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News: Festival

8th Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival Takes Place June 14 & 21 In The Urban Meadow

January 30, 2015

“The Red Hook Jazz Festival exists contentedly on the margins, like its namesake neighborhood and much of the music on its bill... The mood in the audience was neighborly, with a higher ratio of small children to youngish adults than I’ve seen at any musical event not expressly pitched as a kids’ show.” —Nate Chinen, New ...

Article: Lyrics

I 10 CD nel CD player di... Jerome Sabbagh

by Vincenzo Roggero
January 27, 2015

01. Kristin Slipp/Dov Manski -A Thousand Julys (Sunnyside -2013). Interessante lavoro sugli standard da parte di questo duo voce e piano/wurlitzer non convenzionale ma pienamente centrato. 02. Johnathan Blake -Gone, but Not Forgotten (Criss Cross -2014). Tributo ad alcuni grandi musicisti scomparsi recentemente e alle loro composizioni. Grandi interpretazioni da parte ...

Article: Album Review

Randy Ingram: Sky/Lift

by Budd Kopman
January 7, 2015

Pianist Randy Ingram is an unabashed romantic and through Sky/Lift communicates all of the optimism, love of life and the sheer joy of making music for everyone to experience. Ingram does not hide his roots in the music of Bill Evans, but what he takes from the past master is more of an aesthetic ...

Album

We Make The Rules

By Jochen Rueckert

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Eggshells; Pretty from Afar; Saul Goodman; We Make the Rules; Bess; The Cook Strait; Alloplasty; Yellow Bottoms; Manong Twilight at the Whatever Hotel.

Article: Multiple Reviews

Brian Charette: The Question That Drives Us and Square One

by Hrayr Attarian
May 18, 2014

Classically trained pianist turned organist Brian Charette is an accomplished master of the Hammond B3 with an elegant yet passionate touch. His signature style imbues the many recordings of his various ensembles with a light, crisp sound and an effervescent melodicism that is, unapologetically, mainstream without being pedestrian. In 2014 Charette cut two charmingly seductive albums ...

Article: Album Review

Seamus Blake and Chris Cheek: Reeds Ramble

Read "Reeds Ramble" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
May 5, 2014

As leader of the 1995 funky, alternative/electronic music group The Bloomdaddies, saxophonist Seamus Blake released the band's debut album Bloomdaddies (Criss Cross 1110, 1996) that included fellow reed man Chris Cheek among the personnel. Twenty-years later, after forging independent careers as sidemen, big band soloists and leaders of their own groups, on Reeds Ramble, Blake and ...

Article: Album Review

Seamus Blake and Chris Cheek: Reeds Ramble

Read "Reeds Ramble" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
April 9, 2014

Saxophonists Seamus Blake and Chris Cheek are both into their third decades as professional musicians. Their working relationship goes back to the early-90s when Cheek was a member of Blake's “alternative grunge jazz" band The Bloomdaddies. On Reeds Ramble (the title is borrowed from a tune written by guitarist Jerry Reed) the two men lead a ...

News: Recording

Saxophonists Seamus Blake/Chris Cheek Release "Reeds Ramble" -- CD Release Party at Smalls in March

January 31, 2014

Seamus Blake & Chris Cheek Celebrate New CD Reeds Ramble With 3 Nights @ Smalls March 13, 14 & 15 Smalls Jazz Club 183 West 10th Street Greenwich Village 183 W 10th St New York, NY 10014 About Reeds Ramble ...

Article: Interview

Kevin Hays: Creative Flow

by George Colligan
September 21, 2013

[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth]If you aren't familiar with pianist Kevin Hays, you should be. He's recorded and toured with many of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. And those who call him can't seem to get enough of him. His recent projects as a ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Le Boeuf Deux Fois: Pascal's Triangle and Le Boeuf Brothers Remixed

by Dan Bilawsky
May 7, 2013

The Le Boeuf Brothers--saxophonist Remy and pianist Pascal--don't box themselves into a jazz corner; or, perhaps it should be said that they don't box jazz into a corner, preferring instead to let it marinate in the juices of the present, where it can absorb new flavors and move in different directions. Both men ...