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Jazz Musician of the Day: John Hollenbeck
All About Jazz is celebrating John Hollenbeck's birthday today! John Hollenbeck\'s versatility as a percussionist and composer is revealed in a body of work that challenges countless boundaries. Performances with Fred Hersh, Kenny Wheeler and Bob Brookmeyer have showcased Hollenbeck\'s melodic and sensitive small-group jazz drumming. His unique approach to big band work is evident as ...
Drew Gress: The Sky Inside
by John Kelman
Bassist Drew Gress returns with the same quintet with whom he's been recording since 2005's 7 Black Butterflies (Premonition). Don't fix it if it ain't broke, they say, and if, with the addition of trumpeter Ralph Alessi to the core quartet that also recorded 2001's Spin & Drift (Premonition (and with Craig Taborn replacing original pianist ...
John Hollenbeck: Songs I Like a Lot
by C. Michael Bailey
There are four potent musical personalities at play on Songs I Like A Lot. The first is the erstwhile leader, drummer John Hollenbeck, musical raconteur and general high-art roustabout. He has had a long association with vocalist Theo Bleckmann, both in big band settings on A Blessing (Omnitone, 2005) and with Claudia Quintet on What Is ...
John Hollenbeck: Songs I Like a Lot
by AAJ Italy Staff
John Hollenbeck, compositore e polistrumentista americano, è noto ai più per essere il fondatore dei Claudia Quintet, gruppo che, si può dire senza temere di offendere nessuno, ha, con soli sei album all'attivo, contribuito ad allargare i confini del jazz contemporaneo, fertilizzandolo con idee e contenuti originali o provenienti da “altri mondi": dalla musica da camera ...
Orchestre National de Jazz: Piazzolla!
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The Argentinian composer, bandoneón player and tango revolutionary Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) was no stranger to jazz. As a music student in Paris in the mid-1950s, he was inspired by the joyous improvisation he witnessed in the effervescent Left Bank jazz scene. He would go on to collaborate with baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan (Summit/Reunion Cumbre, Erre, 1974) ...
Old Time Musketry: Different Times
by Dave Wayne
Brooklyn-based Old Time Musketry is a band whose moniker foreshadows one aspect of the sound it's after, steeped in folk music and Americana. But the quartet's debut, Different Times, contains so much more. First and foremost, Old Time Musketry is a jazz quartet. Sure there's quite a bit of accordion and clarinet on this recording, but ...
John Hollenbeck: Songs I Like a Lot
by John Kelman
It's hard to resist, at the very least, looking at an album with as honest and unassuming a title as Songs I Like a Lot; but it's even harder to resist when it turns out that the instigator is John Hollenbeck, founder of and primary composer for Claudia Quintet--the chamber jazz ensemble which has, over the ...
2012: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The world of jazz officially went global in 2012, kicked the Grammy Awards in the shins, dealt with economic issues and Mother Nature, and found new ways to innovate in this social media and Internet-savvy age. There were ups and there were downs for both longstanding clubs and festivals, too. Here's a look at ...
What Is the Beautiful?
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2012
Track listing:
01. Showtime/23rd Street Runs into Heaven; 02. The Snow Is Deep on the Ground; 03. Mates for Life; 04. Job; Do Me That Favor; 05. Flock; 06. What Is the Beautiful?;
07. Beautiful You Are; 08. Peace of Green; 09. The Bloodhounds; 10. Limpidity of Silences; 11. Opening the Window.
Monosuite
Label: Pirouet Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Waves; Breaks; Fiddlesticks; Blossom; Low Tide; Loops; Ritual; Chacaglia; Weave.
