Results for "Oscar Peterson"

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW April 13, 2019

Gabriel Latchin Trio: The Moon And I

Read "The Moon And I" reviewed by Roger Farbey

Following on from Gabriel Latchin's eponymous debut album Introducing Gabriel Latchin Trio (Alys Jazz, 2017), The Moon And I, recorded in London in February 2018, seeks to consolidate his position as a first rate straight ahead jazz pianist. Indeed his style is not dissimilar to George Shearing, Oscar Peterson, André Previn or Dudley Moore. As with ...

ARTICLE: PROFILE February 11, 2019

Sonny Buxton: Strayhorn’s Last Drummer, A Radio Master Class Mid-Day Saturdays

By ARTHUR R GEORGE

Sociologist, anthropologist, historian: storyteller, raconteur, entrepreneur and griot, in the guise of a deejay. Registrar, dean, professor: The jazz class of Sonny Buxton is barely concealed as entertainment within his weekly radio program every Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific time on San Francisco Bay Area FM station KCSM 91.1, streaming live on kcsm.org.

ARTICLE: INTERVIEW August 20, 2018

Huw Warren: Global Music from a Local Perspective

By JAKOB BAEKGAARD

Welsh pianist and composer, Huw Warren, has been an important voice on the British jazz scene for many years. With a seemingly endless appetite for music, Warren has both been delving into Brazilian music with singer Maria Pia de Vito and played ethereal folk-inspired jazz music with another singer, June Tabor, in the trio Quercus. He ...

ARTICLE: SOCAL JAZZ March 11, 2018

John Mayall: In The Pocket at 84

By JIM WORSLEY

For the past five and a half decades, John Mayall has written scores of both relevant and joyous music. It should come as no surprise that at the tender age of 84 he continues to do so. It soothingly, and ingeniously, seems to flow out of him like a calm, yet telling, river. Many ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW September 19, 2017

Simon Eskildsen Trio: Introducing the Simon Eskildsen Trio

By JAKOB BAEKGAARD

The art of the piano trio is very difficult to master and yet very simple. It is all about chemistry. Three players trying to find a language together, traversing a path that has been explored so many times before. Keeping the heavy heritage of the piano trio in mind, including leaders like Bill ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW August 27, 2017

The Three Sounds: Groovin' Hard: Live at the Penthouse 1964-1968

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

In the five years spanning 1958 to '62, not only a time of great consolidation and experimentation in jazz but a glorious age for the label, who would you guess was Blue Note Records' best-selling act? Thanks to their nine albums and nearly two dozen more jukebox singles, it was The Three Sounds. Led ...

NEWS: RECORDING February 28, 2017

Pianist Rupert Leighton Releases New Album "All Kinds Of Fine"

The latest release from English pianist & composer Rupert Leighton is a synthesis of groove-laden jazz and chill-out excursions. Dazzling piano strides, liquid keys and splashes of saxophone are underpinned by warm bass and vibrant rhythms. Composed, produced & arranged by Rupert, the 11 original tracks serve up intelligent arrangements in an array of moods incorporating ...
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ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEW April 30, 2015

Pat Martino Trio at Bucks County Community College

By VICTOR L. SCHERMER

Pat Martino Trio Kevin and Sima Zlock Performing Arts Center Bucks County Community College Newtown, PA April 23, 2015 In the 1960s and 70s, spurred on by the support he received from the great Les Paul, a youthful guitarist Pat Martino evolved his unique style of controlled intensity, “fat" ...

ARTICLE: INTERVIEW March 17, 2014

Gerard D'Angelo: Who's Kidding Who?

By DANMICHAEL REYES

The old adage about those who can do and those who can't teach doesn't fit nicely into any music tradition. If this fallacy were to hold true, then it would be best for music history books to write off Joseph Haydn for taking on pupils--Beethoven being one of the more famous ones. That old idiom penned ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW February 7, 2014

John Brown: Quiet Time

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

Bassist and bandleader John Brown was last heard backing Nneena Freelon on her Christmas (Brown Boulevard Records, 2013) release leading one of his decidedly larger ensembles. Quiet Time finds the bassist pared down to a classic trumpet-saxophone quintet size for a recital of after-hours tunes. Brown's fronting horns are trumpeter Ray Codrington and saxophonist Brian Miller. ...