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Michael Wolff: The Art of Communication
by Todd S. Jenkins
The idea of music as communication is as old as music itself, and has become just about as clichéd as some of its referents. Igor Stravinsky once opined that music was powerless to communicate anything. And, truth be told, the number of active instrumentalists who can successfully communicate thoughts, feelings, concepts and dogmas without words is ...
Michael Wolff: Impure Thoughts On Hold
by Todd S. Jenkins
Pianist Michael Wolff has some of the most expansive vision of anyone working in jazz today. Born in the California High Desert, raised in New Orleans and now making his home in Manhattan, the well-traveled, big-eared Wolff is never short on surprises for his listeners. With his dazzling Impure Thoughts ensemble on hiatus, Wolff's two current ...
Michael Wolff Trio: jazz, Jazz, jazz
by John Barron
It's difficult to pigeonhole Michael Wolff. The celebrated pianist/composer has been able to successfully navigate a career between commercial and non-commercial music. His performance credits include Cannonball Adderley, Nancy Wilson, Warren Zevon and, perhaps most memorably, a high-profile stint as musical director for The Arsenio Hall Show. With jazz, Jazz, jazz, as the title so brazenly ...
Michael Wolff Trio: jazz, JAZZ, jazz
by Joel Roberts
Pianist Michael Wolff has had a career that can best be described as eclectic. Along with serious jazz stints with Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins and Nancy Wilson, he's played with rocker Warren Zevon, explored world music, recorded an album as a vocalist and had a high-profile five-year gig as the bandleader on The Arsenio Hall Show. ...
Take Five With Michael Wolff
by AAJ Staff
Meet Michael Wolff: Michael Wolff is a genuine hipster--a Manhattan-based family man and internationally acclaimed pianist-composer-bandleader whose late night, blue light singing on Love and Destruction, his tenth album, brings new cool to an inspired selection of rock/pop classics as well as his own tunes about the well-lived life.A baby boomer in his prime, ...
Dangerous Vision
Label: Artemis Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. Dangerous Vision 4:48 2. Work Song 6:27 3. Love Supreme 3:11 4. St. Thomas 6:31 5. Rupak 7:45 6. Heart and Soul 6:29 7. In the Moment 5:36 8. Empty House 7:11 9. Soul Sauce 6:00.
Michael Wolff & Impure Thoughts: Dangerous Vision
by Ken Franckling
From the opening trill of repetitive block chords on Michael Wolff's piano and a brash hip-hop drumbeat compliments of Mike Clark on the opening title track, listeners tuning in to Dangerous Vision will sense rather quickly that they're in for an exhilarating ride. This third recording by Wolff's working band, Impure Thoughts, is its finest moment ...
Intoxicate
Label: Indianola Music
Released: 2002
Track listing: Badd Al;
Witchhunt;
Bells;
Kempta;
Sidewinder;
Cool;
Pandoras Box;
Sexual Healing;
Witchhunt (Remix).
