Results for "Mack Avenue Records"

Erroll Garner: Night Concert

by Chris Mosey
July 12, 2018

It's the jazz equivalent of finding a Van Gogh or a Ming vase in the attic: the discovery of a complete 1964 perfectly recorded concert by one of the music's greatest virtuoso solo pianists. In the beginning was Art Tatum. Then came Oscar Peterson. Finally--and in many ways the most interesting of the holy trinity--was Erroll ...

Tia Fuller: Diamond Cut

by Hrayr Attarian
July 11, 2018

The engaging and enjoyable Diamond Cut is saxophonist Tia Fuller's fifth release as a leader and the first without a pianist. Fuller deftly fronts a different rhythm section on each half of the album. The only constant is guitarist Adam Rogers, whose restless, explorative style is the perfect foil for Fuller's ardent, poetic wit.

Christian Sands: Reach Further

by Mike Jurkovic
July 5, 2018

With full gale Monk-ian intensity and flair, pianist Christian Sands' five song EP, Reach Further bursts open with “J-Street" like the grandest, most swinging first flower in the new jazz garden. Then you hit repeat. Repeat again. Then you remember there are four more songs and the garden bursts with color. Comprised of two ...

Cyrille Aimée: Cyrille Aimee Live

by Chris Mosey
June 29, 2018

As a little girl, Cyrille Aimée would climb out of the bedroom window of her home in Samois-sur-Seine, near Fontainbleau in northern France and run off to join local gypsies by their camp fires, playing jazz and singing just as they did with Django Reinhardt (who is buried nearby). Reinhardt never managed to ...

Stanley Clarke: Stanley Clarke Band: The Message

by Chris Mosey
June 26, 2018

Once upon a time, he was the enfant terrible of jazz bassists, whizz-kid of Chick Corea's Return to Forever. On his latest album, The Message, at the ripe old age of 66, Stanley Clarke is very much the elder statesman, standing back on the cover pic, arms crossed, letting the youngsters grab the limelight and not ...

John Beasley: Monk'estra, Vol. 2

by Angelo Leonardi
May 23, 2018

Dopo il primo volume (Monk'estra vol.1, Mack Avenue 2016), John Beasley amplia l'organico e invita nuovi ospiti per un'altra rivisitazione del pianeta Monk. Galvanizzato dalle ottime accoglienze del debutto, il bandleader presenta nuovi estrosi arrangiamenti dal classico songbook del pianista. In effetti il vocabolario orchestrale monkiano è quasi tutto da costruire se si eccettuano i progetti ...

John Beasley

Born: October 10

Pianist • Composer • Arranger • Producer • Music Director

Two-time GRAMMY® Award winner and 14-time GRAMMY nominee (with two Latin GRAMMY nominations and an Emmy nomination), John Beasley is one of contemporary music’s most versatile and sought-after pianists, composers, and arrangers.

Launching his professional career in his early 20s with jazz legends Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard, Beasley quickly established himself as a dynamic force at the keyboard. Over the decades, he has collaborated with a wide range of artists, including Dianne Reeves, Sergio Mendes, John Patitucci, Chaka Khan, Christian McBride, and Carly Simon.

Cecile McLorin Salvant: Dreams and Daggers

by Angelo Leonardi
March 12, 2018

È un disco importante questo di Cécile McLorin Salvant. Il disco della piena maturità, quello che segna la consacrazione della giovane vocalist nell'olimpo del canto jazz. Dopo tre lavori in studio (l'ultimo dei quali vincitore di un Grammy) Cécile dimostra con questo doppio live di non essere solo la voce afro-americana più avvincente del presente ma ...

Julian Lage: Modern Lore

by Doug Collette
February 11, 2018

Modern Lore constitutes a measure of guitarist Julian Lage's grasp of the pragmatic values of a working musician. Adhering to the same three-piece unit with which he recorded his prior solo album, Arclight (Mack Avenue, 2016), he applies continuity to a career that has in recent years included solo work and duo shows with Nels Cline ...

Julian Lage: Modern Lore

by Gareth Thompson
January 27, 2018

As a young guitar prodigy, Julian Lage often went to gigs at the Bay Area jazz club Yoshi's. There he would sit up front, put his head on stage and watch admiringly. Backing his early heroes at Yoshi's were two musicians who now form a trio with Lage. Double bassist Scott Colley and drummer Kenny Wollesen ...