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Billy Harper: A Life of Persistence and Improvisation
by R.J. DeLuke
On stage, Billy Harper puts his lips to the tenor saxophone, stands relatively erect and sings through his horn; a strong, angular, muscular sound. There little physical gesticulation, belying the effort it takes to express feelings and emotions through the instrument. But Harper's creative statements demand attention. Over the last few years, a lot ...
Cat Conner: Cat House
by Jack Bowers
On Cat House, the follow-up to her superb debut album, Cat Tales, California-based vocalist Cat Conner shows again that she has the astuteness and chops to leave many other contemporary jazz vocalists floundering in her wake and gasping for air. This time around, Conner has chosen a baker's dozen of what she calls her “lucky tunes," ...
Take Five with Delandria Mills
by AAJ Staff
Meet Delandria Mills: A flutist and educator, I am a native of Houston, Texas. I began playing the flute at age seven and graduated from Houston's High School for the Performing Arts. Both my Masters in Classical Flute and Graduate Performance Diploma in Jazz Studies were earned from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, ...
Steve Heckman Quintet: Search for Peace
by Dan Bilawsky
Saxophonist Steve Heckman's Search For Peace serves as something of a companion piece to his previous album--Born To Be Blue (Jazzed Media, 2013). Both albums feature the same band, present (mostly) familiar material, and walk pleasingly straightforward paths. So what's different? Well, for starters, Matt Clark played piano on Heckman's last date, but he's taken to ...
Jon Mayer: The Art of the Ballad
by C. Michael Bailey
Jon Mayer not John Mayer. This particular Mayer is a jazz pianist currently living on the West Coast who has been plying his Jazz trade in one form or another since the mid-1950s. Early on, Mayer played on two notable sessions: alto saxophonist Jackie McLean's Strange Blues (Prestige, 1957) and on the John Coltrane sessions recorded ...
Louis Moholo Moholo Quartet At The Crescent Arts Centre
by Ian Patterson
Louis Moholo-Moholo The Crescent Arts Centre Belfast October 30, 2014 Ireland has been graced by the presence of two South African musical icons in October. First, the brilliant, seventy-five-year-old trumpeter Hugh Masekela played Dublin and then a little over a week later Louis Moholo-Moholo--younger by a year--kicked up a storm ...
Greg Abate Quartet: Motif
by Edward Blanco
A traveling jazz master with an international reputation as one of the top-tier saxophonist in the business today, Greg Abate and his distinguished quartet unveils a new Motif of splendid bebop sounds which, for this artist, is natural recurring theme. An expert of the bebop/post-bop sound he has performed for most of his career, Abate is ...
Steve Heckman Quintet: Search for Peace
by C. Michael Bailey
Steve Heckman is a meat 'n potatoes saxophonist whose previous recording, Born to be Blue (Jazzed Media, 2013) was a trip through the heart of the jazz mainstream, circa 1960 (with better sonics). Heckman follows Born to be Blue with a right turn into hard bop atop of an organ-guitar quartet. For the ...
Jazz & Wine of Peace 2014
by Angelo Leonardi
Jazz & Wine of Peace 2014 Cormons: 18-26.10.2014 Giunto alla 17ma edizione, il Jazz & Wine of Peace di Cormons si colloca tra i migliori festival nazionali, coniugando ricercate scelte musicali con la valorizzazione del territorio: in primis la rinomata produzione enologica del Collio. Organizzato dal Comune e dal ...
Cat Conner: Cat House
by C. Michael Bailey
West Coast Vocalist Cat Conner's debut recording, Cat Tales (Rhombus Records, 2012) was a critical highlight vocal recording of the year. Conner's grace and sophistication come from the same school that produced Shirley Horn, Rebecca Parris and Patti Wicks. She is a master of the slow ballad and that may be the least of her considerable ...
