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Roberto Magris: Kansas City Outbound and Restless Spirits
by Jerry D'Souza
Pianist Roberto Magris has scoped a wide segment of styles over his career. His main calling is in mainstream jazz, but he has sailed into several other tributaries, including progressive jazz with Alfabeats Nu Jazz and acid jazz with DMA Urban Jazz funk. Whatever the milieu, Magris plays with a focused sense for development and an ...
Elena Kapeleris: Introduction
by Jerry D'Souza
Elena Kapeleris makes her debut as a singer and saxophonist with Introduction. Kapeleris studied saxophone with Pat LaBarbera, who placed emphasis on learning the words to jazz standards. She soon began singing lessons and went on to perform both as a singer and saxophonist. Of the seven tunes here, four are duets with guitarist ...
Yotam Silberstein: Next Page
by Jerry D'Souza
Yotam Silberstein began playing guitar when he was 10. His first interests were rock and pop, but five years later he began studying jazz. After he finished high school in Tel Aviv, Silberstein moved to New York City. He continued pursuing jazz and, over the years, has played with Kenny Barron, Avishai Cohen, Roy Hargrove and ...
Fly: Sky & Country
by Jerry D'Souza
Mark Turner, Jeff Ballard and Larry Grenadier first played together in 2000 as the Jeff Ballard Trio. Since then they have performed in different groups. The long association has helped establish immediacy between them, a reading of the minds that translates into absorbing music. All three have contributed compositions to Sky & Country, the ...
Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club: Adventures
by Jerry D'Souza
Charlie Kohlhase is an entertaining adventurer. In his role as a composer, he draws on several influences. His eye is on the final dimension and in pursuing that, he uses a wide range of styles. Taken individually the styles seem to be odd bedfellows, but when the course of their journey has been charted, they have ...
Deanna Witkowski: From This Place
by Jerry D'Souza
Deanna Witkowski takes the spiritual road on From This Place through gospel, Catholic liturgy, blues and jazz, and 19th century text to which she has written music. Sacred music and jazz have come together through Mary Lou Williams and Duke Ellington, to name two, while John Coltrane brought in his own ardent beliefs to ...
David Binney: Third Occasion
by Jerry D'Souza
David Binney has established himself as an innovative saxophonist, an innovation that has been born of daring driven by a motivation that seeks the unusual. He has locked on to the highway of expressive thought playing with inspired invention to lend his music a lucid immediacy that is hard to ignore. Binney has formed ...
Satoko Fujii & Myra Melford: Under The Water
by Jerry D'Souza
The Maybeck Recital Hall has been home to some of the best pianists whose playing resonated not only within the walls of that institution, but into the history of piano music as well. That sounding board came alive once more when Myra Melford and Satoko Fujii performed there on September 14, 2007. Melford and ...
Gypsy Schaeffer: New Album
by Jerry D'Souza
Gypsy Schaeffer, the foursome made up by Joel Yennior (trombone), Andy Voelker (saxophones), Chris Punis (drums) and Jef Charland (bass) calls its third CD quite simply New Album. That's a truism, as is the fact that it continues to make music that is fun and enjoyable. The writing, ascribed to the group collectively, as ...
Nathan Eklund: Trip To The Casbah
by Jerry D'Souza
Nathan Eklund is based in New York City, where he leads two bands: the Nathan Eklund Group and the Nathan Eklund Quintet. This gives him the leeway to cast his music in different streams and to interpret it in the manner that suits his compositions. Eklund has also been part of projects by Craig Yaremko, Eddie ...
