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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 16-22
There seems to be a South/Southeast Minneapolis Jazz Vortex tonight with top musicians performing at the Icehouse, Jazz Central and The Nicollet, all within about a three-mile radius. And there's more music if you spread out just a little bit farther. That's just one night. Over the weekend and into the coming week, we have such ...
While You Were Sleeping
By José James
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Simply Beautiful.
Gideon Van Gelder: Lighthouse
by Mark F. Turner
Amsterdam-based pianist Gideon van Gelder filters more bright ideas into his appropriately titled sophomore release Lighthouse, the follow up to the enlightening 2011 debut Perpetual (Kindred Spirits Records). This time the program juxtaposes funky ostinato pieces alongside beautiful tone-poem-like selections drawn from a wellspring of influences that include Stevie Wonder, Prince, and Bjork. ...
Nicola Conte: Free Souls
by AAJ Staff
Tutta l'anima di Nicola Conte. Inconfondibile. Mettiamo un po' in ordine gli elementi. La sua passione per la black music è vera e consapevole, ormai da anni: jazz, soul, latin, bossanova, funk, sono elementi di un vocabolario che ha le pagine un po' ingiallite come si conviene a chi si bagna nei ...
Kris Bowers: A Deeper Look into Heroes + Misfits
by K. Shackelford
Kris Bowers is a pristine example of what the term prodigy embodies. In 2011, at the tender age of 22, he became the winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. Bowers also received an astute musical education at Julliard School of Music in New York--receiving a Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in Film ...
Jose James: While You Were Sleeping
by Mark F. Turner
Jazz has always had a soft spot for pop music. Icons like trumpeter Louis Armstrong blessed the masses with his positivity and raspy voice in 1967's “What a Wonderful World" and saxophonist John Coltrane transformed Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1960 musical smash “My Favorite Things" into a swinging affair. Fast forward to 2014 as singer, songwriter and ...
Gent Jazz Festival 2014 - Part Two: Jazz Peripherals
by Martin Longley
Gent Jazz Festival De Bijloke Gent, Belgium July 17-19, 2014 The second weekend of this festival is traditionally devoted to musics that lurk outside of the jazz sphere, but resonating in sympathy with the core. Of course, there were a few stray acts from the mainline, just ...
Kris Bowers: Heroes + Misfits
by Mark F. Turner
Expectations can lead to unexpected directions. Kris Bowers, the compelling young pianist who took first place in 2011's Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, wowed judges that included the likes of Ellis Marsalis, Herbie Hancock and Jason Moran. A prodigy whose encyclopedic knowledge of jazz matches an adroit freedom that can't just be taught in the classroom, ...
Jose James at Dazzle
by Geoff Anderson
Jose James Dazzle Denver, CO April 23, 2014 Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, Gil Scott-Heron. Mix them together, bring them into the 21st Century and you end up with something that sounds a lot like Jose James. Wednesday night at Dazzle, 36-year-old James brought his band and updated soul ...
Takuya Kuroda: Rising Son
by Phil Barnes
Remember D'Angelo? Takuya Kuroda and his producer Jose James certainly do--this excellent collection has that loose, swampy, stoned feel from 'Voodoo' closer than anyone since, putting across that feel of thick, still air on a scorching hot, languid, afternoon perfectly. D'Angelo worked because he signposted a way to fuse the classic jazz influenced soul of say ...
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