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George Robert Jazztet: Remember the Sound (Homage to Michael Brecker)
by George Kanzler
Working with a tentet similar to mid-size bands he's led on his own projects, composer/arranger Jim McNeely has fashioned a musical tribute to the late Michael Brecker that manages to conjure up aspects of the late saxophonist's music and musical personality, without resorting to overt mimicry or pastiche. Led by alto saxophonist George Robert, with faculty ...
Bobby Previte: Pan Atlantic
by A. Henkin
The “mashup," the blending of two or more songs to create a new work, has steadily gained popularity over the last decade. It is only fitting then that creative musicians feel free to utilize a similar approach when producing original music. Drummer Bobby Previte's Pan Atlantic seems to be an excellent example. The ...
Ned Rothenberg / Catherine Jauniaux / Barre Phillips: While You Were Out
by Kurt Gottschalk
Belgian vocalist Catherine Jauniaux is one the most underappreciated of a generation of free improv vocalists. Less a storyteller than Shelley Hirsch, more overtly musical than Phil Minton or Jaap Blonk, she falls somewhere between their spontaneous explorations and the avant art songs of Joan La Barbara. She has released only a handful of records with ...
Hakon Kornstad: Dwell Time
by A. Henkin
32-year-old Norwegian saxophonist Håkon Kornstad continues to skirt the competing modern Scandinavian jazz aesthetics of Jan Garbarek and Mats Gustafsson. In 2008 he participated in the stunning Elise (Compuctio, 2008), a delicate acoustic duo exploration with bassist and countryman Ingebrigt Håker Flaten. Kornstad's Dwell Time is, in many ways, a companion piece to that disc in ...
Bobby Sanabria: Kenya Revisited LIVE!!! (feat. Candido)
by Graham L. Flanagan
Led by percussionist Bobby Sanabria, the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra delivers a worthy tribute to one of the greatest AfroCuban jazz recordings ever made: Machito's Kenya. Recorded in 1957, Kenya exists for many as one of the essential albums of its kind. It's absolutely appropriate that, more than half a ...
Kalle Kalima / Ed Schuller / Ernst Bier: Jazz Parasites: Very Early
by Marc Medwin
Parasites is an international trio that has been in existence for over five years. Drummer Ernst Bier and bassist Ed Schuller's long-fostered musical partnership is evident throughout, resulting in an airtight but loosely swinging rhythmic feel, no matter what the context. Similarly, guitarist Kalle Kalima demonstrates his diverse influences while never falling victim to them. He'll ...
Torrie Zito: A Retrospective
by Nick Catalano
The extraordinary career of composer/arranger/pianist Torrie Zito provides an opportunity to reconsider the criteria by which we evaluate musical achievement. Because Zito attained his heights primarily as an orchestra writer, scholars need to examine his achievements alongside those of Ravel, Debussy and Faure who received plaudits for their work as classical composers. And although Zito created ...
New York Warms to Winter Jazzfest
The weekend event hopes to fill the void created by the loss of the International Assn. of Jazz Educators. Winter Jazzfest is “not like most jazz festivals, which tend to be overly corporate," Jason Moran says. Violinist Jenny Scheinman is eagerly anticipating this weekend's Winter Jazzfest in Manhattan -- not only because she'll be introducing her ...
Curtain Comes Down on Sad 'Ragtime' Band
A hit at the Kennedy Center, the complex musical with ensemble cast can't find its legs in New York. Before the Dec. 28 evening performance of “Ragtime," the show's producers asked the cast to assemble on the stage of the Neil Simon Theatre for the dreaded announcement that always turns Broadway dreams to cinders: The lovingly ...
Jazz Vocalists Shirley Crabbe and Dexter Porter to Perform Live at the Metropolitan Room, February 5th, 2010
Jazz Vocalists Shirley Crabbe and Dexter Porter to perform live at the Metropolitan Room, February 5th, 2010 New York, NY - Jazz vocalists Shirley Crabbe and Dexter Porter are joining forces in February to bring a night of unique jazz sounds to the Metropolitan Room. Long-time friends and no strangers to the New York jazz scene, ...
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