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Arturo O'Farrill: Live in Brooklyn
by John Kelman
With the advent of relatively inexpensive recording equipment, it's now possible to document almost any live performance. Some artists, in fact, record virtually every show and then piece together a live album from the best performances, as saxophonist Wayne Shorter has done on his new release, the outstanding Beyond the Sound Barrier. But just ...
Carl Weingarten: Local Journeys
by John Kelman
While greater fame continues to elude guitarist Carl Weingarten, his multidimensional style--borrowing liberally from artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Ry Cooder, Bill Frisell, Leo Kottke, David Sylvian, and Robert Fripp--continues to shape instrumental miniatures that are more akin to cinematic soundtracks than songs per se. For a look at where he's been and how he's ...
Drew Gress: 7 Black Butterflies
by John Kelman
Along with Scott Colley, Drew Gress must be the most ubiquitous bassist on the New York scene. Gress' broad stylistic reach has allowed him to support artists including pianist Fred Hersch, trumpeter Dave Douglas, and saxophonist Tim Berne since arriving on the scene in the late '80s. Capable of bringing an unerring sense of tradition to ...
Anat Cohen: Place & Time
by John Kelman
Saxophonist/clarinetist Anat Cohen has been building a solid reputation as a richly-toned and capable improviser, as well as a lyrical mainstream writer, on the New York scene since relocating there from her native Israel a few years back. Her collaborative effort with brothers Avishai (the trumpeter, not the bassist) and saxophonist Yuval appeared on last year's ...
Jack DeJohnette: Music In The Key Of Om
by John Kelman
The past year has seen an upswing in the number of artist-owned labels, indicating that more artists are becoming interested in taking charge of their work. Some, like bassist Dave Holland--after a fruitful thirty-year relationship with ECM that has never impeded him from following his muse wherever it might take him--have chosen to do so in ...
Peppino D'Agostino & Stef Burns: Bayshore Road
by John Kelman
Acoustic guitarist Peppino D'Agostino and electric guitarist Stef Burns couldn't have come from two more different musical worlds. D'Agostino, a self-taught player who left Italy for the United States in '93, has fashioned a career around an organic approach. Despite his admirable technique, he favours substance over style and lyricism over complexity. No less accomplished and ...
Wayne Shorter Quartet: Beyond the Sound Barrier
by John Kelman
When saxophonist Wayne Shorter put together his first all-acoustic group since the '60s for a 2001 tour and live recording, Footprints Live!, it was an important confirmation that even one of the most significant artists of the past six decades could (and, perhaps, should) have something new to say. That first recording--featuring pianist Danilo Perez, bassist ...
Hank Jones: For My Father
by John Kelman
Some musicians are pure paradox, their personalities in no way reflecting the way they play. Others find their personal characteristics inextricably intertwined with their musical ones--trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, guitarist Bill Frisell, and saxophone legend Wayne Shorter immediately come to mind. Octogenarian pianist Hank Jones--the eldest and last surviving member of the Jones triumvirate that included trumpeter ...
Tim Posgate Hornband: Tim Posgate Hornband Featuring Howard Johnson
by John Kelman
Tim Posgate is a Canadian guitarist who has demonstrated the kind of diverse idiosyncratic mindset in the past ten years that places him in the same musical vicinity as Bill Frisell. His latest release, Tim Posgate Hornband Featuring Howard Johnson, draws an even more visible link, with clear stylistic reference to Frisell's mid-'90s quartet with trumpeter ...
Mark Dresser/Denman Maroney: Time Changes
by John Kelman
Since emerging in the mid-'80s alongside artists like woodwind multi-instrumentalist/composer Anthony Braxton, drummer Gerry Hemingway, and trombonist Ray Anderson, bassist Mark Dresser has combined a frightening command of his instrument that includes all manner of extended techniques with a remarkably musical approach that often makes greater sense of the more outré artists with whom he's often ...
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