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Nik Bartsch's Ronin at Joe's Pub, NYC
by Budd Kopman
Nik Bartsch's Ronin at Joe's Pub, NYCJoe's PubNew York City, New YorkMarch 5, 2008 Simple complexity, complex simplicity; intellectual control, emotional abandon; individual details, organic wholeness; deep, deep bottom, floating highs; irresistible funky groove, phase-shifting rhythmic interaction; dramatic storytelling, propulsive drive; just a band, an artistic entity. ...
Cellos: Erik Friedlander & Rufus Cappadocia
by Donald Elfman
Erik Friedlander Volac Tzadik 2008 Rufus Cappadocia Songs for Cello Velour 2008 “The cello is the most perfect instrument aside from the human voice." --Zuill Bailey
Lonnie Gasperini Organ Trio: North Beach Blues
by Elliott Simon
The Hammond B3 was originally developed to replace pipe organs and luckily for B3 jazz trio lovers it caught on as a less expensive alternative for African- American churches. Its power chords and subtle note caresses, built-in bass pedals and funky sound when combined with a guitarist and drummer eventually spawned the soul jazz genre. From ...
Bobby Sanabria: Big Band Urban Folktales
by Martin Longley
Born in the Bronx and hailing from a Puerto Rican background, percussionist Bobby Sanabria has mastered every conceivable form of AfroLatin music, from New York salsa to Cuban son and even down to Brazilian samba. This album comes across as a demonstration record for everything that he and his thrilling big band can accomplish.
Joe McPhee: A Legend In Heavy Company
by Clifford Allen
Forty-one years after beginning his recording career on the day after John Coltrane's funeral in sessions led by trombonist Clifford Thornton (Freedom & Unity, Third World, 1967), saxophonist and trumpeter Joe McPhee is indeed the yeoman legend of the modern jazz-world. For many years a factory worker and sometime professor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New ...
Adam Lane: Buffalo & Four Corners
by Marc Medwin
Adam Lane Buffalo CIMP 2007 Magnus Broo / Adam Lane / Paal Nilssen-Love / Ken Vandermark 4 Corners Clean Feed 2007 These two recent releases prove, if further proof ...
Clifford Jordan: Glass Bead Games
by Robert Iannapollo
Perennially underrated saxophonist Clifford Jordan recorded two of his best albums for the Strata East label and Glass Bead Games is arguably his greatest recording and one of the great albums of the 1970s. Everything is right about this date; Jordan never sounded so good, his tone rich and full, his improvisatory ideas taking the models ...
Joe Giglio & Jimmy Halperin: Sound Scape
by Elliott Simon
Guitarist Joe Giglio and saxophonist Jimmy Halperin are part of the current, albeit small, group of musicians that are keeping pianist Lennie Tristano's singular approach to improvisation alive. Halperin studied with Tristano and both musicians had a long association with pianist and Tristano pupil Sal Mosca. Sound Scape is an effective meeting that intimately documents the ...
Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette: My Foolish Heart
by Joel Roberts
Listeners have come to expect several things from the trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette in the 25 years that the group's been engaged in its extended modernist exploration of the Great American Songbook: remarkable musicianship, extreme seriousness and a fairly predictable repertoire. That's what makes the trio's 18th release ...
Joe Chambers & His "Outlaw Band" at the Lenox Lounge
The Lenox Lounge, the Uptown haven for Jazz located @ 288 Lenox Avenue (124th & 125th St.) is proud to present a World renowned Composer, Arranger, Educator, a 'Percussionists Percussionist', who is one of the most recorded Drummers ever, on the “Blue Note" Record Label. The recordings he made, with the likes of Wayne Shorter, Freddie ...
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