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Matt Wilson, Bill Bruford, Bria Skonberg, and Sammy Davis Jr.
by Jerome Wilson
This episode's wide musical reach takes in Matt Wilson, Bill Bruford, Bria Skonberg and Sammy Davis Jr..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 Cannonball Adderley “A Foggy Day" from The George Shearing / Cannonball Adderley Quintets ...
Ron Carter and Bill Frisell at Birdland
by Paul Reynolds
Ron Carter and Bill Frisell Birdland Ron Carter Annual Residency New York, NY October 15, 2026Ron Carter and Bill Frisell have sustained a thirty-year mutual admiration society, praising each other in a way that goes beyond the usual platitudes spouted by artistic collaborators. The veteran bassist--now 89--has said of the singular guitarist ...
Cory Weeds: Hip to Be Square Plays Huey Lewis & The News
by Pierre Giroux
There is something wonderfully mischievous about Cory Weeds taking on Huey Lewis And The News. At first glance, the pairing might seem unlikely, but spend a little time with Hip to Be Square - Plays Huey Lewis & The News (Boop Bop Bing Bash!) and the logic becomes clear. The band's songs were built on strong melodies, ...
Ron Carter Foursight Quartet at Birdland
by Dan Bilawsky
There are hints of autumn everywhere. The leaves are turning. Temperatures are dropping, winking at sweater weather. Everything is coming up pumpkin. And for the initiated--in The City That Never Sleeps, at Birdland, “The Jazz Corner of the World"--Ron-tober has taken hold. A major sign of the season, Ron Carter's month-long run at that club has ...
George Garzone: Themes For Good Friends
by Pierre Giroux
Tenor saxophonist George Garzone's album Themes For Good Friends is especially satisfying because the musicians involved seem to be simply enjoying the music, with nothing to prove. In the beautifully recorded session at Van Gelder Studios, Garzone has surrounded himself with fellow masters, including trumpeter Randy Brecker, pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Santi Debriano and drummer Jeff ...
Benny Green: Renovation
by Pierre Giroux
There are pianists who play solo because they have something to prove, and then there are pianists like Benny Green, who have nothing to prove and regard the absence of a rhythm section as an invitation. On Renovation, his first live solo recording, Green seems to be enjoying himself. Most of these 13 performances were recorded ...
Sullivan Fortner: The Music Tells You Where to Go
by Leo Sidran
It is hard to overstate the exuberance and awe expressed by other musicians when talking about Sullivan Fortner. At under 40 years old, he is one of a small handful of pianists who have moved the instrument and its potential forward. And by doing so, he's demonstrated that innovation can happen from within the tradition of ...
Two Views Of A Masterpiece
by John Chacona
As a jazz composer is it better to be a hedgehog or a fox, to write music that is so irreducibly singular that there is only one way to perform it or do be so embracingly universal that one's genius spreads like pollinator bees? Arguably Wayne Shorter, fairly unanimously embraced as the greatest jazz composer of ...
Jalen Baker: RePaved
by Pierre Giroux
Occasionally, an album comes along that shakes up your thinking about what jazz can do. Jalen Baker's RePaved might be that album. On the surface, it is an eight- part suite about Houston's historic Black neighbourhoods, particularly the 3rd Ward, where Baker's family has deep roots spanning four generations. But on closer listening, it becomes more ...
Sullivan Fortner: Leave That In There
by Pierre Giroux
Sullivan Fortner has never been an artist short on ideas. But Leave That In There feels different. It is the sound of a musician who has distilled everything he has absorbed from his deep well of Gulf South upbringing, from the piano giants and from spirituals and street parades, into his own language. It is easily ...
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