Home » Search Center » Results: John Kelman
Results for "John Kelman"
David Liebman / Richie Beirach / Ron McClure / Billy Hart: Redemption - Quest Live in Europe
by John Kelman
The passage of time has no meaning when it comes to the kind of intimate musical understanding that saxophonist David Liebman and pianist Richie Beirach have shared since first working together in the early '70s. They have collaborated on numerous group projects as well as a series of duet recordings that are in dire need of ...
David Torn: Prezens
by John Kelman
David Torn has always been an unrepentant anti-guitarist. As early as his '80s work with Everyman Band and the Jan Garbarek Group he's been less about the expected guitar roles of melody, rhythm and muscular soloing and more about texture and revolutionary processing. In recent years he's brought his distinctive soundscaping concept to recordings by saxophonist ...
Steve Morse: Life With and Without The Dregs
by John Kelman
He may be best known to many as aging proto-hard rock group Deep Purple's guitarist for the past decade (not to mention time spent in the mid-'80s with a reformed Kansas), but anyone who's followed his career since the mid-'70s knows there's far more to Steve Morse than an ability to admirably shred over the familiar ...
Onaje Allan Gumbs: Sack Full of Dreams
by John Kelman
The term “journeyman musician" is an often misunderstood and unjustly maligned one. Rather than its “jack of all trades, master of none" connotation, in the sphere of music it more often refers to artists who seamlessly straddle multiple genres while retaining their individual voices no matter what the style. Pianist Onaje Allan Gumbs may well be ...
Bill Carrothers: Keep Your Sunny Side Up
by John Kelman
Bill Carrothers is one funny guy. One look at his website is enough to establish that, but for further proof one need only look as far as Keep Your Sunny Side Up. That's not to say Carrothers can't be pensively lyrical or downright abstract. But on this follow-up to I Love Paris (Pirouet, 2005), Carrothers demonstrates ...
Bob Mintzer Quartet: In the Moment
by John Kelman
Horror writer Stephen King once wrote that you can drink vintage wine out of a piece of fine crystal or out of a Flintstones jelly glass. The drink is the same but there is a difference. In the realm of mainstream jazz, there's a similar difference between playing all the right notes and actually meaning them. ...
Shining: Grindstone
by John Kelman
It's hard to imagine, based on Grindstone, that Norwegian group Shining started out as a post-bop jazz quartet. While fellow Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer's current electronica/ambient-based music seems a far cry from his early days with the similarly post-bop Masqualero, there's still evidence of lineage. Shining has virtually nothing to tie it to its jazzier ...
Dino Saluzzi / Anja Lechner: Ojos Negros
by John Kelman
The late Astor Piazolla was undeniably responsible for bringing visibility to the bandoneon and widespread acclaim to the tango form. Over the course of the past quarter century, however, it's been Piazolla's fellow countryman Dino Saluzzi who has directed the instrument towards paths unseen. Over the course of nine ECM releases Saluzzi has explored the instrument's ...
Paul Motian: Time and Time Again
by John Kelman
One sax, one guitar, one set of drums. Who could imagine that such a spare combination could sound so rich, so complete? Drummer Paul Motian's collaboration with guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist Joe Lovano is well into its third decade together but, instead of settling into comfortable predictability, Time and Time Again finds the trio continuing ...
John Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
by John Kelman
John Abercrombie's group recordings on ECM have often come in threes. The Third Quartet, his latest featuring violinist Mark Feldman, bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joey Baron, is an apt (and obvious) title, but hopefully not a sign that this is the end of this group's winning streak. Since forming in 2000 it's evolved into one ...
Album Showcase
Trending
Jazz Raconteurs
Julius Hemphill: Marty Ehrlich and Tim Berne Remember a...
In Tribute To...
John Coltrane At 100: A Global Perspective
History of Jazz
John Coltrane in Detroit: A Brief History
Live Review
Detroit Jazz Festival 2026: A Gathering in a Great Jazz City
Profile
Sequoia Snyder: Growing in the Light of the Masters
Interview
Jasur Khalilov: From Falak to Fusion
Profile
The Discreet Charm of Tete Montoliu
VOTE!
