Home » Search Center » Results: New York City

Results for "New York City"

363

Article: Multiple Reviews

James Carter: Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge & Two Dreams

by Russ Musto
December 11, 2004

James Carter Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge Warner Bros. 2004 James Carter is a passionate player whose solos are frequently pushed over the top by his awesome virtuosity. That tendency is put to good use on this live extravaganza recorded before a raucous crowd at Baker's Keyboard Lounge. Joined by ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

David Hazeltine and Jim Rotondi: Close to You & New Vistas

by Russ Musto
December 10, 2004

These two new releases by Criss Cross regulars David Hazeltine and Jim Rotondi present the pair in different contexts from their earlier releases on the label, permitting the two to showcase some additional aspects of their increasingly recognized mastery of the jazz tradition. David Hazeltine Close to You Criss Cross ...

222

Article: Multiple Reviews

Evan Parker: America 2003 & The Bishop's Move

by A. Henkin
December 10, 2004

In sports, when a starting player goes down with an injury, it sometimes gives a bench player an opportunity to contribute in special ways. When Brit bassist Barry Guy had personal issues that made his participation in last year's Evan Parker Trio tour impossible, German pianist Alex Von Schlippenbach stepped right in. While no one would ...

362

Article: Multiple Reviews

Kenny Werner: Naked in the Cosmos & Peace

by Ty Cumbie
December 10, 2004

Kenny Werner & The Brussels Jazz Orchestra Naked in the Cosmos Jazz n' Pulz 2003 If a single contemporary recording were recommended as cliff notes for an impatient student eager to get a feel for smooth jazz, atmospheric new age elevator music, the angular contortions of Sam Rivers' big band ...

191

Article: Multiple Reviews

Raphe Malik: Last Set & Sympathy

by Clifford Allen
December 9, 2004

What is sometimes sorely missed among the current crop of players in the jazz “tradition" (and by “tradition" I mean both straight-ahead and free music) is a sense of weight. This weight, or gravity, is both sonic and metaphysical and improvised music is at a loss without it. While he was a regular member of the ...

108

Article: Multiple Reviews

Frank Hewitt: We Loved You & Not Afraid to Live

by Celeste Sunderland
December 9, 2004

Oh the woebegone days of a jazz musician, as he makes his way toward mastery, accompanying many of the greats, struggling to keep abreast of the industry, make a name for himself, playing nightly at local clubs, garnering a base of fans, but most of them poor musicians themselves... Such was the way of life for ...

363

Article: Album Review

Gary Windo: Anglo American

Read "Anglo American" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin
December 9, 2004

Sometimes musicians are more famous for their associations. Gary Windo, a late Brit hornman from a period with no end of visionary English saxophonists, may be a strangely familiar name. Check your LP stacks: have anything by the Brotherhood of Breath (BOB)? Ray Russell or Robert Wyatt? Hugh Hopper or Carla Bley? Maybe even NRBQ? If ...

143

Article: Album Review

Luis Perdomo: Focus Point

Read "Focus Point" reviewed by Russ Musto

by Russ Musto
December 9, 2004

Luis Perdomo's maiden voyage as a leader is as impressive a debut disc as any released by a young musician in recent memory. The pianist/composer presents ten original compositions (eight by himself) in a variety of settings (solo, duo, trio, quartet and quintet) that clearly demonstrate how woefully inadequate the term Latin jazz is in describing ...

588

Article: Profile

Legend of the Pharoah

by AAJ Staff
December 8, 2004

By Jennifer Odell After a recent performance of Before the Blues , a new ballet by the Lines Ballet Company, someone from the audience asked choreographer Alonzo King where he got the idea to pair a Pharoah Sanders composition with music by the baroque composer Arcangelo Corelli. “It was odd ...

339

Article: Album Review

Roy Haynes: Quiet Fire

by AAJ Staff
December 8, 2004

Quiet Fire repackages two oddball Roy Haynes Galaxy discs, Thank You, Thank You (1977) and Vistalite (1978), into one intermittently interesting extra-length CD of duets, trios, quartets, quintets, sextets and septets. Though the cast is strong (players include George Cables, Stanley Cowell, Ron Carter, Bobby Hutcherson, Cecil McBee and Joe Henderson), the music is ...