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Mahavishnu Project: Phase 2
by A. Henkin
Mahavishnu Project Phase Two Aggregate Music Being a Mahavishnu Orchestra (MO) cover band is a vastly different undertaking than playing the music of, say, Led Zeppelin or the Grateful Dead. By and large, those who would come to see a band like this (sticking to the first and only worthwhile incarnation) are ...
Various: Morton Feldman Jazz Tributes
by AAJ Staff
Though Morton Feldman's early concerts were commonly shared with such experimental classical composers as John Cage and Earle Brown, Feldman (1926-87) would also go hear jazz at the Five Spot and Jazz Gallery. Much of his spaciously composed works for solo instruments and small groups actually provide a foundation for fascinating jazz renditions, and it's a ...
The George Gee Big Band: Settin' the Pace
by Elliott Simon
Although they're not typically household names, a strong case can be made that no single group has had more of an influence on the sound of American music than arrangers. One thing that can't be disputed though, is that the arranger is front and center when it comes to big band swing. A first-person participatory tribute ...
Kate McGarry: Mercy Streets
by Brian P. Lonergan
Singer Kate McGarry has made a beautiful album with Mercy Streets, though the music is not easily pigeonholed in any category of jazz. The largely acoustic album, with landscapes created by McGarry's vocals and guitar-based arrangements, follows in the genre-defying path cleared in recent years by Cassandra Wilson and Marvin Sewell's work together. To ...
Mario Pavone: Boom
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Bassist/composer Mario Pavone split his previous CD between trio and quintet groupings. On Boom he takes the mean, leading an adventurous quartet with longtime collaborator pianist Peter Madsen, omnipresent drummer Matt Wilson, and the industrious Tony Malaby, Pavone's most recent saxophone foil. The quartet deftly navigates Pavone's charts with tightly knit, rhythmically charged ensemble heads and ...
Shirim: Pincus and the Pig
by Elliott Simon
Complete with sticker sheet and illustrated story book, Pincus and the Pig is a joyfully Jewish take on every child's introduction to the symphony orchestra and its instruments. It also serves here as an apt family entrée to the wonderful catalogue of the Boston based klezmer ensemble Shirim. At the forefront of the musical evolution that ...
Adam Makowicz and Leszek Mozdzer: Makowicz vs. Mozdzer at Carnegie Hall
by Joel Roberts
Adam Makowicz has such phenomenal technique at the keyboard that it sometimes sounds as if he's playing with four hands. On his latest album there really are four hands at work, though two of them belong to fellow Polish piano sensation Leszek Mozdzer. Their solo and duet excursions on Chopin and popular standards, recorded live at ...
New York United: If I Could Make A Wish
by Elliott Simon
For some time now, Brooklyn's jazz scene has been attractive to both musicians and patrons for its freedom, openness, intimacy, and honesty. Clubs like the Up Over Jazz Café, Sista's Place, and BAMCafé have fostered an atmosphere where the music comes first. The quartet behind If I Could Make a Wish celebrates this environment as it ...
Tanya Kalmanovitch Hut Five: Out Where the Trains Don't Run
by AAJ Staff
How ridiculous that with the deep pool of talented jazz violinists, many best-of lists lump them into the nonspecific “Best String Player category? With Leroy Jenkins, Billy Bang, Mark Feldman, Jenny Scheinman, Carla Kihlstedt, Regina Carter, and most recently Tanya Kalmanovitch (selected as an AAJ-NY “Best New Talent of 2004) -- it would be a challenge ...
Kakalla: The Seeds of Analog Rebellion
by Florence Wetzel
The Seeds of Analog Rebellion is the outstanding new CD by Kakalla, a Massachusetts-based quartet that successfully blends jazz and electronics. And not only: Kakalla's influences include traditional and modern Bulgarian music, Greek rembetika, Albanian folk music, and rock n' roll. Kakalla incorporates these apparently disparate genres into music that's thoroughly original and genuinely exciting.
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