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Kenny Werner: Lawn Chair Society
by Samuel Chell
It would be an exercise in futility to attempt to classify this music. When standard tunes from the American Songbook and jazz idioms such as swing and bebop spark little to no recognition among the general public, music that could once be called “experimental" or “avant-garde" necessarily defines the modern mainstream. If there are similarities with ...
Kenny Werner: Lawn Chair Society
by Jim Santella
With this upbeat program of original material, pianist Kenny Werner takes his quintet through a swinging confrontation that combines modern innovation with classical training. His music is timeless. Working with an all-star lineup on Lawn Chair Society that features trumpeter Dave Douglas, saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade, he's at the top ...
Democracy: Live at the Blue Note
By Kenny Werner
Label: Half Note Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Democracy Now; Fish Gotta Fly; Untitled Lament; One for Joni; Intro to Hedwig's Theme; Hedwig's Theme.
Kenny Werner: Democracy: Live at The Blue Note
by Ernest Barteldes
This album, recorded at Blue Note at the beginning of this year, begins in the same manner that Kenny Werner's concert did during last month's residence at the same club: with a solo piano piece that emphasizes the subtleties of the pianist's fingering by exploring the whole keyboard in a classically inspired manner. The band joins ...
Kenny Werner: Democracy: Live at the Blue Note
by John Kelman
It's hard to believe that a jazz musician would be fired for trying to create something new every night, but it's happened to pianist Kenny Werner. “I'm a lousy sideman, he says in the liner notes to Democracy: Live at the Blue Note. Fortunately, this is his gig, and its loose exploratory nature proves it's not ...
Kenny Werner: Naked in the Cosmos & Peace
by Ty Cumbie
Kenny Werner & The Brussels Jazz Orchestra Naked in the Cosmos Jazz n' Pulz 2003 If a single contemporary recording were recommended as cliff notes for an impatient student eager to get a feel for smooth jazz, atmospheric new age elevator music, the angular contortions of Sam Rivers' big band ...
Kenny Werner: Freeing the Inner Urge
by AAJ Staff
It’s a very good bet that pianist Kenny Werner would NOT be high on the invitation list for speakers on the topic of the importance of jazz tradition. For Werner, jazz tradition is something that – at least for him – gets in the way of the creative process. “Very early in my musical ...
Rez Abbasi: Reziliently Brilliant
by Phil DiPietro
At 36, Rez Abbasi is the latest accomplished and proven musician with a few solo releases and a few sideman appearances in his discography to choose the independent jazz route. Born in Pakistan, raised in the USA since the age of three, and having gone east from west internationally as well as domestically, Abbasi is known ...
Kenny Werner: Beauty Secrets
by David Adler
Throughout much of Beauty Secrets, Kenny Werner is at his best. Accompanied by Drew Gress on bass and Billy Hart on drums, the pianist glides and romps through the first four selections, including the tightly constructed “Scufflin’" and the rhythmic brainteaser “Jackson Five." Then, preceding and following the staggeringly complex “Bumper Jumper" (a feature for tenorist ...
