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Noah Preminger's "Before The Rain" Among Jazz Critics' Top CDs of 2011

January 14, 2012

The latest CD by the Noah Preminger Quartet, “Before The Rain" (Palmetto Records), has appeared on at least 11 best-jazz-CD lists for 2011 and has won a coveted spot on the Rhapsody Jazz Critics' Poll. The CD, which features the 25-year-old Preminger, a tenor saxophonist/composer, along with pianist Frank Kimbrough, bassist John Hébert and drummer Matt ...

Before The Rain

By Noah Preminger

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Where Or When; Quickening; Before The Rain; Abreaction; Until The Real Thing Comes Along; K; Toy Dance; November; Jamie.

Mark Corroto's Best Releases of 2011

by Mark Corroto
December 19, 2011

Every year, the task of picking the best releases seems to be quite an onerous assignment. This year was especially difficult because, of the four hundred or so discs I listened to, many kept resurfacing for more attention. As I write, I haven't yet spun the new (yes, new) releases by Albert Ayler (Stockholm, Berlin 1966 ...

Noah Preminger Quartet 10/23 at the Blue Note New York

October 20, 2011

The Noah Preminger Quartet will perform at the Blue Note New York on October 23, 2011. Appearing with Noah Preminger, a brilliant jazz tenor saxophonist, composer and Palmetto Records artist, will be pianist Dan Tepfer, bassist John Hébert, and drummer Colin Stranahan. For this Sunday jazz brunch engagement, there are 2 sets, at 12:30 PM and ...

Dana Lauren: New York, May 22, 2011

by Dan Bilawsky
June 5, 2011

Dana Lauren Metropolitan Room New York, NY May 22, 2011 Sunday night shows are a tough sell to the average music fan. Weekend gatherings, housework and Saturday evening soirees often take their toll and sour people from making their way out to hear live music on a Sunday evening, but diehard ...

The Jazz Session #258: Noah Preminger

April 19, 2011

Michael Feinberg: With Many Hands

by Wilbert Sostre
April 10, 2011

Bassist Michael Feinberg is a good example of the new breed of young jazz musicians equally comfortable playing a diversity of jazz styles. On With Many Hands, Feinberg's music goes from bebop to avant-garde, and from a ballad to a funky rhythm--sometimes in the same song--with amazing ease and conviction. Surely it all comes from Feinberg ...

New York's New Music And Arts Series M.A.K.

by AAJ Staff
April 3, 2011

New York City has a brilliant new arts foundation, and a related music series. Nikka Arts is a music and arts foundation, founded by New York singer and composer Lola Danza and her business partner JB, of aboptv.com. The organization aims to provide a space where musicians and artists can present their creative work, and also ...

Michael Feinberg: With Many Hands

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 25, 2011

On With Many Hands, bassist/composer Michael Feinberg charts his epic journey across the topographic ocean of sound, every once in awhile plunging into its depths to stir up a vortex and emerge with a roar. His playing is that driven by a powerful natural energy. Thus, he disappears and explores the temples of tone and timbre, ...

Noah Preminger Plays Ballads on Tenor: "Before the Rain"

March 24, 2011

Coltrane's Ballad album gave much credence to the idea that a cutting-edge player could still say something important within the ballad form. Since then there have been others. Young tenor saxman Noah Preminger weighs in with his own Before the Rain (Palmetto) and he does it with style. He has picked the right players for this ...