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Heath Brothers: Endurance
by Joel Roberts
Endurance is a fitting word to describe Jimmy and Albert “Tootie" Heath, the veteran mainstreamers whose new release is their first since the death of their brother Percy four years ago. Jimmy Heath, who just celebrated his 83rd birthday, remains a titan on the tenor saxophone (and occasionally the soprano), playing with the relaxed ...
Dave Allen Quartet at Nublu Jazz Festival (NYC) on November 13th
Dave Allen Quartet @ Nublu Jazz Festival Friday November 13th one set at 9pm Drew Gress - bass Tom Rainey - drums John O'Gallagher - sax Dave Allen - Guitar Nublu is 62 Ave C btwn 4th and ...
Paul Motian: On Broadway Vol. 5
by Brandt Reiter
The brushes are out as drummer Paul Motian continues his ongoing disc series, On Broadway. This latest installment features Motian's less starry “2000" trio, with bassist Thomas Morgan and saxophonist Loren Stillman, plus a second saxophonist, Michaël Attias and pianist Masabumi Kikuchi (who also participated on Vol. 4). Two decades on, the recipe remains the same--loving, ...
Harry Allen-Joe Cohen Quartet with Rebecca Kilgore and Eddie Erickson: The Harry Allen-Joe Cohn Quartet Plays Music From South Pacific
by Andrew Velez
The days when recordings were routinely issued covering a current Broadway hit musical are long past. Fortunately no one told that to Arbors Records. With Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific enjoying a smash revival, here comes the Harry Allen/Joe Cohn Quartet and vocalists Rebecca Kilgore and Eddie Erickson with innovative, knockout performances of one of the ...
The Jazz Session #107: Kat Edmonson
Kat Edmonson is making a name for herself as both a smart interpreter of popular songs (both old and new) and as a musician who puts her values into practice in her art. Edmonson's debut CD, Take To The Sky (Convivium Records, 2009) features creative reworkings of tunes by Carol King, The Cure and The Cardigans, ...
Sex Mob: Sexmob Meets Medeski live in Willisau 2006
by Brandt Reiter
How best to describe slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein's singular quartet Sex Mob? Maybe we should start with mercurial musical magician Bernstein himself, whose exotic career as sideman, musical director, arranger and composer has included ten years with John Lurie's Lounge Lizards and stints alongside everyone from Bill Frisell to Sam Rivers, the Flying Karamazov Brothers and, ...
Daryl Sherman: Johnny Mercer A Centennial Tribute
by Andrew Velez
Choosing “I'm Shadowing You" as the opener on Daryl Sherman's fine Centennial Tribute to composer and lyricist Johnny Mercer inevitably recalls Blossom Dearie. Heretofore that tune has pretty much been the exclusive property of the late vocalist. There are also other, more than passing, resemblances between the two singers, both first-class self-accompanists on piano possessing underage ...
Live Big Bands From New York: Charles Tolliver, Darcy James Argue & Charli Persip
by Martin Longley
The Charles Tolliver Big BandIridiumOctober 18, 2009 Trumpeter Charles Tolliver likes to keep his big band well-drilled. His arrangements are concerned with a cutting, eagle-swoop precision, built up from portable clusters that can be detonated at any time. He enjoys settling into a sleek groove, but will suddenly find the urge ...
Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946)
by AAJ Staff
Louis Armstrong The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946) Mosaic Records 2009 Presumably everyone knows that Louis Armstrong's greatest and most important work was done in the '20s with and around the time of the incredible Hot Five and Hot Seven sessions. During the Swing Era he led ...
November 2009
by AAJ Staff
Muhal Richard Abrams and Fred AndersonCommunity Church of New YorkNew York, NY October 16, 2009Muhal Richard Abrams and Fred Anderson are not quite of the same island. The same Chicago archipelago, sure, but Anderson has more hovered around than been an active member of the Association for the Advancement of ...
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