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Rick Germanson Trio: Off the Cuff
by John Kelman
With so many mainstream piano trios flooding the market, it's increasingly difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. It's easier when, in the instance of a Brad Mehldau, John Taylor or Enrico Pieranunzi, the artist's voice is so distinctive and approach so readily identifiable that there can be little doubt of its relevance. It becomes ...
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009 - from retro to rebirth in 10 days... Now the program for the Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009 has been published. The 31st edition of the festival is an illustration of the eternal rebirth of jazz, but is also looking into the past with a range of tribute concerts to the ...
Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra: Live at the Jazz Standard
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Fred Hersch has been known to push the envelope on many occasions--writing and performing music that has, time and again, crossed a myriad of boundaries of categories. And the pianist has done it again with Live at the Jazz Standard a record that happened thanks to the fact that the music of this concert was being ...
Take Five With Marc Brenken
by AAJ Staff
Meet Marc Brenken:Marc Brenken (born June 17th, 1973) started to play piano at the age of eight and has constantly been developing his own musical language since his studies at the Folkwang Academy of music in Essen, Germany. In 2006 his debut cd eight short stories (with his quartet featuring trumpeter Christian Kappe) was ...
Julian Siegel Trio: Live At The Vortex
by Chris May
He may or may not be “mad, bad and dangerous to know," as a female contemporary famously described the 19th century poet Lord Byron, but there is something distinctly Byronic about British reeds player Julian Siegel. His cascading curls (an early nickname was Wig), penchant for black clothing, and the intense lyricism of his playing combine ...
Cyminology: As Ney
by John Kelman
More than many others, ECM has pursued the kind of stylistic and, in particular, cross-cultural pollination alluded to in the recent documentary series, Icons Among Us. But as much as albums like Savina Yannatou's Songs of Another (ECM, 2008) and Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner's Ojos Negros (ECM, 2007) looked to dissolve the boundaries between geographic and disciplinary ...
John Taylor: Phases
by John Kelman
As much as he's become a major proponent of the piano trio tradition, John Taylor is gradually building a solo piano discography that may not be as voluminous or popularly acclaimed as those of Keith Jarrett's, but certainly bears comparison as much for its substantial differences as for any perceived similarities. While Taylor himself would cite ...
Ian Carr: 1933 - 2009
The British trumpet player and author Ian Carr died in London on Wednesday 25th February aged 75. He began his musical career in Newcastle in a band led by his brother Mike. Among the younger musicians he played with were John McLaughlin, Eric Burdon and Alan Price. When he moved to London he co-led a quintet ...
"Proverbs And Songs" by John Surman, Howard Moody and the Ultime Thule Choir at the 2009 Nordlysfestivalen, Tromso, Norway
by Mark Sabbatini
John Surman, Howard Moody, John Taylor, Ultime Thule Choir Nordlysfestivalen, Ishavskatedralen (Arctic Cathedral)Tromso, Norway January 23-31, 2009 It's been a couple of years since saxophonist John Surman performed his Proverbs And Songs suite. But judging from what he wrung from it after four days' rehearsal with an ...
Whirlpool
By John Taylor
Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2008
Track listing: Consolation; For Ada; Nicolette; The Woodcocks; I Loves You Porgy; Everybody's Song But My Own; In The Bleak
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