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Blue Apple Blues (B.A.B.) Festival Poised to Crash the Mansion in Downtown Manhattan on April 3rd
The Big Apple, a long ways from the Mississippi delta, is not often associated with the blues. But the city is home to a number of blues bands that bring a fresh approach to traditional blues The Blue Apple Blues (B.A.B.) Festival aims to crash beyond tried and true formulas by offering the blues scene fresh ...
Sten Hostfalt, Melissa Kassel & Matt Renzi at Abc No Rio NYC March 16
LIVE IN CONCERT sunday MARCH 16 2008 at 8 pm / $7 at ABC NO RIO, NEW YORK CITY STEN HOSTFALT - guitar MELISSA KASSEL - voice MATT RENZI - saxophones and clarinets “Melissa Kassel is among the ...
SFJAZZ Collective: Live at Jazz a Vienne
by Russ Musto
SFJazz CollectiveLive at Jazz à VienneSFJazz2008 The SFJazz Collective is arguably the most perfectly conceived formation ever to deal with the seemingly contradictory forces in jazz of tradition versus innovation and composition versus improvisation. The DVD Live At Jazz à Vienne, recorded in France during the band's 2007 ...
William Parker: Blue Shadows & The Last Dances
by Kurt Gottschalk
Charles Gayle Blue Shadows Silkheart 2007 Hamid Drake/Anders Gahnold/William Parker The Last Dances Ayler 2007 Over the last decade (this year marks the 10th anniversary of his brilliant Peach ...
Joelle Leandre
by Kurt Gottschalk
Joelle Leandre has a huge voice. Not just a formidable singing voice, which can be friendly and frightening, charming and vulgar. And not only on her instrument which can be firmly grounded one moment and soar the next. Leandre's voice unabashedly carries conversation, carries it to unexpected places, making quick turns, never slowing down or backing ...
Steve Kuhn Steve Swallow: Two by 2
by Stuart Broomer
Few musicians possess anything like the lyrical capacity of Steve Kuhn and Steve Swallow, whether as composers or performers and this album of duets recorded in 1995 achieves an ideal of empathy. With the compositions roughly divided between the two, there's as much emphasis on the construction of durable melodic material as spontaneous interaction.
Andrew Sterman: The Path To Peace
by Elliott Simon
Set against a sparse percussive backdrop, long bluesy notes come from saxophonist Andrew Sterman's tenor and harmonize with Todd Reynolds' emotive violin for the “Opening" of The Path To Peace. For this concept album that presents original music motivated by Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual path, Sterman has taken on the difficult task of musically representing not only ...
Bobby Gordon: Bobby Gordon Plays Joe Marsala: Lower Register
by Ernest Barteldes
The first impression one gets when listening to this well-crafted tribute to the 100th birthday of Joe Marsala (and available now, thirty years after his death) is the feeling of having been transported to the past, albeit with clear digital technology. The CD is traditional jazz at its best with none of the hiss so common ...
Playing The Changes: Milt Hinton's Life In Stories And Photographs
by AAJ Staff
Playing The Changes: Milt Hinton's Life In Stories And Photographs Milt Hinton, David G. Berger and Holly Maxson Hardcover; 364 pages ISBN: 0826515746 Vanderbilt University Press 2008 Perhaps no one captured jazz in as much of its candid glory as bassist Milt Hinton, who seemed to ...
Elliott Sharp: pi:k (2004/5) & Breaking News
by Kurt Gottschalk
Elliott Sharp/Charlotte Hug pi:k (2004/5) Emanem 2007 Simone Massaron Breaking News Long Song 2007 For two relatively similar instruments, the guitar and the viola have very different sounds. At ...
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