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Oliver Lake Big Band, Jimmy Heath Big Band, Lee Konitz, Lock 10, Jason Miles & DJ Logic, Dave Douglas & Keystone...
by Martin Longley
The Oliver Lake Big Band/Joe GiardulloRouletteApril 3, 2008This gig was set to be an example of complete polar opposites, from the bands of two veteran saxophonists. The Brooklynite soprano (and sopranino) player Joe Giardullo was leading a chamber septet, performing a selection of works that he terms 'G-2,' the 'g' ...
Gerald Cleaver: Detroit
by Tom Greenland
Detroit, Gerald Cleaver's sophomore release and a tone portrait of the Motor City, further establishes the drummer, best known as a prolific and versatile sideman, as a leader and composer in his own right. A brief photo essay in the liner notes displaying dilapidated buildings and skid-row denizens strikes a melancholy tone, but the music is ...
John Ellis and Double-Wide: Dance Like There's No Tomorrow
by Joel Roberts
That's the low roar of a sousaphone--courtesy of New Orleans' Matt Perrine--you hear on the opening notes of “All Up in the Aisles," the first tune on Brooklyn-based saxophonist John Ellis' soulful Dance Like There's No Tomorrow. A North Carolina preacher's son who spent his formative musical years in the Crescent City before moving up north, ...
Various Artists: Miles From India
by Jeff Stockton
Miles Davis' electric period is his most controversial among critics and most divisive among listeners. Since Sony started reissuing complete session box sets (2001's In a Silent Way, 1998's Bitches Brew, 2003's Jack Johnson), however, reassessment and reconsideration have helped to broaden the respect and enjoyment of the originals. By the time of 2007's Complete On ...
Cuong Vu: More Than Just Notes
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Truculent blasts of white noise kissed with delay. Ghostly whispers evolving to plaintive cries. Soaring melodies comprised of bold, rounded notes. Trumpeter Cuong Vu's vast sonic palette was formed with intense dedication and by choosing nonconformist paths.After moving to New York in 1994, his sound quickly found a home with veterans like drummer Gerry ...
Planet Safety: Planet Safety
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Bob Gullotti, Leo Genovese and Dave Zinno really know how to end their pieces. This may seem incidental or, in any case, not a heavy matter. But it is, especially when you contrast it to the way many jazz musicians end their pieces, if they do at all. Too often, pieces are ended rather than left ...
Steve Harris Zaum: I hope you never love anything as much as I love you
by Kurt Gottschalk
With a background in jazz, improv, funk, rock and rhythm and blues it makes sense that Steve Harris' music didn't come off sounding like any one thing. The drummer, who died in January, 2008 at the age of 59, may have been as known for his efforts close to home as his recordings--he worked as Music ...
Greg Burk Quartet: Berlin Bright
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Pianist Greg Burk embraces deconstruction and counterpoint as a player and composer, so a playful method to the madness runs through his excellent new album Berlin Bright. The opener, “Fancy Pants," exemplifies how Burk solos and writes with mild chaos in mind. After the theme the tune fractures schizophrenically, with Ignaz Dinne soaring melodically up front ...
Jazz Sessions: The Greats on Camera at Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville NY
Thursday nights from May 29 to June 19, the Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) in Pleasantville NY will be screening films that capture some of Jazz's biggest names on camera. Q&As hosted by Grammy Award-winning bassist Todd Coolman. Coolman is head of Jazz Studies at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College and has performed or ...
Jarrett hits 25, a Hipp aunt, $2 pirates, Germany in Harlem and cozy Paris clubs
by Fradley Garner
Twenty-five years ago this January, pianist Keith Jarrett formed his trio with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette. They recorded “The Masquerade Is Over" without rehearsal or any arrangement. Who could know this partnership would survive for a quarter century? To celebrate this, the German ECM label has released My Foolish Heart, a CD box ...
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