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John Roney Trio: Rate of Change
by John Kelman
Since moving from Toronto in 2001, pianist John Roney has climbed the ladder of the Montreal jazz scene with remarkable speed. For the past couple of years his trio with bassist Zack Lober and drummer Jim Doxas has been hosting the Montreal Jazz Festival's late night jam sessions, and it would be difficult to find a ...
Bang on a Can / Don Byron: A Ballad for Many
by John Kelman
It's no surprise that clarinettist Don Byron bemoans the musical conservatism of the 1980s “young lions jazz movement. New York has always been richly cosmopolitan--musically and otherwise. It's also no surprise that for A Ballad for Many, his first album to focus almost exclusively on composition, he has collaborated with the intrepid new music ensemble Bang ...
John McLaughlin: Industrial Zen
by John Kelman
It's been six years since John McLaughlin released a flat-out fusion record, but the guitar icon has been talking about Industrial Zen for some time, generating considerable buzz in the process. And it's been worth the wait. The Promise (Verve, 1995), McLaughlin's last recording with a large cast, rather than a fixed ensemble, was an inconsistent ...
Hamster Theatre: The Public Execution of Mister Personality / Quasi Day Room: Live at the Moore Theatre
by John Kelman
While countless artists are busily dissolving artificial boundaries between musical styles, it's still shocking to hear a group just plain nuke them. Hamster Theatre does exactly that on this two-disc set presenting alternate yet not dissimilar aspects of this genre-busting group spearheaded by multi-instrumentalists/composers Dave Wiley and Jon Stubbs. The release includes the studio recording The ...
Roberto Occhipinti: Yemaya
by John Kelman
Roberto Occhipinti, a bassist who has comfortably straddled an increasingly tenuous line between classical and jazz worlds for many years, has become more ambitious in style and scope with each successive release. On Yemaya, the Toronto native ups the ante from his superb mini-big band release The Cusp (Modicamusic, 2003) by enlisting a string quartet, a ...
Randy Brecker: Some Skunk Funk
by John Kelman
The 2003 performance documented on Some Skunk Funk may be credited to trumpeter Randy Brecker, but his brother, saxophonist Michael, joins in for a Brecker Brothers reunion with the added oomph of Germany's WDR Big Band. And if ever a band's repertoire was custom-made to be retrofitted with a larger horn section, it's that of the ...
Marc Cary: Focus
by John Kelman
Some artists catch an early break. Others struggle to get onto the public's radar, despite great talent and stylistic range. It's curious that keyboardist Marc Cary hasn't caught on. His work with artists including trumpeter Roy Hargrove, vibraphonist Stefon Harris and singer Abbey Lincoln suggests that he's well-respected by his peers and considered capable of just ...
Joe Locke / Geoffrey Keezer Group: Live in Seattle
by John Kelman
Vibraphonist Joe Locke and keyboardist Geoffrey Keezer have been working together for some time as the New Sound Quartet, which has released two discs in Japan. But while that group--clearly the precursor to this quartet--focused out of necessity on a primarily standards-based repertoire, Live in Seattle provides a far better and more accurate representation of its ...
Day 12 - Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, July 9, 2006
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 | Day 12 With the exception of Calexico, a curious blend of country, post-rock and mariachi music performing as a ticketed event at Metropolis, and a small ...
Day 11 - Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, July 8, 2006
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 | Day 12 As the 27th edition of the Montreal Jazz Festival heads for the home stretch, two unique and diverse performances showed why it is one ...
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