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Dave Pietro: The Chakra Suite
by Elliott Simon
Alto saxophonist Dave Pietro is a heck of a bop player who, with his recent projects, has integrated world music and culture into his oeuvre. The Chakra Suite is a concept album that uses the seven bodily energy centers, or chakras, that are central to Indian medicine, as an organizational framework. These move in ascending order ...
Joseph Bloch, Guide to Juilliard Pianists, Dies at 91
The pianist confronts an embarrassment of riches. To a performer embarking on a concert career, five centuries of keyboard music beckon, with every phrase of every prelude and fugue, every sonata and partita, mazurka and minuet, impromptu and intermezzo, rhapsody and fantasy and scherzo and concerto the hundreds of thousands of pieces the repertory comprises open ...
Last Night at the Beacon with the Allman Brothers
As the Allman Brothers Band get more comfortable in New York’s Beacon Theatre, their home for the rest of March, more friends are stopping by each night to jam. Last night’s show upped the ante with living legend Buddy Guy, who led the band through a pair of blues standards before being joined onstage by Trey ...
A String Quartet That Can Easily Morph into a Jazz Band
On its Web site the Ebne Quartet has all the usual things, from a biography and a touring schedule to music clips and an estimable repertory list, as well as a link to The Other Ebne. Click on it, and you will find recordings of the groups improvisations on jazz standards and a Bruce Springsteen song, ...
Denny Zeitlin
by Ken Dryden
For over four decades, Denny Zeitlin has juggled practicing psychiatry, teaching in a medical school, playing jazz piano, composing, arranging, touring and pursuing a number of hobbies. Zeitlin was already playing professionally in high school, graduated Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Illinois, then entered Johns Hopkins Medical School. Zeitlin spent his evenings studying, though ...
Horace Silver: Live at Newport '58
by Stuart Broomer
From his first recordings with the Jazz Messengers in 1954, Horace Silver's values as pianist, bandleader and composer have been clearly evident: buoyant swing propelled by strong riffs and ensemble drive, along with expressive, edited-in-advance solos. There's a kind of controlled enthusiasm at the center of Silver's music, a slightly formal celebration that owes much to ...
Jay Clayton: The Peace of Wild Things
by Florence Wetzel
Innovative singer Jay Clayton has forged a career out of taking chances and exploring the possibilities inherent in the human voice. The Peace of Wild Things is a subtly adventurous mix of voice, electronics and poetry. Each of the nine songs features a poem; five are by the renowned poet E.E. Cummings, with others by jazz ...
Mike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Orchestra: Quake
by Elliott Simon
Duke Ellington's legacy is alive and well with pianist Mike Holober and The Gotham Jazz Orchestra. Holober makes use of the increased musical scope that 17 pieces give him to weave compositional strength within a sound that sways more than swings. Some of the finest jazzers New York City has to offer join ...
Central Park Summerstage Sets Schedule
This year’s free concerts at Central Park SummerStage will begin on June 12 with a performance by the New York Pops. Among the 29 other free shows confirmed so far by the City Parks Foundation: Wally Lamb reading from his latest novel, “The Hour I First Believed” (June 17); French tennis star ...
Phil Woods Business-Casual Sax with Nonchalant Wit
The alto saxophonist Phil Woods wore his mastery with nonchalance at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on Thursday night. Leading his quintet, a working band with a wealth of accumulated knowledge, he kept a loosely efficient air: business casual, with equal emphasis on both words. There was wit and aplomb in his playing, and even an occasional flash ...
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