Results for "Jeff Hamilton"

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.

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.

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 ...

Jeff Hamilton Trio: Merry & Bright

by Jack Bowers
December 14, 2021

After thinking for many years about producing an album of holiday songs, drummer Jeff Hamilton finally took the plunge in March 2021, recording with his trio the delightful Merry & Bright whose seasonal perspective is far more contemporary than traditional, with only one of its ten selections ("O Tannenbaum") predating the mid-twentieth century. The mood is ...

Doug MacDonald: Serenade to Highland Park

by Jack Bowers
December 10, 2021

On Serenade to Highland Park, three consummate professionals salute the Los Angeles neighborhood in which the album was recorded. The three are guitarist Doug MacDonald, bassist Mike Flick and drummer Paul Kreibich, each of whom is among the best-known and busiest jazz musicians on the West Coast. Listening to them play is akin to catching a ...

Happy Holidays from the Jeff Hamilton trio

by David Bixler
December 8, 2021

Christmas 2021

by C. Michael Bailey
November 15, 2021

The Holiday Season is enough to make anyone come out of hibernation. Here are some holiday recordings worthy of consideration. SWR Vokalensemble, Marcus Creed, Director In Dulci Jubilo: Weihnachtskonzerte von Michael Praetorius SWR Classic 2021 “For in heaven we all have to make music..." so says composer Michael Praetorius, ...

Graham Dechter: Major Influence

by Pierre Giroux
October 12, 2021

The guitarist Graham Dechter offers his first new album in almost a decade. Major Influence was recorded prior to the pandemic with the dream rhythm section of Dechter's earlier recordings: pianist Tamir Hendelman, bassist John Clayton and drummer Jeff Hamilton. In early fall 2021, the band can now begin to contemplate returning to touring. ...

Graham Dechter: Major Influence

by Jack Bowers
October 6, 2021

If you're a jazz guitarist who plans to record a quartet CD, you obviously want the most able and supportive rhythm section you can possibly find to lend its weight. For Los Angeles-based Graham Dechter, assembling such a peerless trio to enhance Major Influence, his third album as leader and first in nearly a decade, posed ...

Graham Dechter: Major Influence

by Dan Bilawsky
September 26, 2021

What do you get when you combine a million-dollar feel, sterling technique, clear-eared chording, warm and sophisticated single-note lines and impeccable taste? Graham Dechter, of course. As a longtime member of The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and first-call sideman for the West Coast elite, Dechter has earned his place on the scene. And with his first two ...