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Jeff Williams: Outlier

by Luigi Sforza
March 24, 2017

Outlier è un disco che rassicura sulle sorti del filone mainstream e conferma quanta vivacità musicale ci sia ancora nel perseguire un codice espressivo basato sostanzialmente sull'alternanza regolare tra temi e soli accompagnati. Guidati dal pregevole batterista Jeff Williams -che sa accarezzare discretamente, ma anche in profondità, oltre che in maniera intelligentemente coloristica il set ...

Album

Outlier

By Jeff Williams

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2016
Track listing: Outlier; The Interloper; Dream Visitor; Meeting A Stranger; New And Old; Hermeto; Oddity.

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Patrick Zimmerli

by AAJ Staff
August 18, 2016

About Patrick Zimmerli New York-and Paris-based composer/saxophonist Patrick Zimmerli writes a sophisticated yet approachable hybrid of contemporary classical and jazz music. Recent collaborators include Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Brooklyn Rider String Quartet, Brian Blade, Luciana Souza, the Knights Orchestra and the Escher String Quartet. His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall ...

Article: Album Review

Alex Merritt Quartet: Anatta

by Budd Kopman
June 3, 2016

Everyone, listeners and composers/players bring their life experience to the music at hand. Jazz musicians in particular, especially today when many, if not most, compose as well as perform, pour themselves once into a composition, and then again when performing it. The performer aims to virtually disappear, to separate the distance and space between himself and ...

Article: Album Review

Jeff Williams: Outlier

by Roger Farbey
March 1, 2016

Drummer Jeff Williams is an American expatriate now residing in London, England. Following his formal drumming studies commencing in 1968 at Berklee College of Music, Williams became a seasoned veteran of the U.S. jazz scene, accompanying some of the biggest names in the business including Stan Getz, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Richie Beirach, Cedar Walton, Lee ...

Article: Interview

Michael Janisch: The Whirlwind, Paradigm Shift and London's Label of the Moment

by Phil Barnes
November 11, 2015

However you look at it Michael Janisch is an extraordinarily driven, highly motivated, success story. Not only has he been the founder, owner and force behind London's wonderful Whirlwind Recordings for the last five years, but he has also just released one of 2015's finest albums in the adventurous 2CD set Paradigm Shift. It's no coincidence ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Richard Sussman Ensemble Performs "The Evolution Suite" - World Premiere Concerts on December 20

October 15, 2015

December 18 Union Arts Center (Sparkill, NY) World Premiere! December 19 Arts Westchester (White Plains, NY) December 20 Thalia Theatre at Symphony Space New York City Premiere! A Compelling Integration of Jazz, Contemporary Classical Music & Electronics Featuring: Scott Wendholt, Rich Perry, Mike Richmond, Anthony Pinciotti, ...

Article: Album Review

Mike Fletcher Trio: Vuelta

by Bruce Lindsay
May 9, 2015

Vuelta is the debut release from the Mike Fletcher Trio, a band with a strong emphasis on improvisations based on Fletcher's melodies. The result is an accessible collection of tunes that draw on the creativity and technical skills of all three players.The trio is based in Birmingham, the major city of the English midlands. ...

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Martin Speake: The Unquiet Mind

by Duncan Heining
January 21, 2015

We have here three very fine CDs from British alto saxophonist, Martin Speake. Speake is classically trained and when I first heard him in the late 90s, he brought to jazz a tone that emphasised the clarity of each note and the purity of the melodic line that was quite unusual in a music more used ...

News: Recording

Whirlwind Recordings Releases

December 20, 2014

Whirlwind Recordings releases First Meeting: Live in London, Volume 1, a collaborate album by Lee Konitz, Michael Janisch, Dan Tepfer and Jeff Williams. Recorded live in London at the Pizza Express Jazz Club. ABOUT THE ALBUM Lee Konitz is “one of the most consistently brilliant, adventurous and original improvisers in the jazz tradition" (John Zorn). His ...