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A Jazz Guitarist Applies His Method to the Classics
It could be argued that the practice of jazz in the last 10 years has been more original than at any time in the past. By original I don’t mean unprecedented; that’s a word for publicists, not musicians. I mean newly composed, rather than covering old songs or their chord changes. The guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel is ...
AllAboutJazz-New York October 2009 Issue Now Available!
When talking about the impact of Thelonious Monk, where does one begin? Is it his inimitable style and approach to the piano, one still being dissected today worldwide? Is it his body of compositional work, music absolutely essential to the repertoire of both the most straightahead and avant garde groups? Or perhaps his persona, defining the ...
Take Five With Trey Wright
by AAJ Staff
Meet Trey Wright: Trey Wright is a jazz guitarist, composer, and recording artist based in Roswell, Ga. While studying Sociology at the University of Georgia, Trey studied jazz improvisation with pianist and composer Steve Dancz. In 1994, he co-founded the Athens/Atlanta based jazz band Squat. The group is a six-time winner of Best Jazz Band at ...
Announcing New Recommendations at Rifftides
Eddie Higgins, Standards by Request, 1st Day and 2nd Day(Venus). Among those mourning Higgins' death are virtually all other jazz pianists and the Japanese. He was a celebrity among the large and enthusiastic coterie of listeners in Japan who are devoted to piano jazz. Higgins recorded nearly two dozen albums for Japan's Venus label. These solo ...
Joel Frahm / Bruce Katz: Project A
by Mark F. Turner
Joel Frahm and Bruce Katz's Project A is not a codename for a scientific research program or some covert operation, but, instead, a finger-snapping, toe-tapping tribute to the original Queen of Soul, singer Aretha Franklin. Frahm, a superlative saxophonist who has worked with Maynard Ferguson, Brad Mehldau and Kurt Rosenwinkel, is joined by ...
Take Five With Jake Hanlon
by AAJ Staff
Meet Jake Hanlon: Performer, composer and educator, Jake Hanlon currently resides in Antigonish Nova Scotia, a Professor of Music at Saint Francis Xavier University. A native of Nova Scotia Canada, Hanlon has had the opportunity to work some of the brightest and talented students and teachers in the world. In 2003 he graduated with Honors from ...
Eric Revis: Laughter's Necklace of Tears
by David Adler
Best known for his decade-plus with the Branford Marsalis Quartet, bassist Eric Revis has also thrived in trio settings with Avram Fefer, Peter Brötzmann and most recently Kurt Rosenwinkel, playing everything from pure straight-ahead to absolutely free. He debuted as a leader in 2004 with Tales of the Stuttering Mime (11:11), and he imbues his sophomore ...
Take Five With Walter Beltrami
by AAJ Staff
Meet Walter Beltrami:Studied performance and jazz composition at Berklee College of Music. Graduated in performance at Musikhochschule Luzern, CH. Three released CDs as a leader with Philology, CamJazz and Re:think-art records. Won the Luca Flores Jazz Price as best Italian soloist at Barga Jazz 2004 and one of the eight finalists world-wide of the ...
Mikkel Ploug Group: Harmoniehof
by Mark F. Turner
Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug, a rising player in the vein of such contemporaries as Kurt Rosenwinkel and Torben Waldorff, articulates his own vocabulary--one that contains folk, rock, and modern jazz sensibilities. Harmoniehof, the follow-up to Ploug's eponymous 2006 debut on Fresh Sound New Talent featuring saxophonist Mark Turner, further illuminates his tightly knit band.
Take Five With Noah Becker
by AAJ Staff
Meet Noah Becker:Noah Becker is a tenor saxophonist. A resident of New York City since 2004. Becker has recorded with Terry Deane, Kurt Rosenwinkel, George Colligan and many other prominent musicians.Instrument(s): Tenor, alto and soprano sax.Teachers and/or influences? Pat LaBarbera, Bob Mover, Sonny Rollins, Lee Konitz, John Coltrane.I ...
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