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Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness, Fini Bearman, Gerald Clayton, Shamek Farra
by Cheryl K.
During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music, new releases from the improvisational ensemble Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness; saxophonists David Murray and Kamasi Washington; singer-songwriter Fini Bearman; pianist Gerald Clayton; guitarist Roman Pilon; and from the first batch of resurrected releases from Strata-East, First Impressions by saxophonist Shamek Farrah. Playlist Joe Henderson ...
Jenny Hill: Floating
by Dan McClenaghan
Jenny Hill is joined by her group Liquid Horn on Floating. The musical mix includes straight-ahead jazz, Brazilian and world music grooves, plus what Hill calls “a splash of funky Brooklyn." Hill is a master multi-reedist, employing her tenor saxophone, flute and soprano sax here. Liquid Horn adds the piano-bass-and-drums rhythm section with Allison ...
Meet Rebecca Coupe Franks
by Cheryl K.
In this hour, an interview with trumpeter and composer Rebecca Coupe Franks. Her release Landscape Suite for Trumpet is available on RCF Records. Franks combines Classical elements and Jazz forms in six movements, all named after nature found in the New Paltz, NY area. Playlist The Reddish Fetish with The Jersey All Stars “Journey ...
Stefan Sirbu: Reverie
by Dan McClenaghan
The art of daydreaming is the birthplace of creativity. Moldavian-born pianist Stefan Sirbu delves into that state of receptive awareness with his album Reverie. The seven tunes presented here total up to a bit under 40 minutes. Sirbu says his goal was: “To produce a record that one could listen to during a short commute home, ...
Laura Dreyer: Dancing Through Time
by Katchie Cartwright
When something sparks her creativity, Laura Dreyer is the sort of person who jumps in with both feet and gets right down to business. A multi-hyphenate artist, saxophonist-flutist-composer-teacher-clinician, she has been serious about jazz since junior high school in El Cerrito, California, across the bay from San Francisco. “El Cerrito High had an award-winning--like state champion ...
Brilliant Corners 2025: Days 5-8
by Ian Patterson
Brilliant Corners 2025 Black Box/Various Venues Belfast, N. IrelandFebruary 28-March 8, 2025 If the first four days of Brilliant Corners 2025 leaned towards long-form contemporary composition and free improvisation, the music of the last four days had a more spiritual tone, and a more heavily African-accented character. Many would say that ...
Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith
by Hobart Taylor
New music from Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith, Kneebody, Claire Cope and Ensemble C, and remembering Roy Ayers. Playlist Roy Ayers “Hey Lover" from Jazz Is Dead #1 (Jazz Is Dead) 0:00 Roy Ayers Ubiquity “We Live In Brooklyn, Baby" from He's Coming (Verve) 2:24 Chien Chien Lu “ We Live In Brooklyn, ...
Kenny Garrett Speaks Through The Soul of His Jazz
by Dean Nardi
Mental bungee-jumping may not be their sport of choice, but a cerebral ledge exists that sooner or later every jazz musician must leap off. One day, ready or not, tuning up or shaking down their instrument, they will glance in a mirror, hug a pregnant mother-to-be, second-line a funeral, walk in the deepest, dark woods, chance ...
Matt Panayides: With Eyes Closed
by Richard J Salvucci
This is a charming recording: reflective, tranquil and built around the compositions of some of the most distinguished players and composers of what ought to be called the American Jazz Songbook. Here you have music written by Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Cedar Walton and Chick Corea, to name only the figures in one strain. ...
Fantasy Box Set League
by Patrick Burnette
Box sets are back, baby! Some of us old timers thought they might be gone for good after the CD crash (remember when Joe Henderson's The Milestone Years was going for twenty-bucks at your local mall?) But companies have realized that for those happy few who continue collecting “physical media," the big-ole stack of music still ...
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