Results for "Jason Stein"

Delmark Records: New Jazz and Blues Releases for the fall

September 30, 2011

Available October 25, 2011 Jason Adasiewicz's Sun Rooms Spacer Delmark CD (DE 2012) / LP (DF 2012) Sun Rooms is Jason Adasiewicz's three year old trio featuring Jason (vibraphone), Mike Reed (drums) and Nate McBride (bass). Their debut record Sun Rooms (Delmark 593) was named by the New York Times (Ben Ratliff) as one of the ...

Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore: Three Kinds of Happiness

by Glenn Astarita
March 22, 2011

Locksmith Isidore's third release is a study in improvisational and composition-based contrasts. Led by bass clarinetist Jason Stein, the program is underscored by a frothy outlook amid temperate interludes and more than enough pop, snap and fluid progressions. Other than his inventive soloing jaunts, Stein communicates a keen jazz vernacular, molding conventional jazz fare with a ...

Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore - Three Kinds of Happiness (Not Two, 2010) ****1/2

March 1, 2011

By Guy Peters I have a soft spot for the bass clarinet. The quirky look of the instrument certainly has something to do with that. Also the fact that it has rather few practitioners and the realisation that some of them (like Rudi Mahall and Louis Sclavis) do tremendous things with it. Of course, there's also ...

The Jazz Session #230: Jason Stein

January 11, 2011

Chicago Bass Clarinetist Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore Releases Third CD "Three Kinds of Happiness," on Not Two Records - November 30, 2010

November 20, 2010

Featuring Jason Roebke (bass) and Michael Pride (drums) There are many who embrace tradition, and jazz's recent history is replete with acolytes of a certain era or style. Bass clarinetist Jason Stein is cut from a very different cloth however, and Three Kinds of Happiness, the new album by his trio, Locksmith Isidore, demonstrates just how ...

Mike Pride’s From Bacteria to Boys: Betweenwhile

by Mark Corroto
October 8, 2010

Certainly, any attempt to pigeonhole this drummer is a lesson in failure; priding himself in his diverse interests, whether recording a duet album of free improvisation with Jon Irabagon, on I Don”t Hear Nothin' But The Blues (Loyal Label, 2009), or playing with punk band Millions Of Dead Cops, Mike Pride he has also distinguished himself ...

Keefe Jackson Quartet: Seeing You See

by Troy Collins
May 5, 2010

The vibrant Chicago jazz scene has been home to many impressive young artists, most of whom collaborate in a rotating roster of collective ensembles. This communal approach has yielded a deep pool of talented individuals intimately familiar with each other's working methods, providing them with a sort of regional shorthand. Multi-reedist Keefe Jackson is one such ...

Mike Reed: The Drum Thing

by Gordon Marshall
May 4, 2010

There is not a name yet for what Mike Reed does on drums. Elvin Jones created polyrhythmics; Rashied Ali, multi-directionalism. Reed is delivering something related but distinct. It has as much to do with tonal complexity as with keeping the beat, but the complexity goes beyond that, into a recombination of the many drumming styles of ...

In Exchange for a Process

By Jason Stein

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: 1. For the Sake of Edgar Polard; 2. For Isham; 3. History Histrionics; 4. Paint By Number; 5. E.P. and Me; 6. Hysterical Eric; 7. Murray Flurry; 8. Temporary Framing of Dr. J; 9. Handmade Chicago; 10. For Peter; 11. Fiction of C.G.

Umbrella Music Festival 2009

by A. Henkin
December 20, 2009

Umbrella Music FestivalChicago, ILNovember 5-8, 2009 If jazz is to survive in a modern world without the support of major labels or corporate funding, it will be through the efforts of organizations like Umbrella Music, “a group of Chicago-based musicians and presenters working together to provide concert opportunities for creative and improvising musicians." ...