Results for "Jim Ridl"

Jim Ridl: Your Cheatin' Heart

by Victor L. Schermer
September 12, 2005

Jim Ridl Your Cheatin' Heart Dreambox Media DMJ-1080 2005In addition to being a highly skilled and accomplished jazz pianist, Jim Ridl is a creative and resourceful musician, composer, and arranger who draws on a rich legacy of musical and personal resources to develop a wide range of musical ...

Jim Ridl Performs Dave Brubeck's "Hold Fast to Dreams"

by Victor L. Schermer
February 17, 2005

The Jim Ridl Jazz Quartet Performing Dave Brubeck's “Hold Fast to Dreams" Set to the poems of Langston Hughes Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton Saturday, February 12, 2005 Sometimes we need to be reminded who we are and what's important in life. The essentials are easily forgotten in the ...

Jim Ridl: Door Openings

by Victor L. Schermer
February 24, 2004

Pianist Jim Ridl is emerging as an innovative force in jazz, a pianist of the highest caliber, a creative composer and improviser, and one of those rare musicians who stretches the art form even as he honors the established traditions. Technically and improvisationally formidable in performance and recordings, he is equally comfortable with his own groups ...

Jim Ridl: Door in a Field

by Joshua Weiner
January 25, 2004

"Concept" albums are commonplace in jazz these days, and some artists seem to release nothing but. On the best of these, the idea behind the record adds depth and cohesion to the music within, but too often we end up with weak conceits masking lack of invention (think about all the “. . .plays Jobim", or ...

Jim Ridl's Door In A Field

By Jim Ridl

Label: Telarc
Released: 2003
Track listing: Sun on My Hands; Sweet Clover; Caragana; Six hours Later; Door in a Field; Tenetree; Discin'; Thirty Foot Ceiling; Green Meadow Waltz.

Jim Ridl: Garden State Improviser

by AAJ Staff
December 17, 2003

Deciphering the network of Philly-area jazz musicians is a difficult thing. However, pianist Jim Ridl stands out as a local musician whose eloquent musical statements grab audience attention in a heartbeat, whether he’s playing with his own trio or as a sideman. He has played with one of Philly’s most famous, Pat Martino, for more than ...

Jim Ridl: Blues Liberations

by Jim Josselyn
November 1, 2001

On “Blues Liberation" master sideman Jim Ridl goes it alone in a program of improvised solo piano compositions. The disc opens with “Blues Azzara", an homage to the great Pat Martino, one of the band leaders Jim’s wonderful piano has contributed so much to in recent years. (Azzara is Pat’s birth name.) Replete with dark, ominous ...

Subtle Touch

By Darryl Hall

Label: Dreambox Media
Released: 2000
Track listing: In The Near; From The Source; Subtle Touch; Urban Folk Song; Eine Minute; Calm On The Prairie: One Of Us; Tricotism; From The Source.

Blues Liberations

By Jim Ridl

Label: Dreambox Media
Released: 2000
Track listing:

Blue Azzara; Just Left Of The Delta; Battle Of The Bands; Play, My Heart, In Blue; Aisle Five; La Dee, La Daa; Prelude And More; Get After It Boogie; Clusters Last Stand; Pass It On; Snake Dance; You Know How It Is; Rushzin' Berz Bluz; Uh Huh, That's Right; Blue Corn; Slinky; Descending On Io; A Lovely Impression; Blue Dot.

Jim Ridl: Blues Liberations

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 2000

Taking something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue, Jim Ridl accomplishes something uncommon on Blues Liberations that seems painfully obvious: He investigates the multitudinous forms of the blues. Now that may seem common because various piano masters like Jaki Byard, or even the under-appreciated pianist Ray Charles, have elevated the blues even higher as ...