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Patrick Cornelius: Fierce
by Dan Bilawsky
Fierce isn't the most inviting album title in the world. People with a penchant for gauging albums based on single-word descriptors could be scared off here, but they'd be missing out on some bold performances that are creative and, yes, occasionally fierce. Some of the most striking music coming out these days seems ...
Bassist Michael Janisch to Record Live Album with Lee Konitz at Pizza Express Jazz Club, London on May 19 and 20.
Michael Janisch who is a composer, bandleader, and curator of a monthly creative jazz residency at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club will be performing with the Legendary Lee Konitz along with Dan Tepfer (Piano) and Jeff Williams (Drums) on May 19 and 20, 2010 in a two house per night showing. These series of concerts will ...
Michael Janisch: Purpose Built
by Edward Blanco
A relative newcomer on the international jazz scene, Michael Janisch is an American bassist currently living in London and making his debut recording with the very impressive Purpose Built, a potent selection of eight original composition and four familiar jazz standards. Janisch offers a diverse repertoire of melody-rich, sophisticated charts in a musical palette of essentially ...
Upcoming Tour Dates for Bassist/Composer Michael Janisch
Bassist and Composer Michael Janisch hits the road again this month with a nationwide (UK) sextet tour promoting the release of his critically acclaimed album “Purpose Built." On these dates he has arranged his music to feature the saxophone team of Joel Frahm matched with two of England's top reedsmen: Alex Garnett and Nigel Hitchcock. The ...
Bassist/Composer Michael Janisch Releases Debut Album "Purpose Built" on Whirlwind Recordings.
Bassist/Composer Michael Janisch calls his new album Purpose Built, and with one listen to this debut recording it leaves no doubt to the listener why he is one of the premier creative musicians of his generation. One of the most productive and innovative young bassists on the jazz scene today, Janisch--whose has shared the stage with ...
Michael Janisch: Purpose Built
by Woodrow Wilkins
The first notes of Purpose Built's opening track draw attention, setting up a pleasurable jaunt into the world of Michael Janisch on this 30 year-old bassist's debut as a bandleader. Born in the United States and now residing in London, England, Janisch is skilled at both the acoustic and the electric bass. He has ...
Michael Janisch: Purpose Built
by J Hunter
At a glance, Purpose Built, bassist Michael Janisch's debut as a leader, looks like a big-band session. The roster on the back of the CD case is not just stocked with notables, it's a long list of notables. As such, it would make sense to imagine this group arranged on risers, pinning the studio's needles as ...
Bassist/Composer Michael Janisch Releases Debut Album "Purpose Built" on Whirlwind Recordings
Bassist/Composer Michael Janisch calls his new album Purpose Built, and with one listen to this debut recording it leaves no doubt to the listener why he is one of the premier creative musicians of his generation. One of the most productive and innovative young bassists on the jazz scene today, Janisch--whose has shared the stage with ...
Michael Janisch: Purpose Built
by Chris May
Since moving to Britain from the US in 2005, bassist Michael Janisch has put much of his energy into collaborative projects involving musicians from the two countries. It's hardly a radical idea, but it's as good a shtick as any with which to carve a profile, and along with his prodigious instrumental talents, Janisch is an ...
TransAtlantic Collective: Traveling Song
by Bruce Lindsay
In recent years jazz groups have begun to give themselves names that give nothing away about their composition or style. The TransAtlantic Collective bucks the trend with a name that offers a more helpful description of itself: a group of musicians from the USA, Britain and mainland Europe. American saxophonist Patrick Cornelius, British trumpeter Quentin Collins, ...
