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Esbjorn Svensson: What Jazz Is, Not Was
by Joshua Weiner
We're featuring this 2004 interview in memory of Esbjorn Svensson. Svensson died on June 14th at the age of 44. News. Pianist Esbjorn Svensson leads the Swedish group EST, one of the most exciting and original piano trios in jazz today. They've been playing together for over ten years, an extraordinary length of ...
Esbjorn Svensson Trio: Live at Dakota Jazz Club
by Joshua Weiner
The latest album by EST, Seven Days of Falling, is in all aspects an excellent record, displaying the musicians' ample talent for mixing strong original songs with a fresh approach to the jazz piano trio that tastefully incorporates moods and textures from rock and electronic music. However, to paraphrase guitarist Robert Fripp, albums are calling cards, ...
Charlie Haden: Land of the Sun
by Joshua Weiner
Charlie Haden's latest release explores the ballads of Mexican popular songwriter Jose Sabre Marroquin, again pairing the bassist with Gonzalo Rubalcaba, his compatriot on 2001's Grammy-winning Nocturne. Smoothly flowing, wistful melodies predominate, caressed by gently inventive arrangements by the Cuban pianist that feature an excellent group of musicians highlighted by Michael Rodriguez on trumpet and the ...
The Great Concert of Charles Mingus
by Joshua Weiner
Charles Mingus The Great Concert of Charles Mingus Verve 1964/2004 For all that it has survived over the past century, jazz music can be a fragile thing. Its reliance on improvisation and near-telepathic communion between group members means that for something truly transcendent to occur, the stars must be aligned ...
Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: The Out-of-Towners
by Joshua Weiner
At this point, after more than twenty years of recording and performing as a working trio, what else can be said about the music of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette? All three were master musicians when they first got together, and the longevity and constancy of their association, unprecedented in jazz, has only deepened ...
Joey Calderazzo: Haiku
by Joshua Weiner
Until the recording of his new album Haiku , Joey Calderazzo was, he has admitted, frightened by the total exposure of solo piano performance. Indeed, such solo work is daunting to most pianists, particularly in jazz, where the rhythm provided by bass and drums is so integral to the music's movement and swing. Calderazzo, however, exhibits ...
Jimmy Amadie Trio: Live at Red Rock Studio: A Tribute to Tony Bennett
by Joshua Weiner
If I keep harping on this, I'm going to get a reputation as a curmudgeon. But the continuing practice of slapping together several unrelated tunes and, in an attempt to get noticed, wrapping around them a weakly coherent concept which, as often as not, invokes a famous and well-loved jazz personality, has got to stop. I ...
Emilio Solla y Afines: Sentido
by Joshua Weiner
Every once in a while appears music of such accomplishment and beauty that it completely transcends boundaries of style or culture to become (if it is not an oxymoron) an instant classic. Sentido, the gorgeous new record by Argentinean pianist Emilio Solla and his group Afines, contains such music. Forget, for the moment, that is part ...
Charlie Rouse: Bossa Nova Bacchanal
by Joshua Weiner
About eight or nine years ago, the major record labels finally realized that they could sell more copies of classic jazz CDs if they reissued them with the respect they deserved, including high-quality remastering and packaging. This has proved an unprecedented boon for the jazz fan; never have so many records by so many artists been ...
Magali Souriau Trio: Petite Promenade
by Joshua Weiner
Nowadays, jazz artists release records less frequently than they once did, and partly because of this, each new album takes on an air of supposed (and usually record-company suggested) “importance” that often undercuts the music. I’ve mentioned previously my irritation with the proliferation of “theme” records, as if one has to have a special angle to ...
