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Scott Amendola vs. Wil Blades: Greatest Hits
by Doug Collette
Hardly the adversarial enterprise its billing implies, Greatest Hits is not keyboardist Wil Blades' first duo with a master percussionist: he recorded Shimmy (Amulet, 2012) with Billy Martin (of Medeski, Martin & Wood fame) in 2012. And any music lover who relished Martin's somewhat more abstract collaboration with keyboardist Medeski, Mago (Amulet, 2007) will be nevertheless ...
Vasil Hadzimanov: Alive - featuring David Binney
by Claudio Bonomi
Ottimo e abbondante il menu di “cucina" fusion offerto da questo live confezionato dal compositore e tastierista serbo Vasil Hadzimanov insieme al suo gruppo che, per l'occasione, si onora della collaborazione del noto sassofonista americano David Binney (virtuoso del sax alto, noto oltre che per i suoi numerosi lavori come leader per aver suonato con Uri ...
Guitars Galore: Major Vistas, Joe Policastro Trio, Dan Arcamone, Charlie Ballantine, Sound Underground, & Kay-Ta Matsuno
by Mark Sullivan
A brief overview of several notable 2016 contemporary jazz releases featuring guitarists. Major Vistas Minor Anthems Self Produced 2016 A fresh approach to the jazz trio, and the debut release from Madison, Wisconsin's Major Vistas. Keyboardist Mike Weiser says he thinks of it as a modern “organ" ...
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2016
by John Kelman
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 22 -July 3, 2016 It's hard to believe, with seasons that move quickly from spring into summer, that it was time, once again, for the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival. Now in its 36th year, the festival has grown from a weekend event into a full-blown, ...
Who Listens to Jazz
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
There is an old Indian legend about several blind men examining an elephant. Each examines a different part of the creature and comes to a completely dissimilar conclusion as to what it is. Then the elephant, in a state of musth, stomps the helpless bastards to death to get at a '67 VW Microbus he mistakes ...
Take Five with Jayson Tipp / Under The Lake
by Under The Lake
About Jayson Tipp from Under The Lake: “Effervescent, vivacious and all-together engaging" is how one reviewer describes Under The Lake's music, an original sound that Don Dilorio of the North Jersey Herald and News says “doesn't sit easy in any category, thanks to its heavy doses of funkified bass and occasional soul references." It's ...
James Brandon Lewis: Days of Freeman
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by Angelo Leonardi
Una delle promesse più significative del jazz attuale pubblica il terzo disco da leader, confermando la formula del trio con un progetto e una partnership nuovi. Se nel precedente Divine Travels (Okeh, 2014) aveva come padri tutelari William Parker e Gerald Cleaver in un percorso ispirato alla tradizione gospel, stavolta il sassofonista si rivolge ...
TD Toronto Jazz Festival 2015
by Alain Londes
TD Toronto Jazz Festival Various locations Toronto, Canada June 18-29, 2015 With festival season in full swing, it's always an opportunity to see what the state of jazz is and to hopefully discover something new. The challenge is of course that there are always many choices and one might be guided ...
Gov't Mule with John Scofield at the Ogden Theatre
by Geoff Anderson
Gov't Mule with John Scofield Ogden Theatre Denver, CO February 24, 2015 A jazz guy plays with a heavy rock band? That would be the superficial description of Sco-Mule. A deeper examination shows that John Scofield and Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes are twin brothers of different mothers. Each possesses a yearning, ...
Gov't Mule Featuring John Scofield: Sco-Mule
by John Kelman
Since the news came out that Gov't Mule was finally releasing Sco-Mule, a collaboration with broad-minded jazz guitarist John Scofield, there's been plenty of speculation and anticipation. The power trio began as a part-time side project for then-Allman Brothers Band guitarist/singer Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody but, along with drummer Matt Abts, was so well-received ...
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