Results for "Mark Walker"

With You For you

By Rebecca Perricone

Label: LaBek
Released: 2019
Track listing: Merci Bon Dieu ; This Masquerade ; Blues Is Good For The Soul ; Hold On ; Both Sides Now ; Is It Love ; Rain ; If You Go Away & Autumn Leaves ; Anger Eyes ; Winter Moon ; Wild Is The Wind ; Misty ; That Old Feeling ; Boulevard Of Broker Dreams ; Stay Awhile ; Good Morning Heartache ; No Use Trying ; Drown In My Own Tears

Josh Rosen

Josh Rosen has performed/recorded with jazz greats Joe Lovano, Mick Goodrick, George Garzone, Greg Hopkins, Bob Moses, Stan Strickland, Phil Grenadier, John Lockwood, Dennis Irwin, Steve Slagle, Bennie Wallace, George Schuller, The Either/Orchestra and Ethiopian master musicians Mulatu Astake and Mahmoud Ahmed, among many others.

A pianist and prolific composer, Rosen has released seven albums. “American Waltz” features jazz masters George Garzone and Mick Goodrick.

With Boston legend Stan Strickland (woodwinds, vocals), Rosen has produced three stellar albums: the intimate duo Instinct, Seasons (a jazz quartet; 2019) and Three Moments, a brilliant improvisational trio with master percussionist Ra Kalam Bob Moses.

Steve Khan: Patchwork

by John Kelman
September 16, 2019

Amongst the many myths out there about music-making—especially in jazz, where the improvisation quotient is often so high—is that composing may, indeed, be work, but doesn't require the kind of relentless attention to detail that far more truthfully defines how many artists write and arrange their music. These days, one need only look to music by ...

Mark Walker: You Get What You Give

by Ljubinko Zivkovic
June 16, 2019

Often, there is a tendency among jazz fans to simply pass by albums with drummers as the leaders of a CD release, as if they--the drummer/leaders--know less about jazz or music in general. As if examples of Elvin Jones, Art Blakey, Max Roach or those excellent vocal albums by Grady Tate are not good enough examples. ...

Greg Abate & The Tim Ray Trio: Gratitude: Stage Door Live @ the Z

by Jack Bowers
May 19, 2019

If somehow you haven't yet heard saxophonist Greg Abate (pronounced Uh-BAH-tay), now in his seventh decade and as sharp and eloquent an orator as ever, it is high time you did. The Rhode Island native is an earnest post-bopper from the Phil Woods / Bud Shank school of straight-on swinging, and Gratitude, Abate's fourth album with ...

23rd Punta Del Este Jazz Festival In Uruguay (Fourth Night)

by Pablo Reyes
January 14, 2019

On January 6, the fourth and final night of the 23rd Punta del Este Jazz Festival in Uruguay featured pianist Aaron Diehl's trio including bassist Paul Sikivie and drummer Quincy Davis as well as the duo of vocalist Nnenna Freelon and guitarist Chico Pinheiro. Alto saxophonist and clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera also presented The Music of Chick ...

Seasons

By Josh Rosen

Label: Ziggle Zaggle Music
Released: 2018
Track listing: Seasons; TriCycle for Punky; Third Way; Resurgence; Waltz Eleven; You Never Give Me Your Money; Hawthorn; Echo Park.

Paquito D’Rivera Quintet at the Regattabar

by Nat Seelen
December 4, 2018

Paquito D'Rivera Quintet Regattabar Cambridge, MA October 19, 2018 For over four decades, Paquito D'Rivera has been an institution in the global music scene. Flitting between jazz, latin, and classical music since he was a boy studying at the Havana Conservatory of Music, he's logged thousands of miles, ...

Michael William Gilbert: Radio Omnibus

by Geannine Reid
June 26, 2018

Computers and technology have changed our lives in so many ways that it is hard to fathom the speed in which our lives have transformed. This rapid transformation also applies to music. Home studios and digital distribution for the modern-day artist allows more musicians per capita to get their music heard on a larger scale. What ...

Michael William Gilbert: Radio Omnibus

by Mike Jurkovic
June 5, 2018

Much electronic music seems to fall into three distinct categories: 1) droning angst, dredged from the primordial soup, given a beat to get tribal to; 2) wash upon wave upon wash of textured android spirituality; 3) hugely unlistenable, period. But Michael William Gilbert's Radio Omnibus has a humor to it, and where humor is, lies a ...