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Magic Numbers / The Distance
by Ty Cumbie
A new pair of releases teams New York edge-cutters with their north-of-the-border counterparts. Quinsin Nachoff Magic Numbers Songlines 2006 Toronto-based reed player Quinsin Nachoff has one foot in jazz performance and the other in classical composition. While this combination can sometimes lead to a musical no-man's ...
4inObjects / Bright
by Ty Cumbie
4inObjects 4inObjects Yeah Yeah 2006 4inObjects' debut recording introduces a full-bodied new voice in jazz singing, backed up by a superb band studded with some of the most talented players to be found anywhere. Yoon Sun Choi's singing is strong and direct. She has good ...
Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
For about the last fifteen years, drummer Paul Motian has explored the possibilities of two guitars, two saxophones, bass and drums with his Electric Bebop Band. Always drawing from a revolving cast of younger, emergent musicians, he augments the lineup with another guitar on Garden of Eden. Though a septet with this instrumentation ...
Erik Friedlander: Prowl
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
One of the most highly regarded cellists in today's creative improvised music scene, Erik Friedlander has been integral to projects led by saxophonist John Zorn, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and a host of others. But his prolific yield as a sideman has at times overshadowed his own work. Prowl, a testament to Friedlander's talents as a composer ...
Rev-elation / I Can't Give You Anything But Love
by Russ Musto
Joe Locke Rev-elation Sharp Nine2005 Few tribute albums released these days do justice to the music of the honoree, or the artistry of the player acknowledging the influence of the venerated figure, on the high level that Joe Locke reaches on Rev-elation, easily one of the hardest swinging ...
March 2006
by AAJ Staff
At the Blue Note (Feb. 3rd), pianist Kenny Werner led a quintet called Cosmocentric, with Kenny Wheeler on trumpet, David Sanchez on tenor, Scott Colley on bass and Antonio Sanchez (in for Brian Blade) on drums. It must be said that Wheeler, now 76, was not firing on all cylinders - at least not this set. ...
Paul Bollenback: Brightness of Being
by Ernest Barteldes
Jazz guitar fans will not be disappointed by Brightness of Being, an offering of rich harmonics and octave-based solos in a collection of originals, covers of Stevie Wonder and Neil Young, adaptations from Puccini and Garcia de Leon, and a couple of songs immortalized by Ray Charles. The original “Together finds Bollenback on ...
Robert Glasper: Canvas
by Abe Pollack
Many young jazz musicians are no strangers to pop music. More familiar with Radiohead's Kid A and Public Enemy than Jerome Kern or Cole Porter, they have become increasingly more adventurous in an attempt to make jazz a commodity for the 21st Century. Unlike glossy pop covers from the '80s, Robert Glasper uses subtlety to explore ...
Gerald Wilson: In His Time
by Rex Butters
At 87, Gerald Wilson casts a long shadow over the history of jazz. His new collection In My Time sizzles with power and joy, as a New York allstar ensemble ignites his dazzling arrangements. His musical associations and friendships catalogue some of the best musicians of the last 60 years: Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, ...
Matt Steckler: Persiflage
by Donald Elfman
The dictionary defines “persiflage as “light bantering talk or “a frivolous style of treating a subject. Saxophonist/flutist Matt Steckler's compositional style can seem slangy and almost casual, but repeated listens reveal a depth of color, a true sense of shape, and a brilliant mix of the improvisational and the written.For Persiflage Steckler has found ...
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