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Marshall Allen's Muse
by Clifford Allen
Born May 25, 1924 in Louisville, KY, alto saxophonist Marshall Allen has been as much an institution of the Arkestra as Sun Ra himself. Joining the band in 1958 in Chicago, Allen became part of the most important saxophone section since Ellington's--for along with John Gilmore and Pat Patrick, Allen and the Arkestra offered an entirely ...
Maria Schneider: Concert in the Garden
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Lush harmonies evoking a sense of romance and dynamic rhythms alluding to dance abound on composer/arranger Maria Schneider's Concert in the Garden. She assuredly guides her 17-piece band through cinematic compositions that would feel at home in a Golden Age Hollywood epic. Schneider is more interested in exploring the melodic, harmonic and textural possibilities the instrumentation ...
Frank Morgan: City Nights
by Florence Wetzel
Jazz careers are predictably unpredictable. Some musicians shine young, some are late bloomers, and others maintain a steady flame for decades. Then there's that intriguing handful who come back after years of obscurity; contemporary examples include Henry Grimes, Sonny Simmons, and alto saxophonist Frank Morgan. Born in 1930, Morgan was fortunate to be part of the ...
Russ Lossing: As It Grows
by Ty Cumbie
Spacious, articulate, and artfully composed, the material heard on Russ Lossing's As It Grows --apparently some of it improvised and some composed--is consistently musical and satisfyingly rangy. Although there's a persistent strain of finespun moodiness that isn't for seekers of the heavy groove, there's enough heart-stopping beauty on this disc to make you forget, momentarily, that ...
Scott Hamilton and Harry Allen: Heavy Juice
by Ken Franckling
Heavy Juice has been waiting to happen for twenty years. Back then, teenager Harry Allen, still in high school, joined Scott Hamilton on stage at the Newport Jazz Festival for a cameo performance with the George Wein-led Newport All-Stars. Allen spent his formative years growing up in Rhode Island, which also claims Hamilton as a native ...
Dave Stryker: Rides Again & Shades Beyond
by Elliott Simon
Each built around a different celebrated drummer, these follow-ups from guitarist Dave Stryker maintain his partnership with saxophonist Steve Slagle and portray two sides of this many faceted player. Trio Mundo, created to underscore the potent percussive power of Manolo Badrena, definitely Rides Again while Shades Beyond continues Stryker's personal exploration of electric Miles Davis with ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall
by Russ Musto
When Jazz at Lincoln Center opens the doors to the Frederick P. Rose Hall this month it will welcome the jazz community to an impressive state of the art facility representing the greatest commitment of resources, both human and financial, to the presentation and preservation of the art of jazz in the music's hundred-year-old history. Located ...
Gebhard Ullmann
by Kurt Gottschalk
Gebhard Ullmann is a study in counterpoint. He is a composer of scores fluctuating from trio to tentet, building metered music without rhythm sections and has long called both New York and Berlin his homes, finding inspiration in each city. He has used rock listening and classical training as an inspiration for his jazz work, and ...
Jeff Marx: Treading Air, Breathing Fire
by Celeste Sunderland
An album becomes an extraordinary work when it features playing that ventures beyond a category of art created simply to tickle the senses. Tenor saxophonist Jeff Marx' second album, Treading Air Breathing Fire , ponders metaphysical relations on an immense scale. Most of the content takes the form of passionate dialogue between the four ...
Allison Miller: 5 am Stroll
by Ken Franckling
Allison Miller has been a busy member of the New York jazz scene for the past eight years, touring and/or recording with notable leaders from jazz as well as folk and pop music worlds, including Marty Ehrlich, Kitty Margolis, and Natalie Merchant. After some thirty recordings under her belt as a sidewoman, 5 am ...
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