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World-Renowned Smoke Jazz Club Ends The Year With The Annual Coltrane Festival 'Countdown 2023,' And More
Holiday Shows: Allan Harris (Dec 7-8) Orrin Evans All-Star Quintet (Dec 9-11) Goldings/Bernstein/Stewart Trio (Dec 15-18) Coltrane Festival: George Coleman, Eric Alexander, Melissa Aldana, Eric Reed, Vincent Herring, Billy Harper, Billy Hart, and More (Dec 20-Jan 8) and more... One of New York City's premier live music venues, Smoke Jazz Club, presents a stellar ...
Horace Silver: His Only Mistake Was To Smile
by Chris May
In his sleeve note for the audio restored Horace Silver album Live New York Revisited (ezz-thetics, 2022), British writer Brian Morton cut to the chase. “[Silver]'s only mistake," he wrote, “was to smile while he was playing... a challenge to the notion that jazz should be deadly serious and played with a pained rictus."
Ricky Ford: From Across the Sea
by R.J. DeLuke
Ricky Ford is a badass tenor saxophonist. Many will recall his fierce and strong playing on his Muse releases in the '80s. Others may be aware that he was a stalwart member of big bands like the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the leadership of Mercer Ellington and with Charles Mingus and later the Mingus Dynasty band. ...
McCoy Tyner / Freddie Hubbard Quartet: Live At Fabrik
by Chris May
Warning! Highly Flammable Material! This superb album, recorded in Hamburg in 1986 and never previously released, ought to come with a caution, so incendiary is it. Strictly speaking, Live At Fabrik presents pianist McCoy Tyner's trio with bassist Avery Sharpe and drummer Louis Hayes and guest artist Freddie Hubbard on trumpet and flugelhorn. ...
Meet Jack Sirica
by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
Self-raised on rock and roll, Jack Sirica's connection to music always comes back to rhythm. Sure, there was that teenage flirtation with a Fender Mustang electric guitar (which ended when his dad, worried about slipping grades, intervened), but Sirica credits Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts' swing feel on the ride cymbal for opening up his ears ...
Chemistry
By Joris Teepe
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Steepian Faith; One Finger Snap; Steps; Morning; Song For My Father; The Optimist; Dizzy's Bussines; Unit 7.
Crisis
By Louis Hayes
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Arab Arab; I'm Afraid the Masquerade Is Over; Desert Moonlight; Where Are You?; Creeping Crud; Alien Visitation; Crisis; Oxygen; It's Only a Paper Moon
Ilaria Capalbo, Nate Smith, Sky Creature, Louis Hayes & Other New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
Riveting saxophone solos rocketing us into the stratosphere, eclectic vocalists, legendary drummers and more, including the otherwordly beauty that Ha-Yang Kim and Ayesha Brooks add to the already striking compositions of Wayne Horvitz, and the compelling sophomore release by bassist Ilaria Capalbo.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & ...
Louis Hayes: Crisis
by Jack Bowers
Louis Hayes--who has been a force in jazz drumming for more than sixty years, anchoring legendary groups led by Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, among others--has assembled a quintet of New York City's finest for Crisis, wherein he pays musical tribute to some of his jazz colleagues, past and present, ...
Hard Bop: Ten Essential Live Albums
by Chris May
"Fire! That's what people want. Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life. You're supposed to make them turn around, pat their feet. That's what jazz is about. Play with fire. Play from the heart, not from your brain. You got to know how to make the two meet." So ...
