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Kirk Knuffke Quartet: Bigwig
by Martin Longley
Trumpeter Kirk Knuffke has been living in Brooklyn for three years, originally hailing from Denver. Once arriving, he set about forming a trio, but then met up with trombonist Brian Drye and wisely decided to expand into quartet form. The combo's lineup is completed by bassist Reuben Radding and drummer Jeff Davis. As a debut disc ...
Matthew Shipp: Multiplication Table, Abbey Road Duos, Un Piano & Cosmic Suite
by Kurt Gottschalk
Matthew Shipp Multiplication Table hatOLOGY 2008 Evan Parker / Matthew Shipp Abbey Road Duos Treader 2007 Matthew Shipp Un Piano RogueArt 2008 Matthew Shipp ...
Taylor Ho Bynum: Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths
by Robert Iannapollo
Since he started teaching at Wesleyan University in the '90s, Anthony Braxton has found a large number of players who have embraced his compositional and improvisational ideas. Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum has been among the most active in Braxton's galaxy. Bynum has also been directing a large array of his own ensembles; of those, his sextet ...
Paolo Angeli / Evan Parker / Ned Rothenberg: Free Zone Appleby 2007
by Martin Longley
Free Zone is a festival within a festival, holding a regular spot at the more mainstream-inclined Appleby weekender in England. Due to the dreaded specter of funding difficulties there was no 2008 event and the festival's future may well be doomed. Customarily, the Free Zone program features a large roster of players, improvising in many permutations, ...
Jazzwerkstatt
by A. Henkin
In September in Berlin, an ambitious new jazz festival, A European Jazz Jamboree, took over several venues in the city with a wide-ranging program that according to its organizers is an art concept in itself: it displays the whole range of the current European jazz scene, from free jazz to traditional modern jazz, and a jazz ...
Live in '58
by Ken Dryden
Lionel Hampton Jazz Icons: Live in '58 Naxos Jazz 2008 Lionel Hampton was one of the incomparable showmen in jazz, especially when leading an always-swinging big band. This 1958 concert, filmed by Belgium public television at the Royal Theatre Opera House, finds him in peak form.Many ...
Lisa Hearns: I Got it Bad & That Ain't Good
by Greg Thomas
A key aspect of the art of jazz singing is the ability to interpret lyrics with musical depth grounded in improvisation and blues resonance. I Got it Bad & That Ain't Good is a good example of traditional jazz singing, a genre few perform very well these days. Hearns is blessed with a ...
Hot Club of Detroit: Night Town
by Ken Dryden
The Hot Club of Detroit is one of many bands that have been inspired by the work of Django Reinhardt with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, though leader and guitarist Evan Perri's group omits the violin, instead utilizing accordion and saxophone. Yet the band's second CD doesn't exclusively stick to Gypsy jazz and ...
Jackie Ryan: You and the Night and the Music
by Joel Roberts
San Francisco-based chanteuse Jackie Ryan has a smoky contralto, an impressively wide vocal range and an actress' flair for delivering dramatic lyrics. That adds up to a winning combination on this collection of love songs. Backed by a top-notch trio of Los Angeles musicians, Ryan delivers straight-ahead performances of 14 mostly familiar romantic ...
Will Sellenraad @ Smalls NYC, Featuring Kiyoshi Kitagawa & Darren Beckett
Will Sellenraad Trio Will Sellenraad- guitar Kiyoshi Kitagawa- bass Darren Beckett- drums Saturday November 15th · 7:30pm–10:00pm Smalls Jazz Club – 183 w. 10th St. @ 7th Ave. NYC About Will Sellenraad Hailed as a “hidden gem,” Willem Sellenraad has earned a ...
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