Results for "Kenny Reichert"

Kazemde George, Charles Mingus, and Caroline Davis

by Jerome Wilson
April 16, 2025

This show features music from a variety of players, such as Kazemde George, Cassandra Wilson, Caroline Davis, and Steve Kuhn, as well as newly collected live performances by Charles Mingus. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) ...

Switch

By Kenny Reichert

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Switch; Pivot; Things Aren't What They Seem; Acquaintance; Cherry; Vanguard; Shadows; The Midnight Sky; Farewell.

Tania Grubbs, Brian Lynch and Satoko Fujii

by Jerome Wilson
November 13, 2024

This episode features newer releases by Tania Grubbs, Brian Lynch, and Satoko Fujii as well as older music from George Freeman and Roy Hargrove. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Vardan Ovsepian “Glass Figures" from ...

Righteous Rooster: Fowl Play

by Richard J Salvucci
October 21, 2024

Time was when organ trios were thick on the ground. They were just bluesy enough, soul-inflected and grooving enough to capture a younger audience raised on something other than swing or even bop, although there were a few hard-bop outfits too. Many fondly remember Charles Earland who covered pop hits like “Aquarius" or “More Today than ...

Kenny Reichert: Switch

by Mark Corroto
June 23, 2024

Chicago guitarist Kenny Reichert works extremely hard to make his sound come across as casual on Switch. If you do not count the numerous discs with his partner Sara d'Ippolito Reichert, this is his third release as a leader. It follows Deep Breath (Shifting Paradigm Records, 2023) and returning from that previous outing are vocalist Alyssa ...

Deep Breath

By Kenny Reichert

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Mirage; Communion With Nature; Spears; Bashful; Deep Breath; How's It Going? I've Been Thinking A Lot About You; Skip; Nanjing; Balance; Reprise.

Kenny Reichert

Born: November 12, 1992

Kenny Reichert is a Chicago-based guitarist, composer, and bandleader. An active presence in the Midwest jazz scene, he leads his own ensembles and is a founding member of the organ trio Righteous Rooster.

Reichert has released four albums as a leader, most recently Live In Chicago (Shifting Paradigm Records, 2026), featuring saxophonist Lenard Simpson, bassist Ethan Philion, and drummer Devin Drobka. The album captures a band developed over years of playing together, with Reichert's compositions providing a framework for collective improvisation. His previous releases include Switch (Calligram Records, 2024), Deep Breath (Shifting Paradigm Records, 2023), and Interpretations (2015).

Johannes Wallmann: Love Wins

by Dan Bilawsky
June 19, 2018

The depths to which some factions of “civil" society will sink in order to deny others their equal rights, respect, and acknowledgement is downright depressing. But the height to which love can rise and overcome is heartening, to say the least. Pianist Johannes Wallmann is better acquainted with both of those aforementioned truths ...