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Chad Taylor Quintet at Solar Myth
by Victor L. Schermer
Chad Taylor Quintet Ars Nova Workshop Solar Myth Club Philadelphia, PA July 17, 2024 Chad Taylor is a “first call" drummer who is also a composer, band leader, jazz historian and scholar who was recently appointed to lead the University of Pittsburgh Jazz Studies Program. ...
Jamie Baum Septet+: What Times Are These
by Katchie Cartwright
Reading Marge Piercy's poem “To Be of Use" (track two onWhat Times Are These), Jamie Baum could be speaking of herself, one of those “who jump into work head first without dallying in the shadows, who swim off with sure strokes," knowing that “the thing worth doing has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident." What ...
The Jamie Baum Septet+ Release 'What Times Are These' on Sunnyside Records
On What Times Are These (Sunnyside), Jamie Baum’s fifth recording with The Jamie Baum Septet+, her flagship ensemble, the acclaimed New York-based flutist-composer presents her first exploration of spoken word and art song. To be specific, seven of Baum’s ten compositions respond to works by a cohort of eminent 20 th and 21 st century female ...
Angelika Niescier, Tomeka Reid and Savannah Harris: Beyond Dragons
by Troy Dostert
Fans of alto saxophonist Angelika Niescier already know her to be one of the most exciting voices on her instrument--someone who can shift instantly from pensive reveries to tempestuous maelstroms. And she has worked with a growing list of top-shelf partners, including drummer Tyshawn Sorey and bassist Chris Tordini, both of whom appeared on her excellent ...
Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz: Ex Machina
by Mark Corroto
Does Ex Machina settle the long-standing debate about whether saxophonist Steve Lehman is human or a replicant. Lehman and his approach to music may remind one of Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford in Blade Runner (1982) a movie adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick; Deckard was tasked with hunting ...
Steve Lehman: Ex Machina
by Karl Ackermann
When native New Yorker Steve Lehman releases an album, the odds are it will turn up at the top of year-end polls. If the composer & saxophonist has a formula for success, a listener would be unlikely to discern a methodology across his previous sixteen leader releases. What sets Lehman apart is a hunger for knowledge ...
Jazzkaar 2023
by Martin Longley
Jazzkaar Tallinn, Estonia April 23-30, 2023 Jazzkaar has now lost two days, this exceptional Estonian festival running at eight rather than ten, but still remaining epic when compared to most others. The opening Sunday might have only featured a single concert, but as the fresh week progressed, the scale incrementally increased, hitting ...
Bergamo Jazz Festival 2023
by Libero Farnè
Bergamo Jazz Festival 2023 Bergamo Varie sedi 23-26.3.23 Quarantaquattresima edizione dell'importante festival lombardo: l'ultima sotto la direzione artistica di Maria Pia De Vito, che ha avuto il gravoso handicap di iniziare il suo mandato in concomitanza dell'insorgere della pandemia, che ha colpito in modo particolarmente funesto proprio questa zona d'Italia. Il ...
Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR)
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing:
Disc one:
Menes to Midas; Unit Fractions; Little Girl I'll Miss You; Compassion(drum solo)-Ascending Numeration-DeAhBo (reset); Pad Thai - Mdw Ntr.
Disc two:
9 to 5; Mdw Ntr; Rumble Young Man, Rumble; Khet & KaBa; DeAhBo (Reset); 9 to 5 - Mdw Ntr.
