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Scott Robinson: Scott Robinson Plays the Compositions of Thad Jones: Forever Lasting

by Ken Dryden
June 7, 2008

Thad Jones was best known as an outstanding composer/arranger, in addition to his abilities as a trumpeter and bandleader (various small groups, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and the Count Basie Orchestra, the latter following Basie's Death). Scott Robinson has long been an admirer of Jones and he may be one of the first to devote ...

George Schuller's Circle Wide: Like Before, Somewhat After

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
June 7, 2008

This writer's familiarity with the physical concept known as dewpoint is as extensive as can be expected from someone who spent much of her science classes with a literary magazine hidden underneath her notebook. “Dewpoint," the appropriately titled opening track of the sophomore release of George Schuller's Circle Wide, is perhaps as elucidating as any semester-long ...

Sten Hostfalt & Blaise Siwula Live at Stain NYC June 7

June 6, 2008

Nick Vayenas & World Culture Music at The Tribeca Performing Arts Center, NYC

by Budd Kopman
June 6, 2008

Nick Vayenas & World Culture MusicThe Tribeca Performing Arts CenterNew York City, New YorkMay 21, 2008 World Culture Music is an artists' collective music label founded by drummer Kendrick Scott. This concert was split into two halves, the first a showcase for the albums by the members of the collective, ...

Eric McPherson: Continuum

by Jim Santella
June 6, 2008

Drummer Eric McPherson leads a creative ensemble on this eclectic program for the free transmission of ideas. He's grown out of deep experience with the late legends Jackie McLean and Andrew Hill. Tradition remains intact as his ensemble interprets pieces by the former and bassist Richard Davis, while several original compositions power the drummer and his ...

Charles Lloyd Quartet: Rabo de Nube

by Stuart Broomer
June 6, 2008

Charles Lloyd has an obvious knack for assembling bands; it's been apparent since he first launched his quartet in the mid '60s with Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette and Cecil McBee or Ron McClure. In the decades following he's often employed fine musicians with very different styles, including pianists Michel Petrucciani and Geri Allen, guitarist John Abercrombie ...

David "Fathead" Newman: Diamondhead

by Martin Longley
June 6, 2008

It's quite possible that David “Fathead" Newman is a soulster at heart. All three of his original compositions for this session are heavily weighed towards a breezing 1960s retro sound, awash with R&B fluids. For the rest, though, he's emphatically a jazzman, as can be heard whenever Diamondhead (to give David his new nickname) plays a ...

Lucien Dubuis Trio: Le Retour

by Elliott Simon
June 5, 2008

Lucien Dubuis can blow it. Roman Nowka can pick it. Lionel Friedli can kick it. Le Retour, dig it. Difficult to describe but drawing inspiration from punk, funk, no wave and jazz, it is as if Parliament Funkadelic grew up downtown stripped of all their horns but one--but what a cool horn it is.

Tim Hagans: Alone Together

by Jim Santella
June 5, 2008

Bridging the gap between bandleader Stan Kenton's progressive experience and today's wide-open jazz market, trumpeter Tim Hagans defines modern jazz through a straight-ahead approach. Three years with the Kenton big band jump-started Hagans' career in the early 1970s after studying music at Bowling Green State University. Moving overnight from dedicated student to hard-working practitioner, Hagans found ...

Rob Brown: Crown Trunk Root Funk

by John Sharpe
June 5, 2008

One-off assemblages can be hit or miss affairs, but so powerful was saxophonist Rob Brown's ensemble at the 2006 Vision Festival that it was deemed essential that they were brought into the studio. With his carefully controlled use of harmonics and split tones, allied to a quicksilver inventiveness, Brown is one of the ...