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Lisa Hilton: Underground
by Dan Bilawsky
In the minds of some musicians and fans, music is meant to be an athletic competition where speed and strength trump everything else, but a large segment of audiences and performers don't buy into that line of thinking. Others believe that music can be a vehicle for expressing emotions and dealing in the art of communication, ...
J.D. Allen: Victory!
by Dan Bilawsky
Many artists seem to move rapidly through different ensemble configurations, as if they're trying to finish off a career to-do list. While it's true that artistic reinvention using various instrumental formats--whether it be an organ group, big band project or Jazz Messengers-style outing--can help an artist gain notice in the trade magazines, using these formats as ...
Roxy Coss: Roxy Coss
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Nothing can prepare the ear and the heart for the voice of Roxy Coss, if heard for the first time. The raw beauty of her principal instrument, the tenor saxophone, is expressed in moist, hot gushes of breath. The cascades of notes that dapple her soli weave in and out of her exuberant melodies. She has ...
Saxologies, from Newport to Barcelona (Impromptu Portraits)
Steve Wilson, Kenny Garrett, Donny McCaslin and JD Allen in Newport 2010.Schedule at the 42nd Barcelona Voll-DammJazz Festival:November 10th, Luz de Gas. Steve Wilson-Bruce Barth Duo (double bill with Lee Konitz-Dan Tepfer).November 11th, Auditori (Sala Oriol Martorell). Kenny Garrett Quartet.November 12th, Luz de Gas. ...
JD Allen Trio at Bohemian Caverns, February 27, 2010
by Franz A. Matzner
J.D. Allen Trio Bohemian Caverns Washington, DC February 27, 2010Saxophonist JD Allen's music is an outgrowth of the mystical and transcendental experimentation key jazz musicians undertook in the sixties and seventies. However, unlike many contemporary performers who explore this tradition as a stylistic choice, perhaps driven by admiration for ...
POW! (Pick of the Week): JD Allen Trio
Looking back over jazz critics' top 10 lists of 2009, two of the most notable themes were the big band bloom and rise of the sax trio. The debut recording of Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and the sophomore effort of John Hollenbeck's Large Ensemble found their way onto many year-end lists (Secret Society's Infernal Machines ...
Shine!
By JD Allen
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Esre; Sonhouse; Conjuration of Angles; Marco Polo; Shine; The Laughing Bell; East Boogie (Kolby's Theme); Ephraim; Angel; Teo (Ted's Theme); Se'lah; Variation.
Shine
By JD Allen
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Esre!; Sonhouse; Conjuration Of Angels; Marco Polo; Shine!; The Laughing Bell; East Boogie (Kolby's Theme); Ephraim; Angel; Teo (Ted's Theme); Se'Lah; Variation.
Jeremy Pelt Threefer: Caution! Hard Hat Area!; Relentless & Twilight & Blues
by George Kanzler
Gasper BertoncelkCaution! Hard Hat Area!Arabesque2009 Sharel CassityRelentlessJazz Legacy Productions2009 Lisa HiltonTwilight & BluesRecord Label #3Year Jeremy Pelt has become a sought-after sideman ...
September 2009
by AAJ Staff
Jenny ScheinmanLe Poisson RougeNew York City August 4, 2009The chameleon-like but ever electric Nels Cline seemed at first to be an unusual partner for violinist Jenny Scheinman, but if anything the guitarist knows how to make things work and he pushed the quartet (with bassist Matt Penman and drummer Jim ...
