Home » Search Center » Results: New York

Results for "New York"

160

Article: Album Review

Tippett/Grew/Riley/Thomas: Pianoforte

by A. Henkin
May 13, 2005

The impetus for this album came from a meeting between pianists Stephen Grew and Keith Tippett at a London club. What resulted was a live concert from 2003 documenting a piano recital that included Grew, Tippett, Pat Thomas, and Howard Riley. The format of the album is straightfoward, if the music is far from ...

125

Article: Book Review

The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora

by AAJ Staff
May 12, 2005

Irwin Chusid, Jim Flora The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora Fantagraphics Books 2004 ISBN: 1560976004 Back in the day when album covers had an impact on music-buying decisions and didn't require a magnifying glass, Jim Flora, as described by this book's author, “wreaked havoc with the laws of ...

129

Article: Album Review

Tessa Souter: Listen Love

Read "Listen Love" reviewed by Donald Elfman

by Donald Elfman
May 12, 2005

How nice to hear a sophisticated singer who so completely respects the melody, the lyrics, and the moment. Tessa Souter contributes much to the evolution of the songs she chooses to perform--she finds ways through phrase, paraphrase, and instrumental accompaniment to add rich new color. Like Norma Winstone--whose lyrics for Jimmy Rowles' “The Peacocks she uses ...

222

Article: Album Review

Dave Holland Big Band: Overtime

by Russ Musto
May 12, 2005

Overtime, the second release from the Dave Holland Big Band, is another impressive work by the Grammy-winning large ensemble. Assembled around the legendary bassist's working quintet, the thirteen-piece unit explores the greater harmonic implications of the leader's creative compositions, without sacrificing the special rhythmic character the smaller group possesses. Built from the bottom up upon the ...

175

Article: Album Review

Carlos Patato Valdes: El Hombre

by Russ Musto
May 12, 2005

Carlos Patato Valdes is arguably the most melodic of all congueros. The inventor of the tuned conga drum, he sings on his instrument like no other percussionist, so it comes as no surprise that this delightful date consists of some particularly lyrical Latin jazz. Leading an ensemble that features flutist Oriente Lopez (star of Charlie Haden's ...

323

Article: Live Review

David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness at Joe's Pub in NYC

by Elliott Simon
May 11, 2005

Ten years ago, clarinetist David Krakauer recorded Klezmer Madness!, the first release for John Zorn's groundbreaking Tzadik: Radical Jewish Culture Series. Since that time, Krakauer has remained true to his soul while continuing to expand the definitional boundaries of his music. A stylist who combines impeccable technique and prodigious chops with distinctive fingerings, overblows and circular ...

172

Article: Multiple Reviews

Carnival & Strange Fruit

by Ken Franckling
May 11, 2005

The New Orleans trumpet lineage keeps getting longer and in some ways, stronger. What started with Buddy Bolden and Louis Armstrong has in more recent decades brought us the likes of Wendell Brunious, Wynton Marsalis, Nicholas Payton, Leon “Kid Chocolate Brown and Irvin Mayfield. Los Hombres Calientes Carnival Basin Street Records

178

Article: Multiple Reviews

Leaves of Grass & Mystic Trumpeter

by Andrew Rowan
May 11, 2005

Fred Hersch Leaves of Grass Palmetto 2005 In Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, the poet of democracy, sought to express the still-young nation's ideals. Fred Hersch has realized his dream to pay homage to the poet by crafting an intelligent and, often, moving account of carefully selected excerpts from Whitman's ...

305

Article: Album Review

Ravish Momin: Climbing the Banyan Tree

Read "Climbing the Banyan Tree" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen
May 11, 2005

For his second date as a leader in five years, drummer Ravish Momin has assembled a trio with a truly diverse range of interests and a value expanding on much of the Afro-Asian influence that has entered the jazz canon. Late of Kalaparush and The Light and the groups of reedman Sabir Mateen, Momin studied tabla ...

286

Article: Album Review

Kurt Rosenwinkel: Deep Song

Read "Deep Song" reviewed by David Adler

by David Adler
May 11, 2005

Kurt Rosenwinkel's fourth Verve release, Deep Song, steps back from the searching electronica of Heartcore and adheres to a jazz quintet aesthetic. For the first time, Joshua Redman appears in place of Rosenwinkel's longtime tenor sax associate, Mark Turner. We also hear Brad Mehldau on piano, Larry Grenadier on bass, and Jeff Ballard and Ali Jackson ...