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Dan McClenaghan's Top Ten for 2006
by Dan McClenaghan
Ornette Coleman Sound Grammar Sound Grammar Records The free jazz alto saxophone legend's first CD release in a decade finds him at the top of his game, backed by two basses--Tony Falanga and Gregory Cohen, bowing and plucking, respectively--and his son, drummer Denardo. ...
Rodrigo Ferrari Nunes: The Bias Project
by Michael P. Gladstone
Here's an unusual entry in the new releases department! For his debut recording, Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes, a 29-year-old bassist/composer/producer and anthropologist, has come up with a bebop tribute from his Brazilian group--with a twist. The album is subtitled “A Tribute To the Music of Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Evans & Hermeto Pascoal." ...
Eric Frazier: In Your Own Time
by Michael P. Gladstone
I tend to have a weakness for this sort of album, even though I could make several suggestions to improve this individual effort. Percussionist/vocalist Eric Frazier is a New Yorker who came from a Brooklyn background and graduated from Boys High School there. He received a degree from Southern Illinois University and earned two masters degrees ...
The Alex Levin Trio: A Reason for Being Alone
by Dan McClenaghan
The title of this disc might suggest an inward-looking or melancholic listening experience; but the Alex Levin Trio, plus a couple of tenor saxophonists sitting in--Max Hacker and Stacy Dillard--blows the roof off on the opener, “Blues on Thursday." It's a bright, gregarious, Art Blakey-esque sound, the horns sparring like a couple of free-swinging welterweights, snapping ...
The Alex Levin Trio: A Reason For Being Alone
by Victor Verney
Pianist Alex Levin, a Philadelphia native, has demonstrated a two-track mindset scholastically, geographically, professionally and artistically. After moving to New York City to study piano at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Levin transferred to Brown University, where he earned a degree in English literature. He then moved to Berlin, where his quartet The ...
Greg Chako: Two's Company, Three's A Crowd Jazz Duets
by Michael P. Gladstone
Having lived and worked in Singapore and Japan, guitarist/composer/entrepreneur Greg Chako takes this occasion to provide us with a series of duets with vocalist Andrea Hopkins and pianists Hiroshi Tanaka and Homei Matsumoto. When Chako arrived in Japan in 2004, he found a steady guitar/piano duo gig at the famed Imperial Hotel--the first time he worked ...
Jacob Varmus: All the Things We Still Can Be
by Dan McClenaghan
Some influences are readily apparent on trumpeter Jacob Varmus' debut disc, All the Things We Still Can Be, especially Chet Baker and Miles Davis, circa mid-'50s to mid-'60s. The set opens with a buoyant Varmus original, “Ecstatic Little Porpoises." Varmus' tone is warm and round and a bit soft-tufted, like Baker's, as he blows a bright ...
Jacob Varmus: All The Things We Still Can Be
by Michael P. Gladstone
On Jacob Varmus' debut recording he proves to be an exciting trumpeter, composer and bandleader. Hailing from San Francisco by way of the University of Iowa, Varmus originally planned to be a poet but was also drawn to the music of jazz trumpeters, of whom Chet Baker and Woody Shaw were early favorites. He has worked ...
Joe Jewell Quartet: Every Note Counts
by Dan McClenaghan
Joe Jewell has fallen into that always-a-sideman, never-a-leader category--a situation he's been happy with, until now. He's led the Joe Jewell Quartet since 2004, and for Every Note Counts, the guitarist brought the group into the studio for his freshman release.The program can be tagged “eclectic," representing a wide range of musical styles. The ...
Greg Chako: Where We Find Ourselves
by Michael P. Gladstone
Guitarist Greg Chako has led quite an interesting life. In addition to being a musician and composer, Chako has been a business entrepreneur both within and outside of the music industry. His life experience has led him to travel widely and explore different cultures.After three years of study at the Berklee School of Music, ...
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