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Kenny Werner: With a Song in My Heart
by Ken Dryden
Kenny Werner has long been active as a jazz pianist/bandleader, composer and jazz educator, having recorded around two dozen albums as a leader and many more as a sideman. He has performed with quite a few jazz greats, including Charles Mingus, Bob Brookmeyer, Lee Konitz and Toots Thielemans. He's also a sought after pianist by vocalists, ...
Ken Peplowski: Clarinet Conqueror
by Ken Dryden
Ken Peplowski has been a busy player on the jazz scene since joining the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (directed by Buddy Morrow) in 1978. A gifted clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, he met Sonny Stitt while still with the Dorsey band, ended up studying sax with him and landed a dream job playing in Benny Goodman's final orchestra ...
Philology Records
by Ken Dryden
No one ever said running a jazz record label was an easy business. But Paolo Piangiarelli, a devoted jazz fan who named Philology for Phil Woods (using the alto saxophonist's famous leather cap as his logo), has managed to stay afloat in spite of the financial and marketing challenges of running an essentially one-man operation on ...
Live in '58
by Ken Dryden
Lionel Hampton Jazz Icons: Live in '58 Naxos Jazz 2008 Lionel Hampton was one of the incomparable showmen in jazz, especially when leading an always-swinging big band. This 1958 concert, filmed by Belgium public television at the Royal Theatre Opera House, finds him in peak form.Many ...
Hot Club of Detroit: Night Town
by Ken Dryden
The Hot Club of Detroit is one of many bands that have been inspired by the work of Django Reinhardt with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, though leader and guitarist Evan Perri's group omits the violin, instead utilizing accordion and saxophone. Yet the band's second CD doesn't exclusively stick to Gypsy jazz and ...
Grace Kelly: GRACEfulLEE
by Ken Dryden
Grace Kelly is still only a teenager, but she has already turned quite a few heads in the world of jazz. She already has an impressive resume, having won several Down Beat Student Music Awards and a pair of ASCAP Young Composer Foundation Awards, in addition to beginning studies at Berklee in the fall of 2008 ...
Sherrie Maricle: Live From Jazz at Lincoln Center and What the World Needs Now
by Ken Dryden
Since co-founding The DIVA Jazz Orchestra with Stanley Kay (who served as manager/creative director until ceding the spot to trumpeter Jami Dauber) in 1992, Dr. Sherrie Maricle has consistently led one of the most swinging big bands. Over the years, the drummer has recruited many of the top female jazz instrumentalists in the US, with a ...
Daryl Sherman: New O'leans
by Ken Dryden
Singer/pianist Daryl Sherman has been a fixture on the Manhattan music scene for years, playing various clubs since her arrival in 1974 and ending a 14-year run at the Waldorf-Astoria earlier this year. New O’Leans is her tribute to the survival spirit of the Crescent City’s residents, still present after the devastation of Hurricane ...
Martin Wind: Salt 'N Pepper
by Ken Dryden
German-born bassist Martin Wind has had an extensive career as a sideman. His fourth CD as a leader (and third for Challenge) is his best effort to date, featuring pianist Bill Cunliffe, multi-instrumentalist Scott Robinson (who restricts himself to only three here) and drummer Greg Hutchinson. Most of the CD focuses on ...
Tigran Hamasyan Trio: New Era
by Ken Dryden
Tigran Hamasyan has been fascinated with music since the age of two. Born in Gyumri (Armenia) in 1987, he caught the jazz bug at age seven and was soon playing piano and experimenting with improvisation. Studying music formally and practicing constantly, Hamasyan also immersed himself in his native land's rich folk music, which he incorporated into ...
