Results for "Kenny Werner"

Tom Rainey Trio: Camino Cielo Echo

by Mark Corroto
March 25, 2012

For its second outing, drummer Tom Rainey's trio establishes itself as a commanding representative of the latest direction in pioneering jazz. By creating (more like co-creating) music with two of today's in-demand players--guitarist Mary Halvorson and saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock--Rainey continues his streak of outings with vanguard players.The drummer has been heard in cutting-edge bands ...

Andrea Veneziani Trio: Oltreoceano

by Dan McClenaghan
March 19, 2012

Since the advent of pianist Bill Evans' groundbreaking late 1950s/early 1960s group with drummer Paul Motian and bassist Scott LaFaro, piano trios have been largely focused on interplay. On his debut, Oltreoceano, Italian-born bassist Andrea Veneziani employs a trio very much in the Evans fashion, with pianist Kenny Werner (with whom Veneziani studied in the NYU ...

Joe Lovano: Inimitable Streams of Expression

by Angela Davis
February 28, 2012

Penned as “one of the greatest musicians in jazz history," saxophonist Joe Lovano has successfully created a unique voice within the jazz tradition and has contributed significantly to the continuance and development of the idiom.In just over a quarter of a century he has created an expansive body of work that has covered a ...

Jazz Near You Imports GigPress Events for Jazz Musicians

February 13, 2019

Jazz Near You—the web's leading jazz event aggregator—now imports events uploaded by musicians through GigPress—the WordPress calendar plugin. Musicians including trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Donny McCaslin, both GigPress users, now see their dates uploaded to Jazz Near You within 24 hours of uploading them to the Greenleaf Music website. If you are a jazz musician ...

Kenny Werner - Lawn Chair Society (2007)

January 9, 2012

When I think of the the overlap of jazz and funk, ensembles that come to mind are Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, On The Corner-era Miles, and even some of the smoother offerings out of the CTI label. In more recent times, Medeski Martin and Wood have really been laying it down. If I was to reorganize my ...

Rez Abbasi: Thoroughly Modern Marvel

by Lawrence Peryer
January 2, 2012

Guitarist Rez Abbasi is part of a generation of jazz musicians who came of age after the conservative backlash of the 1980s. He and his peers are making their mark on America's art form by contributing their rich and varied cultural backgrounds and with an embrace of popular culture that was heresy in some quarters for ...

Institute Of Higher Learning

By Kenny Werner

Label: Half Note Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Cantabile, First Movement; Cantabile, Second Movement; Cantabile, Third Movement; Second Love Song; The House of the Rising Sun; Compensation; Institute of Higher Learning.

Balloons

By Kenny Werner

Label: Half Note Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Sada; Siena; Balloons; Class Dismissed.

Brussels Jazz Orchestra / Kenny Werner in New York 1

Featuring the music of Kenny Werner
Duration: 5:37
November 19, 2011

Enjoy Jazz, 13th Edition: Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany, October 27-November 1, 2011

by John Kelman
November 14, 2011

Enjoy Jazz FestivalMannheim/Heidelberg/Ludwigshafen, GermanyOctober 27--November 1, 2011 It's always great to return somewhere that has become an annual port of call, but it's particularly nice to return to Germany's Enjoy Jazz, that atypical jazz festival which--rather than running for a week and concentrating a whack of shows in that short time frame--runs ...