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Peter Bernstein
by Andrey Henkin
Last month, Peter Bernstein arrived at Smalls, armed with his guitar and a small amp, to play an intimate solo gig. The crowd was a good one for an early evening set on a Wednesday and was bolstered by the presence of legendary trombonist Roswell Rudd. As the Yankees were winning the World Series a borough ...
Terry Clarke: It's About Time
by Jerry D'Souza
Drummer Terry Clarke has had a long and illustrious career. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Clarke moved to San Francisco in 1965 to play with John Handy III. Jazz at the time was not an all-encompassing passion, and when the opportunity to play with pop vocal group The Fifth Dimension came about, he took it. Five years ...
Joey Baron: Just Say Yes
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Combining technical acuity with a deep sense of groove, Joey Baron drums with playful exuberance. Throughout his more than 35-year career, he's propelled experimentalists like guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist John Zorn, as well as mainstreamers like vocalist Carmen McRae and saxophonist David Sanborn. He's even played with pop stars David Bowie and Marianne Faithfull. But ...
December 2009
by AAJ Staff
Jesse Stacken and Kurt KnuffkeCornelia Street CafeNew York, NY November 8, 2009When pianist Jesse Stacken and trumpeter Kirk Knuffke played Cornelia Street Café (Nov. 8th) to celebrate their SteepleChase duo release Mockingbird, they surveyed not only Monk and Ellington tunes--the album's focus--but also demanding works by Lennie Tristano and Charles ...
Herculaneum: Herculaneum III
by Nic Jones
In some respects what we have here is music that's a step on from Jimmy Giuffre's work in the 1950s, but if it's the chamber music notion that unites the two bodies of work across the intervening half-century, it's clear that this band marches to a rhythmically more vigorous aesthetic. The music is at times alive ...
Anson Wright & Tim Gilson: Ukiah's Lullaby
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The two men, guitarist, Anson Wright and bassist, Tim Gilson enjoy a special relationship. Most duos are close-knit units. In a few very special instances, the two musicians thrive on something uncannily telepathetic. For instance, they will complete each other's phrases without missing a beat or a phrase. Whether they enter behind or on the beat ...
Take Five With Curt Sheller
by AAJ Staff
Meet Curt Sheller: Curt has been a performing guitarist/recording artist for the past 30 years and a private music instructor for the last 20 years. As an educator and author, Curt has published over 20 books on music, guitar and ukulele. Here is what Nick Matty said about Curt's books. “I have purchased many books over ...
Urban Hansson: Flute Fascination
by Hrayr Attarian
Instrumental jazz duet recordings that are not piano-based are a rarity; one that comes to mind is guitarist Jim Hall and bassist Ron Carter's Alone Together (Milestone, 1972). But a disc made up of exclusively flute “conversations" with other less commonly used instruments (at least in this setting) is almost unheard of. Swedish flutist Urban Hansson ...
Now Streaming Online: "Hemispheres" by Jim Hall and Bill Frisell
Legendary jazz guitar master, Jim Hall, and multiple Grammy award winner, Bill Frisell's, historic collaboration is now available to enjoy online! In celebration of its Grammy consideration for instrumental jazz, ArtistShare has selected multiple tracks from the 2-disc album Hemispheres to stream for free for the next couple of weeks. Enjoy the music! Click here to ...
