Results for "Jeff Hamilton"

Jeff Hamilton

by Joseph Vella
February 11, 2022

Piet Verbist: Secret Exit to Another Dimension

by Jack Bowers
February 2, 2022

In spite of its rather intriguing title (and those of several of its selections), Secret Exit to Another Dimension, by Belgian bassist Piet Verbist's well-schooled trio, consists for the most part of the sort of gentle, heartwarming jazz one might hear on a given evening in any number of upscale nightspots around the world. In fact, ...

Pete Malinverni: On the Town: Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein

by Pierre Giroux
January 13, 2022

The presumptive title of this release is On The Town, but in reality it covers more than just the music from that titled 1944 Leonard Bernstein Broadway musical. The ever thoughtful and vivid pianist Pete Malinverni along with his savvy and accomplished companions bassist Ugonna Okegwo and drummer Jeff Hamilton have made this release an oeuvre ...

Pete Malinverni: On the Town: Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein

by Jack Bowers
January 10, 2022

Pianist Pete Malinverni's album, On the Town, is subtitled “Plays Leonard Bernstein," and it's an homage he has wanted to put on record for many years—ever since he met Bernstein in person while performing at an opening-night party for a production of the opera Tosca at the Met in NYC. Bernstein, he recalls, spent much of ...

I Like You Best Of All - A Look Back To Notable 2021 Recordings, Part One

by Mary Foster Conklin
January 10, 2022

Happy New Year! This first broadcast of 2022 presents a final holiday recording from drummer Jeff Hamilton with new releases from The Count Basie Orchestra, Vijay Iyer, Adonis Rose & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra featuring Cyrille Aimee plus a look back at some of the notable 2021 albums made despite the disruption of the pandemic ...

Major Influence

By Graham Dechter

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Orange Coals; Reference; Major Influence; Moonithology; Minor Influence; Pure Imagination; Bent on Monk; Billy's Dilemma.

Merry & Bright

By Jeff Hamilton

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: It’s the Holiday Season; Caroling Caroling; The Little Drummer Boy; Let It Snow! Let It Snow!; Bright Bright the Holly Berries; It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year; Here Comes Santa Claus; Santa Baby; O Tannenbaum; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

The LA Session

By Paul Kuhn

Label: In And Out Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Almost the Blues; Just in Time; Close Your Eyes; You've Changed; On a Clear Day; Griff; Dinah; Speak Low,Emily; There Will Never Be Another You; My Heart Stood Still; Ornithology; People; As Time Goes By; Don't Mean a Thing; My World of Music

On the Town: Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein

By Pete Malinverni

Label: Planet Arts Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: New York New York; Lucky To Be Me; Somewhere; Cool; Simple Song; I Feel Pretty; Lonely Town; Some Other Time; It's Love; A Night On The Town.

New Live And Studio Records Plus Classic Mingus

by Bob Osborne
December 30, 2021

On this week's show we present new live albums from Steve Coleman and Enrico Rava. There are also new studio based releases from Adán Mizrahi, Byron Asher & Brad Webb, Brian Molloy Quartet, John Zorn, and Bruce Forman, John Clayton & Jeff Hamilton. We also dip into the archive for some classic Charles Mingus.Playlist ...