Results for "Jan von Klewitz"

Jan von Klewitz

Essays on Jazz

By Maria Baptist

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD 1: Here and Now; The Bright and the Dark; Longing; The Moon Stood Still; Running. CD 2: Apartment #3; On Top of the Mountain; Minotaurus; After the Darkness; Midnight Rain; Goodbye.

Maria Baptist: Essays on Jazz

by Geno Thackara
April 29, 2023

If a title such as Essays on Jazz might suggest something dry or academic (or, god forbid, pretentious), perish the thought. For one thing, Maria Baptist has spent decades as a professor of music and knows her stuff enough to live up to the name. For another, she has spent even more time living the jazz ...

Facing Duality

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Facing Duality; Minotaurus; Stillness Speaks; Sea of Blackness; Midnight Rain; Gratitude; Natural Landscapes; Cloud 9; Longing.

Geno Thackara's Best Releases of 2020

by Geno Thackara
December 26, 2020

However strange the year has gotten, the urge to create clearly hasn't lessened at all--either that or the circumstances have left us more appreciative of art where we find it. Most likely it's some of both. Whatever the case may be, 2020 has still seen no shortage of musical treats good for the soul.

Maria Baptist and Jan von Klewitz: Facing Duality

by Geno Thackara
September 17, 2020

In a way it seems out of nowhere, and in a way it was a long time coming. While Maria Baptist has ranged from solo to trio to big band and more, throughout her career at the piano, Jan von Klewitz's saxophone has been a more steady presence beside her than than most. He came on ...

Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2019

by Rob Garratt
October 3, 2019

Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2019 Hong Kong City Hall; Hong Kong Park Hong Kong September 22, 25-27 We've long been told that jazz is a world language, but regional dialects are becoming an increasingly louder part of the conversation. Sitting conceptually, if not geographically, on the nexus ...

The Art (de Vivre) of the Trio

by Geno Thackara
August 12, 2017

Amaury Faye Trio Clearway Pias Jazz Village 2017 Following several years of studying and reputation-building in his native France and beyond, Amaury Faye makes an accomplished and overdue step foward with Clearway. It was largely a standards affair on his leader debut Big Moe Trio (Greenworks, 2010). Here the French ...