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Gregg Bendian
by Bill Milkowski
Since the early '90s, drummer Gregg Bendian has distinguished himself as an adventurous and accomplished player-composer through his sideman work with the likes of Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Peter Brotzmann and Pat Metheny while also leading his own Interzone Quartet and Trio Pianissimo. His most recent recording is the startlingly virtuosic solo ...
Montreal Jazz Festival: Days 4-6, July 4-6, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Joshua Redman By Invitation Day 1 / Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band Joshua Redman By Invitation Day 2 / Kenny Werner QuintetJeff Beck / Anat CohenFestival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 4-6 2009
Sebastiaan Cornelissen: U-Turn
by Ian Patterson
It's a minute and forty seconds before Sebastiaan Cornelissen's drums ease into the frame on U-Turn. Although he has a lot to say he's clearly not in a rush; this second solo effort has been seven years coming and has taken four years to put together. The fourteen pieces, which could almost be seen as a ...
Bill Connors to Join Corea, Clarke & White for September 2nd Hollywood Bowl Concert
It's official: pianist Chick Corea, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White will be joined September 2nd by guest guitarist Bill Connors at the Hollywood Bowl kick-off gig of their fall tour. The band, now billed as Corea, Clarke & White, will also be joined by legendary violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and song stylist Chaka Khan. Inspired ...
Various Artists: Mahavishnu Redefined: A Tribute to John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra
by John Kelman
With guitar icon John McLaughlin's greater visibility, thanks to recent tours with his 4th Dimension group and Five Peace Band collaboration with pianist Chick Corea, there's been a flurry of reassessment of his vast and vital output as a repertory source. Drummer Gregg Bendian's Mahavishnu Project delivered first-time performances with Return to the Emerald Beyond (Cuneiform, ...
John McLaughlin and Frank Vignola: Guitar Masters on DVD
by Jerry D'Souza
John McLaughlin and Frank Vignola present different approaches to the guitar and the music they subscribe to. McLaughlin has explored several musical idioms. He was the fire that ignited trumpeter Miles Davis's Bitches Brew (Columbia, 19690, and he found the soul of Indian music and gave it a prominent voice not only on his own recordings ...
The Allman Brothers Band: 40 Years Out
by Alan Bryson
So what do Randy Brecker, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White have in common with Kid Rock, Eric Clapton and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top? All were part of the Allman Brothers Band's three-week musical extravaganza at New York City's Beacon Theater celebrating the band's 40th anniversary. This year's list of surprise guests also included ...
Joel Harrison: Urban Myths
by John Kelman
With a string of outstanding records that began with his personal look at the music of George Harrison on Harrison on Harrison (HighNote, 2005), continued with an all-original pairing with guitarist Nguyên Lê on Harbor (HighNote, 2007) and culminated with the ambitious The Wheel (Innova, 2008), guitarist Joel Harrison has, over the last few years, been ...
Julie Coryell – Jazz Author, Manager, Singer
By Bill Siegel Julie Coryell – jazz author, manager, singer, songwriter, actress, and more – passed away unexpectedly on May 10, at St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY. She was 61 years old, and had been living at the Victory Lake Nursing Home in Hyde Park, NY. She collaborated with award-winning photographer Laura Friedman on the ...
Ximo Tebar: Steps
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Steps, by guitarist extraordinaire Ximo Tebar, may be his most deceptive yet. At first blush, it appears to channel the funky grooves of latter-day Miles Davis and Marcus Miller. But then, with complex melodic invention and accelerated rhythmic accentuation it soon becomes evident that this music embodies an ebullient sound of surprise. If anything, Tebar channels ...
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