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Valery Ponomarev: Beyond The Obvious
by Ken Franckling
Beyond The Obvious is ex-Jazz Messenger Valery Ponomarev's seventh CD as a leader for Reservoir. His Means of Identification, recorded in 1985, was the label's debut release. Beyond The Obvious stands apart from the six prior (all quintet) sessions in terms of its instrumental format. It's out at a time when the Russian-born trumpeter is in ...
Sedona Jazz on the Rocks 2006
by Ken Franckling
Sedona Jazz on the Rocks Sedona, AZ September 21-24, 2006 When it comes to jazz in Arizona, nothing rocks quite like Sedona, at least every September. And the state's premiere jazz festival manages to make its presence felt throughout the state year-round. The 2006 edition of Sedona Jazz on the ...
2006 Tanglewood Jazz Festival
by Ken Franckling
Tanglewood Jazz Festival September 1-3In recent years the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, the Labor Day Weekend finale at the bucolic Lenox, Mass. summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has been working to adjust its programming to feel more like a true festival, rather than a series of separate admission concerts that deter early ...
2006 JVC Newport Jazz Festival
by Ken Franckling
After two years of primarily mainstream programming that celebrated its roots, the Newport Jazz Festival threw lots of everything into the three-stage mix for its 52nd anniversary edition during the weekend of August 11-13. George Benson, Al Jarreau, Angelique Kidjo and Chris Botti brought the pop crossover credentials, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Dr. ...
Christian Scott: Rewind That
by Ken Franckling
Trumpeter Christian Scott has absorbed the essential elements of the great horn tradition of his native New Orleans, including the importance of stretching the music, just as so many before him have done, going back generations to Buddy Bolden, Joe King Oliver and Louis Armstrong and the legions who have followed. Rewind That, ...
Reuben Rogers: The Things I Am
by Ken Franckling
For Reuben Rogers' first recording as a leader, the versatile, St. Thomas-native bassist brought together several of the top musicians with whom--or for whom--he has worked regularly. They include Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton, Greg Hutchinson, Mark Whitfield and Ron Blake (who also co-produced this effort). The ballad “Anorev, which Rogers wrote for his ...
Don Braden: Workin'
by Ken Franckling
Tenor saxophonist Don Braden works in a variety of contexts. None is more interesting than his Organic Trio with Cecil Brooks III on drums and Philadelphia native Kyle Koehler on organ, recorded live at Brooks' Jersey club Cecil's for Workin', his 13th disc as a leader. This is no soul-tinged “chicken shack session, though the playing ...
Taylor Eigsti: Lucky To Be Me
by Ken Franckling
Fire and crisp delicacy go hand in hand on Lucky To Be Me, Taylor Eigsti's major label debut. It is clear that he loves rhythm shifts within a song--and from song to song. His teasing rearrangements of “Giant Steps and “Love For Sale are edgy and delightful. He then turns pop singer Björk's dark ballad “I've ...
Anthony Branker & Ascent: Spirit Songs
by Ken Franckling
Primarily working outside of the major league jazz spotlight, but not far from it by any means, Anthony Branker is crafting some of today's finest compositions--and has assembled the sextet Ascent to bring them to musical life. Spirit Songs consists of tunes Branker has written since 1997, performed by a rather formidable unit: ...
2005: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
Human tragedy brings out the best in the jazz community. When nasty Hurricane Katrina bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast in late August, its floodwaters broke through New Orleans' fragile levees, and the storm and its aftermath laid waste to a city built below sea level--and best known to many of us as ...
