n You; When Lights Are Low; In The Blues (Takes 1-3); Here And There; Status Seeking; God Bless The Child; April Fool; G.W. (Take 1); Don't Blame Me (Take 2);
Hammer Klavier Trio: Rocket In The Pocket
by Dan Bilawsky
Power piano trios willing to plug-in are not the norm in jazz, but Hamburg's Hammer Klavier Trio, thankfully, never received that message. The music that they present completely erases the dividing lines between traditional piano trios, hard hitting threesomes like The Bad Plus, and genre-blending Euro-stars like the late Esbjörn Svensson Trio. This band has all ...
Mike LeDonne: Where There’s Smoke
by Bob Kenselaar
Mike LeDonne has more than made his mark in jazz over the years, on both piano and organ. One of the New York jazz scene's premier instrumentalists, he's long been a favorite of fellow musicians. “He is incredible," said the late Oscar Peterson, who once described how he would rush to hear LeDonne play every night ...
Greg Lewis / Organ Monk: Uwo in the Black
by Hrayr Attarian
It takes abundant courage and uncommon musical vision to radically reinterpret the works of such an idiosyncratic genius as pianist Thelonious Monk. Fortunately, organist Greg Lewis possesses both as is evident on the second volume of his Organ Monk trilogy, Uwo In The Black. As he did on Organ Monk (Self Produced, 2010), ...
Greg Lewis / Organ Monk: Uwo in the Black
by Larry Taylor
Uwo in the Black is organist Greg Lewis' second recording based on Thelonious Monk's music--in fact, it is the second in a projected trilogy. Lewis' debut in 2010, Organ Monk, gained high respect from critics. Whereas, the first effort was a trio affair, Lewis expands the group here by adding Reginald R. Woods on tenor saxophone. ...
Bill Carrothers: Family Life
by Dan Bilawsky
Nostalgia, if overused, can be a dangerous drug but, when the dosage is just right, it can serve as a wonderful gateway into an artist's personalized realm. Such is the case with pianist Bill Carrothers' Family Life. Carrothers broke his trio recording habit, which is well-documented on his prior Pirouet releases, and sat down all by ...
