Results for "Jeff Hamilton"

Craig Davis: Tone Paintings

by Jack Bowers
September 30, 2022

The subtitle of pianist Craig Davis' second album, Tone Paintings, is “The Music of Dodo Marmarosa." For those who may be inclined to ask, “Dodo who?" the album offers a mini-biography of Pittsburgh-born Michael (Dodo) Marmarosa, an exceptionally talented pianist whose promising early career was cut short by the crushing weight of mental and emotional problems ...

New Releases Plus Remembering Monnette Sudler and Jaimie Branch

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 12, 2022

Today's broadcast presents new releases from The Baylor Project, Roberta Piket, Harvie S & Billy Mintz, Brooke Alford, Bob Baldwin, Jennifer Hartswick and Dafnis Prieto with birthday shoutouts to Pete McGuinness, Akiko Tsuruga, Sherrie Maricle, Gabrielle Stravelli, Sinne Eeg, Mark Winkler and Tomoko Omura, among others. Remembering guitarist Monnette Sudler and trumpeter Jaimie Branch in the ...

Marcus Roberts, Bill Evans & Matthew Kaminski

by Joe Dimino
July 24, 2022

Major League Baseball's All-Star game marks mid-season and we celebrate America's pastime with Atlanta Braves organist and Hammond B-3 groover Matthew Kaminski with a song from his LA Connection album featuring Jeff Hamilton and Bruce Forman. We also hear new music from Manel Fortia, Ester Wiesernova and Adam Shulman. In between, hear classics by Pete Daily's ...

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 ...

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

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.