Results for "James Singleton"

Myra Melford, Eric Plaks & Music For Ukraine

by Maurice Hogue
April 20, 2022

Myra Melford's new recording, For The Love Of Fire And Water, is an excellent one. It's a multi-part suite performed by Melford, Ingrid Laubrock, Mary Halvorson, Tomeka Reid and Susie Ibarra. It's one of the feature recordings in a decidedly internationally-flavored show. New York pianist Eric Plaks contributes music from four of his groups, German saxophonist ...

Tomasz Dabrowski, James Singleton & Dave Gisler

by Maurice Hogue
April 6, 2022

Like most Polish trumpet players influenced by the late Tomasz Stanko, Tomasz Dabrowski fell heavily under Stanko's spell, but he also was blessed to study with the master and to have him as a mentor. It was probably a huge thrill to be able to play one of Stanko's horns while recording his latest, Tomasz Dabrowski ...

So Swell

By Jon Cleary

Label: Single Lock
Released: 2023
Track listing: Swanee River Boogie; Two Wrongs; I Call It Pretty Music; Just Because; So Swell When You're Well; Second Line On Monday; We're No Exception; I Get The Blues When It Rains; Lottie Mo; Pony Boy; Tuburculucas And The Sinus Blues; Since I Don't Have You.

Eivind Austad: That Feeling

by Friedrich Kunzmann
January 19, 2021

Presenting an equal amount of originals and covers/standards, Norwegian pianist Eivind Austad's New Orleans Trio channels The Big Easy's musical spirit through gospel-tinged ruminations, extended blues forms and a healthy portion of New Orleans shuffle on the collaboration's debut effort. Following only a year after Austad's sophomore outing Northbound (Losen Records, 2019) saw the light of ...

Live At The Marigny Opera House

By Cyrus Nabipoor

Label: Nabipoor Music LLC
Released: 2020
Track listing: What Is This; There Is A Light That Never Goes Out; Cellmates; Hipody; Specter; Huckleberry Madness; Lullaby Intro; Pan's Labyrinth Lullaby; NOK Blues.

Waves

By Burke Ingraffia

Label: Point Clear Media
Released: 2020
Track listing: Waves Change of Heart That’s The Way Mountains Are Made Business as Usual Above and Below Dusty Old Clock One Body St. Andrew’s Day You Gotta Breathe Free Again

Cyrus Nabipoor: Live At The Marigny Opera House

by Mike Jurkovic
October 28, 2020

Whatever Mother Nature or callous venture bankers do to the battered city of New Orleans, its music keeeps getting passed from legend to legend to legend, to the next wave of youngsters that best exemplifies the historical resiliency of a people and their city. And perhaps one of the busiest and most inventive A-listers on New ...

James Singleton

New Sounds Including The Fictive Five, The Comet is Coming and Sylvie Courvoisier

by Bob Osborne
June 27, 2019

A wide selection of new releases this time around demonstrating the wide range of genres emerging from jazz at the moment... Playlist The Comet Is Coming “Super Zodiac" from Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (Impulse) 00:00 The Fictive Five “Immediate Human Response (for Spike Lee)" from Anything Is Possible (Clean ...

Charles Rumback, Kuzu and More

by Maurice Hogue
April 24, 2019

There's a slight Chicago flavour to this episode. Drummer Charles Rumback hooked up with noted New Orleans bassist James Singleton for Rumback's latest recording, Cadillac Turns. In an odd twist of strange, Singleton approached a jet-lagged Rumback in a bar in Sydney Australia and said he had seen Rumback playing in a Chicago bar a few ...