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Russ Kassoff: Bird Fly By
by Edward Blanco
As of this writing, jazz pianist Russ Kassoff is the pianist and conductor of a seventeen-piece big band, and the musical director of Come Fly Away the Twyla Tharp Broadway dance musical tribute to Frank Sinatra. These associations became the inspiration and, as Kassoff states, the final piece of impetus...needed," for recording Bird Fly By. Not ...
The Stryker / Slagle Band Release "Keeper" on Panorama
In jazz recording parlance a keeper" is a take that is worth savingone to be listened to over and over again. It's also a most appropriate heading for the fifth outing by The Stryker / Slagle Band, as it well describes not just the date's title track, but each of the other nine pieces that comprise ...
Harold Danko: Escapades & Gone
by Francis Lo Kee
Harold DankoEscapadesSteepleChase2009 Rich PerryGoneSteepleChase2009 Pianist Harold Danko is well known in the jazz education field as chair of the Jazz Studies Department at the Eastman School of Music. One would ...
Sound Check - Jack Cortner & His NY Big Band
By Jack Cortner
Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2009
Track listing: 1. Strike Up The Band - George Gershwin 04:44
2. Speak Low - Kurt Weill 05:24
3. Sometime Ago - Sergio Mihanovich 05:18
4. Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock 05:43
5. Sound Check - Jack Cortner 04:55
6. Yesterdays - Jerome Kern 06:34
7. Caravan - Juan Tizol 05:17
8. Cinema Paradiso Love Theme - Andrea Morricone 05:11
9. A La Mode - Jack Cortner 04:35
10. You and the Night and the Music - Dietz/Scwartz 05:22
11. It's All Right With Me - Cole Porter 06:09
(Another) Nuttree Quartet (Abercrombie / Anderson / Liebman / Nussbaum): Something Sentimental
by John Kelman
It's always a pleasure to hear a group of musicians who, over the years, have developed not just a strong musical bond, but a personal one as well. If it's a truth that most musicians' style is a direct extension of their personality--of who they are--then it's equally logical to extrapolate that the musical interaction between ...
August 2009
by AAJ Staff
Frank KimbroughBirdlandNew York City July 14, 2009When Frank Kimbrough made his leader debut at Birdland (Jul. 14th), easily one of the best piano showcase rooms in New York, there was no doubt he would meet the lofty standard maintained at the club by such fellow pianists as Steve Kuhn and ...
Jazz Eyes: Eyes and Ears Wide Open
by Jakob Baekgaard
In jazz, spontaneity is essential. It can also be useful when setting up a label. So it's no great coincidence that, once the Italian jazz enthusiasts Paolo Siculiana and Toti Cannistraro realized they both loved the production and distribution of records, their Jazz Eyes label rapidly became a reality. The story starts on a dark night," ...
Mark Isaacs Resurgence Band: Tell It Like It Is
by John Kelman
Sometimes it's better to work on home turf, with familiar musicians. Mark Isaacs' studio disc, Resurgence (ABC Jazz, 2007), paired the Australian pianist and guitarist James Muller--another Australian talent deserving of far greater attention--with American heavy hitters including drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, bassist Jay Anderson and saxophonist Bob Sheppard. But as fine as the relative miniatures of ...
Irene Atman: New York Rendezvous
by Edward Blanco
Canadian songbird Irene Atman follows her highly acclaimed self-titled, indepedent debut of 2007 with another remarkable effort, this time recording ten gentle standards in an auspicious New York Rendezvous with pianist Frank Kimbrough and other New York players, providing a new meaning to the phrase New York state of mind." Meeting Kimbrough twenty years ago on, ...
New Classics: Mark Soskin Quartet with Ravi Coltrane at the Kitano Hotel
by Warren Allen
Mark Soskin Quartet with Ravi Coltrane The Kitano Hotel New York, NY May 2, 2009 Mark Soskin is one of the more underrated pianists working today. Perhaps best known for his sideman work alongside greats like Sonny Rollins and Herbie Mann, Soskin combines an always melodic approach with a ...


