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Eastern Rebellion: Mosaic
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Eastern Rebellion is a jazz super group that has toured and recorded, with various personnel changes, since the mid-1970s. The reissued treasure, Mosaic, features the 1992 version of the band, with charter members Cedar Walton and Billy Higgins on piano and drums respectively, David Williams on bass and Ralph Moore on tenor. These stellar players combine ...
Guy Klucevsek: Dancing on the Volcano
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
With good reason, Guy Klucevsek is considered one of the preeminent accordionists in new music. Firmly grounded in tradition, he can play all the styles associated with the instrument with a dizzying facility: fleet melodic runs, droning harmonic accompaniment and solid rhythmic support. No mere technician, Klucevsek's also a dynamic improviser--a quick-witted, deep listener, able to ...
White Rocket: White Rocket
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Formal constructs melt into freer passages, sometimes to return, sometimes not. The collective White Rocket traverses the notated and improvised on its ambitious eponymous debut. Trumpeter Jacob Wick met pianist Greg Felton and drummer Sean Carpio at the Banff Centre for Jazz and Creative Music; their easy affinity permeates the performances. With atypical instrumentation, the musicians ...
World Premiere of Wynton Marsalis's American Symphony November 19, 20 & 21, 2009
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Robert Spano will present the world premiere of Wynton Marsalis's American Symphony in Atlanta November 19-21, 2009. This will be Mr. Marsalis's first all-orchestral composition. A jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, bandleader, advocate for the arts, and educator, Wynton Marsalis has helped propel jazz to the forefront of American culture. ...
An Edifying Evening of Gerry Mulligan Gold
Bill Charlap waited until almost the last possible moment in The Gerry Mulligan Songbook, a tribute at the 92nd Street Y, before divulging a sentimental piece of trivia. It was in that room, he said, where he played his first concert with Mulligans quartet, in 1988. The evidence suggests that it was a fine debut: a ...
Plans for Woodstock 40th Anniversary Concert Nixed
Woodstock promoter Michael Lang has dropped plans for a 40th anniversary concert. Asked why he abandoned the pursuit for a third anniversary concert celebrating the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Lang simply told Rolling Stone, Money. No sponsors. Lang, one of the four partners to stage Woodstock in 1969, had wanted to hold a free concert ...
Steve Kuhn: Life's Backward Glances
by Stuart Broomer
Pianist Steve Kuhn recently explored the beginnings of his musical career on Mostly Coltrane (ECM, 2009). On this three-CD set, ECM commemorates Kuhn's mid-career work with reissues of three LPs recorded between 1974 and 1979. Life's Backward Glances is aptly titled and not just because two of the three albums conclude with Kuhn's song of the ...
Drori Mondlak: Point In Time
by Elliott Simon
Good drummers always seem to make all the right connections and Point In Time indicates that leader Drori Mondlak is, indeed, very well connected. He has brought together three marvelous instrumentalists and leaders in their own right--altoist/flutist Karolina Strassmayer, guitarist Cary DeNigris and bassist Steve LaSpina--for an intriguing quartet that strikes a perfect balance between the ...
J.D. Allen: Shine!
by Wilbur MacKenzie
Shine! is the second Sunnyside release by saxophonist JD Allen and his trio with bassist Gregg August and drummer Rudy Royston. A Detroit native, Allen has been based in New York for quite a few years now, working with bassist Ron Carter, saxophonist David Murray, trumpeter Lester Bowie and drummers Jack DeJohnette and Cindy Blackman.
Seamus Blake: Live in Italy
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Seamus Blake displays impressive talent as a tenor saxophonist, composer and leader on Live in Italy, a double CD documenting his quartet's tour through various cities in 2007, where audiences were treated to an eclectic blend of dynamic originals and standards. Originals like “The Jupiter Line," “Way Out of Willy" and “Fear of ...
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