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Pianist/Composer Michele Rosewoman's New CD Set for October 3 Release
With the October 3, 2006 release of The In Side Out (Advance Dance Disques AD 0353)--Michele Rosewoman's first new recording since 2000 and the fifth with her ensemble Quintessence--the renowned pianist once again makes a powerful creative statement that showcases the breadth and depth or her musicality and affirms in no uncertain terms her position as ...
16-Station Georgia Public Broadcasting Network Expands Its Jazz Programming with Jazz Without Borders
Georgia Public Broadcasting is pleased to add another original program to its jazz line-up. Beginning October 7 veteran jazz journalist and publicist Mitchell Feldman will start producing and hosting “Jazz Without Borders" from the studios of WACG/ 90.7FM in Augusta each week from midnight Saturday until 3AM Saunday. This new show expands the stylistic and geographic ...
Julia Feldman Ensemble: Words Are Worlds (A Tribute To Billie Holiday)
by Eyal Hareuveni
Words Are Worlds, the debut release by Israeli vocalist Julia Feldman, is an inspired tribute to the work and personality of Billie Holiday. Feldman, augmented by pianist, composer and arranger Yitzhak Yedid and bassist Ora Boasson-Horev, interprets songs identified with Holiday, focusing on the lyrics, thus enabling herself and her trio partners to present a fresh ...
Gary Smulyan: Hidden Treasures
by Greg Thomas
Hidden Treasures smokes from the very first cut. Joined here by bassist Christian McBride and drummer Billy Drummond, Gary Smulyan makes a major statement with every new release. He eschewed smaltz for hard swing on Gary Smulyan with Strings. On Blues Suite he played fiery baritone sax with a brass section. He led a straight-ahead, take-no-prisoners ...
We Three Pianos: Worlds, My Romance, The Nights of Bradley's
by Suzanne Lorge
Aaron Goldberg Worlds Sunnyside Records 2006 Jon Mayer My Romance Reservoir Music 2005 Kirk Lightsey The Nights of Bradley's Sunnyside Records 2004
Spheres Duo: In Concert
by Michael Feldman
Nowadays the border between jazz and modern classical music is becoming narrower and actually vanishing. The Spheres Duo offers good proof, exploring a multicoloured sound and realizing extraordinary results from the unique linkage of piano, vibraphone and percussion. Arnon Zimra and Zvi Joffe met first at the Tel Aviv Music Academy in 1991, when they performed ...
Dick Berk on Reservoir Music
by David A. Orthmann
Dick Berk is the epitome of an accomplished jazz musician who has done everything except receive the widespread recognition he richly deserves. In a career spanning a half-century, Berk has played in the groups of legendary figures Billie Holiday and Charles Mingus, as well as with high profile musicians like Freddie Hubbard, Milt Jackson, Cal Tjader, ...
Bill Stewart: Keynote Speakers; Larry Goldings: Quartet
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Bill Stewart Trio Keynote Speakers Bill Stewart Music 2006 The trio of instruments on Keynote Speakers is quite unconventional, with keyboardists Larry Goldings and Kevin Hays bookending Bill Stewart's drums. On the opening tune, “Good Goat, Goldings sprints on the Hammond and Hays grooves on the electric piano ...
The Omer Avital Group: Asking No Permission
by Brian P. Lonergan
The Omer Avital Group was a mainstay at New York's Smalls club in the mid '90s. An unfortunate turn of events with record companies suppressed the bassist/composer's major label debut, and in recent years Avital has spent more time working and studying in his native Israel. But with the release of Asking No Permission and a ...
Eyal Maoz: Edom
by Michael Feldman
Guitarist Eyal Maoz, known as a leader of Lemon Juice, is joined here by organist John Medeski, bassist Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, and drummer Ben Perowsky. Edom, a new entry in the Radical Jewish Culture series on John Zorn's Tzadik Records, is influenced by both Mediterranean music and Jewish folklore, composed and played through the musical prism ...
