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AccuJazz Internet Radio Featuring Melissa Aldana, Other Recent Monk Contest Champs
AccuJazz Internet Radio is now featuring the music of Melissa Aldana along with other recent winners and finalists of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition on its Emerging Voices channel. The channel has always exclusively played music by the younger generation of musicians, so it is a perfect fit to feature musicians awarded in the ...
Peter Brendler and John Abercrombie: The Angle Below
by Bruce Lindsay
Peter Brendler and guitarist John Abercrombie have developed their playing partnership over a number of years, but The Angle Below is their first duo recording. Brendler--"the guy on the bass" as he's described in Neil Tesser's sleeve notes--is the nominal leader but he refers to the album as a collaboration. He's not wrong. He may be ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Red Hot
by John Sharpe
Having been simultaneously inspired by and ironic about '80s smooth jazz on the excellent Slippery Rock (Hot Cup Records, 2013), Mostly Other People Do the Killing delve back further into history to explore pre-War genres on Red Hot. It's a tall order for a foursome, so bassist and leader Moppa Elliott has added Brandon Seabrook on ...
Jonathan Moritz Trio: Secret Tempo
by Mark Corroto
Great chefs can make a delicious meal out of just a handful of ingredients. So can great musicians. A simple omelet prepared from happy free range chicken eggs, plus some freshly plucked basil can set the palate reeling. For a jazz chef like saxophonist Jonathan Moritz, his simple fresh ingredients includes a trim ensemble of bassist ...
Mary Halvorson Septet: Illusionary Sea
by Hrayr Attarian
Guitarist Mary Halvorson's Illusionary Sea is rich and intriguing filled with contrasting yet complementary motifs and patterns. Leading a septet of versatile and idiosyncratic musicians, Halvorson deftly entwines divergent musical threads into an elegant musical tapestry that bears her distinctive mark without overshadowing her band mates' individuality.The elaborately constructed pieces allow ample room for ...
Burlington Discover Jazz Festival: Burlington, VT, May 31-June 9, 2013
by Doug Collette
Burlington Discover Jazz Festival Burlington, VT May 31-June 9, 2013Swooping into Burlington off interstate 89 through a series of uninterrupted green lights seems a good metaphor for the transitional year of Burlington, Vermont's Discover Jazz Festival.It's a tribute to departed director Brian Mital, as well as incoming director Linda Little, ...
Jon Irabagon/ Hernani Faustino/ Gabriel Ferrandini: Absolut Zero
by John Sharpe
If you are as extraordinarily talented as saxophonist Jon Irabagon, probably best known from his tenure in the gloriously irreverent Mostly Other People Do The Killing, then you might occasionally need to set yourself challenges. He's done it before, on Foxy (Hot Cup, 2010), where he undertakes a relentless examination of a theme from every conceivable ...
Sixth Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival In Brooklyn, Taking Place June 9 And 16 In The Urban Meadow
big bang productions presents the sixth annual RED HOOK JAZZ FESTIVAL on two consecutive Sundays, June 9 and June 16 in the Urban Meadow, a community garden on the Columbia Waterfront District. Both days start at 1pm and end at 6pm. Celebrating its sixth installment of this homegrown jazz festival, this year's line-up features some of ...
Noah Haidu: Momentum
by Bruce Lindsay
A quick glance at the monochrome photo that adorns the cover of Momentum could lead to the impression that the pianist is George Gershwin. It isn't, of course, it's Noah Haidu and this is his second album as leader. Any similarities between Haidu and Gershwin end with the shadowy cover shot--Haidu most definitely looks to more ...
