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Leslie Pintchik: So Glad To Be Here
by Elliott Simon
Pianist Leslie Pintchik and her bassist/husband, Scott Hardy, have invited percussionist Satoshi Takeishi into their cozy fold for a distinctive staging of the traditional jazz piano trio. The recipe succeeds, surprisingly well at times, as Takeishi adds his singular voice to Pintchik's melodic playing on So Glad to Be Here. Although the Kern/Hammerstein opener, ...
Scott Robinson & the Emil Viklicky Trio: Summertime
by Jeff Stockton
Scott Robinson has been affected a bit by the Roland Kirk syndrome. His interest in and ability to play just about every saxophone ever invented--and some that haven't--has obscured his talent to listeners more comfortable with musicians that can be identified by a single instrument, in spite of being very active recently both as a leader ...
Ken Peplowski: Easy to Remember
by Elliott Simon
Ken Peplowski is perhaps the best of an albeit too short list of baby-boomer swing clarinetists. On Easy to Remember he adeptly doubles on tenor and fronts a quintet of four like-minded musicians who similarly value musicianship and melody. Pianist Ted Rosenthal and guitarist Joe Cohn share frontline duties, while bassist Joe Fitzgerald and drummer Jeff ...
Jimmy Smith: Retrospective
by Jeff Stockton
In over four hours of music spread across four discs, this collection demonstrates how Jimmy Smith revolutionized the Hammond B-3 as a jazz instrument of expressiveness and versatility, both as a sideman and as a leader. The usual Blue Note stars are here: Lou Donaldson's alto sax illuminates “Summertime" and cries the blues on “All Day ...
Nicholas Payton & Sonic Trance: Live in New York 1.24.04
by Jeff Stockton
On the surface, Nicholas Payton's Sonic Trance is a fusion band. The leader occasionally tricks out his horn with effects, pianist Scott Kinsey moves over to electric keyboard from time to time, and percussionist Daniel Sadownick does his best to establish an Agharta vibe on congas. But there is no electric guitar in Sonic Trance, and ...
Preservation Hall Jazz Band in Morristown, NJ
by Daniel Kassell
Quite by surprise The Preservation Hall Jazz Band sold out the restored Community Theatre on Morristown, New Jersey's historic South Street, December 3rd, 2004 with an evening billed as “Creole Christmas". Beginning with excerpts of a video documentary made for PBS television in 2000 the renowned Louis Armstrong told us that these guys and this ...
Stephanie Nakasian & Hod O'Brien: Visitors from Virginia
by Nick Catalano
Many years ago one of my writer friends put me on to a jazz singer who, he said, was terrific. I went to Zinno's (now defunct) in the Village and immediately saw that my friend certainly knew his singers. Stephanie Nakasian was raised in Bronxville N.Y. studying piano and violin while singing in church choirs and ...
Gary Bartz Ntu Troop: Harlem Bush Music
by AAJ Staff
Recordings like Gary Bartz' Harlem Bush Music are often lost to time and neglect. Because it addresses heady social issues (racism and war in this case), it is not an album for sipping wine or for just “chillin'." Just there, plenty of sales are lost to hipsters and trendsetters. Excluding this fickle crowd, though, it is ...
Best of 2004
by AAJ Staff
Winding down a memorable 2004, we at AAJ:NY would like to share some of what sticks out in our ears and minds from this past year in jazz. Not easy being an indie... The predominance and growth of independent labels continues. Kudos to the small in budget but immense in quality labels ...
Steven Bernstein: Diaspora Hollywood
by Celeste Sunderland
Picture a couple of Jewish grandpas sitting around cracking jokes. Now imagine a Hollywood starlet from the '50s sauntering into a dimly lit club and you've got Diaspora Hollywood , the third installment of trumpet player Steven Bernstein's Diaspora series on John Zorn's Tzadik label. An ode to pioneering geniuses like Franz Waxman and Max Steiner, ...
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