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Article: Album Review

Meeco: Beauty of the Night

Read "Beauty of the Night" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 3, 2012

While danger, intrigue and excitement are often born beneath a silvery moon, love, loss and regret seem to come first to Meeco's mind when his thoughts turn to the night. The Paris-based composer/producer gathered what can only be described as a dream team of jazz's crème de la crème to help him bring life to eight ...

Article: Album Review

Meeco: Beauty of the Night

Read "Beauty of the Night" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
February 26, 2012

Paris-based composer/producer Michael Christian Maier, alias Meeco, has never truly delivered a standard jazz album, preferring instead to craft musical projects that are creative, innovative and different from the rest, described as “neither classical nor jazz" (Jaques Morelenbaum). A follow-up to Perfume e Caricias (Connector, 2010), Beauty of the Night is Meeco's third disc and his ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Meeco: Beauty of the Night

by Chris May
February 17, 2012

Anyone unfamiliar with Paris-based composer/producer Meeco and his gorgeous, sophisticated jazz can get approximate bearings from two other artists. One is Antônio Carlos Jobim, partly for the influence of bossa nova on Meeco's writing, partly for the heart-on-sleeve romanticism his songwriting shares with Jobim. The second is Astrud Gilberto, who is suggested by the Brazilian vocalist ...

News: Interview

Drummer Matt Wilson Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!

February 13, 2012

Drummer Matt Wilson must surely be in the running for the title of hardest-working man in jazz. Wilson is a composer, bandleader, producer and teacher. As a leader, his projects include the Matt Wilson Quartet, Arts & Crafts, Christmas Tree-O and the Carl Sandburg Project. He has been in bands with luminaries such as Joe Lovano, ...

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Article: Interview

Matt Wilson: Have Drums, Will Travel

by Lawrence Peryer
February 13, 2012

Article: New York Beat

Jimmy Owens and the Monk Evolution

by Nick Catalano
February 11, 2012

When an artist comes along who convolutes traditional form, it sometimes takes eons for that artist's contribution to be understood, evaluated and finally appreciated. Initially, composer Igor Stravinsky was thrown out of Paris at the premier of “Le Sacre du Printemps," author James Joyce was banned in Boston for Ulysses," and composer John Cage ridiculed for ...

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Article: Live Review

Josh Ginsburg at An Die Musik in Baltimore

by Bob Kenselaar
January 24, 2012

Josh Ginsburg An Die Musik Baltimore, Maryland January 14, 2012 Josh Ginsburg celebrated the release of his new CD, Zembla Variations (Brooklyn Jazz Underground, 2012), with two special performances, one at the Jazz Gallery in New York on January 12 and the other two days later at An Die Musik, a ...

Article: Album Review

Jimmy Owens: The Monk Project

Read "The Monk Project" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 14, 2012

Jimmy Owens' tribute to the indomitable music of Thelonious Monk is a luxurious road trip that travels on smooth roads once precarious and quite perilous. His septet, an experienced large/small ensemble, glides almost effortlessly through the opulence of this music.The ease in which these musicians maneuver through the nine Monk compositions, plus Duke Ellington's ...

Article: Album Review

Mike Wofford / Holly Hofmann Quintet: Turn Signal

Read "Turn Signal" reviewed by Larry Taylor

by Larry Taylor
January 11, 2012

Holly Hofmann is an energetic, swinging, straight-ahead jazz flautist who has been performing for over 30 years. Mike Wofford, her husband, a recognized piano master, co-leads on Turn Signal, playing with an understated, intuitively rhythmic style. The two now live in San Diego, California, but travel extensively for performances. Recording her first disc ...

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Article: Album Review

Jimmy Owens: The Monk Project

Read "The Monk Project" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
January 10, 2012

With a career spanning over 45 years, legendary trumpeter Jimmy Owens has had the privilege of performing with many giants of jazz, including trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, pianist Billy Taylor, bassist Charles Mingus, drummer Max Roach and the incomparable pianist Duke Ellington. Though he never had the opportunity to record with pianist Thelonious Monk, he did know ...