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Tin Hat Trio: Book of Silk
by Kurt Gottschalk
The Tin Hat Trio has made itself a supergroup of sorts, with Willie Nelson and Tom Waits guesting on its recordings and with a variety of individual projects outside the band. Carla Kihlstedt and Rob Burger have both released discs on John Zorn's Tzadik label, Kihlstedt is also a member of the avant rock outfit Sleepytime ...
The Hanuman Sextet: Confusing the Devil
by Florence Wetzel
Confusing the Devil is the excellent debut CD from the Hanuman Sextet, six Downtown musicians on the front lines of reinventing music. The Sextet is composed of Andy Haas on shofar, raita (Moroccan oboe), sax and electronics; Don Fiorino on banjo, lotar (Moroccan lute) and lap steel guitar; Mia Theodoratus on electric harp; Matt Heyner on ...
Chris Potter Quartet: Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard
by Jeff Stockton
Just as you're about to really get into tenor saxophonist Chris Potter's funky unaccompanied solo on “7.5," the rest of the band charges in, led by Kevin Hays on an electric keyboard sounding like a ringing cell phone. It grabs your attention, and the band doesn't let go for the next fifteen minutes, with Hays soloing ...
McCoy Tyner: Illuminations
by Joel Roberts
McCoy Tyner's latest, Illuminations, shows that at 65, the iconic pianist is still a force to be reckoned with, still an artist looking for new challenges--even if it the terrain he covers here is more traditional than some of his past explorations. Tyner leads a truly all-star quintet (trumpeter Terence Blanchard, saxophonist Gary ...
Coleman Hawkins: The Centennial Collection
by Joel Roberts
Though it won't get the attention of the recent Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong centennials, the 100th anniversary of Coleman Hawkins' birth, coming up on November 21, certainly warrants celebration from jazz fans. Dubbed the “father of the tenor saxophone," Hawkins was a vital force on the jazz scene for five decades, moving through the swing ...
Giacomo Gates: Centerpiece
by Elliott Simon
A product of vocally imitating complex bop solos, vocalese grew into a respectable singular art form under its most famous practitioners, King Pleasure and Eddie Jefferson. On the swinging Centerpiece , Giacomo Gates uses these two giants as touchstones and makes the genre his own. In addition to his deep, rich tonal quality, Gates' ...
Kit McClure Band: The Sweethearts Project
by Elliott Simon
An historically accurate portrayal, The Sweethearts Project is a tribute to the all-woman big band known as the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, which kept the home front swinging during WWII. Using seventeen of her peers and former Sweethearts vocalist Carline Ray, bandleader and tenor saxophonist Kit McClure has produced a modern showcase for the finest contemporary ...
Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts: Wake Up! (To What's Happening)
by Ken Franckling
"Arts & Crafts" is the perfect name for versatile drummer Matt Wilson's band for this session. For the music they make is indeed an art--and it involves much musical craft. And then there's the title of this, the band's second recording. A title like Wake Up! (To What's Happening) could lead one to guess that Wilson ...
October 2004
by AAJ Staff
“Blind to our faults, we're subject to love's compounded assaults!/Each failed union engraved on our mind, defines the future lovers we find/and duplicity severs the ties that bind... “ This is from the preamble to Geof Loomis' Boperetta, playing the first Tuesday of every month at the Nuyorican Poets Café. Involving seven actor/singers ...
Gotham's Big Bash: The New Opening of Jazz at Lincoln Center
by Nick Catalano
Perhaps the greatest gala in jazz history will occur this month with the opening of the new home for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Located in the new Time-Warner building in Columbus Circle (site of the old New York coliseum), the new jazz world capitol contains the first-ever facility specifically designed for the acoustics of jazz. The ...
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