Results for "Mike Jacobs"

Adam Holzman and Brave New World: Iron Curtain

by Mike Jacobs
October 7, 2023

Keyboardist Adam Holzman may be known more these days for his work with the sometime Porcupine Tree progressive mastermind Steven Wilson but the biggest thing on AH's resume prior to his working with Wilson was his stint as keyman for one Miles Davis. Dropping the needle on “Iron Curtain," this all becomes crystal clear as it's ...

Eran Har Even: Rise

by Mike Jacobs
October 6, 2023

As the title might suggest, the music on guitarist Eran Har Even's album 20/21 sprang from the depths of the pandemic years, when musicians somehow found ways to live and express themselves in the absence of being able to perform live. The opening “Rise" as well as others from this album are indelibly marked by the ...

Naughty Professor: Kings

by Mike Jacobs
October 5, 2023

It seems that over the last few years, the New Orleans-based collective Naughty Professor has built up a reputation that has a lot of musicians ambling on down to the Crescent City to sit in with them. Their one/two punch of an ultra-tight rhythm section coupled with a sharper-than-a-tack horn section makes it easy to understand ...

Gretchen Parlato: Turning Into Blue

by Mike Jacobs
September 30, 2023

Étienne Mbappé & The Prophets: Johnji

by Mike Jacobs
September 24, 2023

Joe Zawinul and the Zawinul Syndicate: Zansa II

by Mike Jacobs
September 21, 2023

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Missing Parts

by Mike Jacobs
September 19, 2023

Like a few others (such as Maria Schneider and John Hollenbeck), Darcy James Argue seems bent on expanding the musical envelope of the big band via the instrumentation, repertoire and approach of his Secret Society. Though this piece from their 2013 Brooklyn Babylon project was designed to be heard in tandem with the highly stylized visuals ...

Ben Wendel High Heart: Drawn Away

by Mike Jacobs
August 11, 2023

Jon Herington: City Of Lights

by Mike Jacobs
August 10, 2023

"City of Lights" has a bit of lineage. From Jon Herington's Pulse And Cadence (ESC, 2008)--which itself is a reissue/repackage of his Japan-only debut album The Complete Rhyming Dictionary (Glass House, 1993)--the song was originally titled “Paris On Mine" and is a musical retort/homage to the John McLaughlin classic “New York On My Mind" [from Electric ...

Wayne Krantz: One Of Two

by Mike Jacobs
August 9, 2023

While the whole of Wayne Krantz's Signals (Enja, 1990) is a bit too impressive a debut to be called prototypical, the origins for what would become the meat of the guitarist's stylistic identity lie in “One Of Two." Along with its companion piece (the cleverly-titled “Two Of Two"), this solo performance is arguably the first recorded ...