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Jo Lawry: Singing Sideman
by Jason Crane
Australian vocalist Jo Lawry is quickly establishing herself among the top tier of current jazz vocalists. And she's doing it--at least some of the time--by being a sideman. Lawry hails from Adelaide, Australia. She's been in the U.S. for several years now pursuing advanced degrees in jazz, but she hasn't spent all her time ...
Keeping It Flexible, Careful Not to Raise a Ruckus
The trumpeter John McNeil’s imagination is right on the line between jazz at its most secure and coded and jazz as an open window, letting anything in and out of its house. For the last five years or so he’s been running bands that tend to have a slightly arch repertory concept: the pointed and airy ...
John McNeil/Bill McHenry Quartet (Fri-Sat) Peter Van Huffel Quintet (Sun) This Weekend at Cornelia Street Cafe
CORNELIA STREET CAFE 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York 212-989-9319 between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, V, F to West 4th St. This Weekend At Cornelia Street Cafe Fri Nov 23, 9:00PM & 10:30PM ...
John McNeil: More Than Just Notes, Man
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Trumpeter John McNeil arrived in New York in the early 1970s and has played with such luminaries as Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Horace Silver and Gerry Mulligan. He has led his own bands since 1980 and his recordings have garnered worldwide critical acclaim. In addition to his touring schedule, McNeil co-leads a quartet with saxophonist Bill ...
The John McNeil / Bill McHenry Quartet at the Village Vanguard
by Budd Kopman
The John McNeil / Bill McHenry Quartet at The Village VanguardThe Village VanguardNew York CityAugust 22, 2007 Trumpeter John McNeil, whose release East Coast Cool was on many “Best of--" lists for 2006, has created a band that fulfills his personal musical vision. This quartet, with tenor saxophonist Bill McHenry, ...
East Coast Cool
By John McNeil
Label: OmniTone
Released: 2006
Track listing: Deadline, A Time to Go, Brothr Frank, Bernie's tune, Duet #1, Delusions, Wanwood, Internal Hurdles, Duet #2, Waltz Helios, Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, GAB
John McNeil: East Coast Cool
by Budd Kopman
The best jazz is always at least a bit subversive--it does the unexpected, perhaps even setting the listener up for something, only to slap him about it later. Jazz can be the epitome of unpredictability and subversion when musicians play around the melody or forego it altogether, when they fracture the harmony and stretch it to ...
John McNeil: East Coast Cool
by AAJ Italy Staff
Le magie sonore che scaturirono dal quartetto pianoless di Gerry Mulligan e Chet Baker in una stagione tanto breve quanto intensa, hanno lasciato il segno in più di una generazione di appassionati. John McNeil, trombettista e compositore, già a fianco del grande baritonista e membro di varie orchestre tributo, evita accuratamente una rilettura filologica di quella ...
Brother Frank
Album: East Coast Cool
By John McNeil
Label: OmniTone
Released: 2005
Duration: 05:17
John McNeil: East Coast Cool
by Brian P. Lonergan
Trumpeter/composer John McNeil is after a “third stream of sorts with East Coast Cool. His avowed purpose is to meld the cool jazz feel of the Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker quartet (which featured baritone sax and trumpet, but no piano) with the more decentralized approach and edge of modern free jazz. While it's impossible to know how ...
