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Kronos Quartet, Jessica Pavone, Futurist Noise Intoners & The Tori Ensemble
by Martin Longley
Kronos Quartet/Wu Man Carnegie Hall November 3, 2009 Although not officially part of Carnegie Hall's spectacular Ancient Paths, Modern Voices season of Chinese culture, this concert was certainly well-timed to sit beside its less innovative brethren. Perhaps the program's decidedly non-traditional stance was the main reason. Also, the Kronos collaboration with pipa player ...
Gerry Hemingway: Songs
by Martin Longley
When drummer Gerry Hemingway decides to pursue a song-based project, the only predictable outcome is that it will be unpredictable. His approach to composition includes elements of rock, electronica, minimalism and Broadway intimacy, yet can't be deemed any of these things. As well as the music, Hemingway has also penned the words. His chosen voice is ...
Garrison Fewell: Variable Density Sound Orchestra
by Lyn Horton
For the descriptively-titled Variable Density Sound Orchestra, guitarist Garrison Fewell has assembled a group whose members expertly develop the thematic content central to the pieces on the album. All but one are composed by Fewell, the disc closing with Butch Morris' “Namthini's Shadow." Trumpeter Roy Campbell, Jr. plays with Fewell for the first time here, the ...
Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk
by Chris Kompanek
The remastered Monk is actually two mini-sets melded into one with the first quintet consisting of the underrated trumpeter Ray Copeland, tenor saxophonist Frank Foster and bassist Curly Russell, with the legendary Art Blakey holding it all together on drums. These first four tracks (including a beautiful rendition of the Jerome Kern classic “Smoke Gets in ...
The Jazz Session #120: Sam Rivers
Sam Rivers is a musical renaissance man. Hes performed in big bands, bop bands, R&B groups, blues bands and free-jazz ensembles. Rivers is currently composing adventurous large-ensemble music (such as is found on his 2006 CD Aurora) in an unlikely location: Orlando, Florida. In this interview, Rivers talks about his early days in Boston; how he ...
Tim Kuhl's - A Winter's Night of Music (12.14.09) + More ..
Hello AAJ Readers! I've put together a night music coming up Monday December 14th at Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn, NY. The night features a stellar lineup of musicians, original music and sound... 9pm: Tim Kuhl's “Pandora's Box" Jonathan Moritz - Saxophones Frantz Loriot ...
Jazz Collectibles Show in New York on January 9th
Jazz Collectibles Show LPs (33 1/3 rpm), 45rpm, 78rpm, sheet music, photos, posters, books, magazines, etc. Saturday, January 9th 10am to 2pm Tip Top Shoe Building 155 West 72nd Street, 4th Floor New York, NY (near Broadway). Subway Nos. 1, 2 or 3 to 72nd Street. Bus Nos. 104, 7 ...
First Jeff Beck Show Sells out - Second Show Added on June 18!!! Tickets on Sale Friday 10 A.M.
Rochester, NY December 7, 2009 Due to a sell-out of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival's Jeff Beck concert June 18, 2010 at 8 p.m., producers John Nugent and Marc Iacona announced today that they are adding a second performance on Friday June 18 at 11 p.m. Both concerts will be in Eastman Theatre's Kodak Hall. ...
The Jazz Session #119: Dom Minasi
Guitarist Dom Minasis most recent recording, Dissonance Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (Konnex, 2009), features his string quartet in a program of adventurous composition and improvisation. In this interview, Minasi talks about how he spent the 20 years between his last Blue Note recording and his re-emergence as a leader; why Johnny Smith was a big ...
The Jazz Session #118: Luis Bonilla
Luis Bonilla blends humor, adventurousness and a passion for his family on his new CD, I Talking Now (Planet Arts, 2009). In this interview, the in-demand trombonist talks about the use of humor in music; the effect of his time with Lester Bowie; and how thinking beginning brass was a shop class led to his life ...
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