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Laura Dubin Trio: Live At The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival
by Roger Farbey
Despite the cartoonish CD cover illustration, depicting a smiling Laura Dubin seated at a grand piano, and perhaps giving the false impression that this is a jokey album, the music surely proves otherwise. This ambitious double album of a live performance on July 2nd, 2016 contains many surprising and engaging pieces. Opening with Steve Allen's “This ...
"A Multitude of Angels" di Keith Jarrett Secondo Stefano Battaglia
by Stefano Battaglia
La ECM ha appena pubblicato A Moltitude of Angels, un cofanetto di quattro dischi che documentano altrettante staordinarie performance solistiche di Keith Jarrett registrate in Italia nel 1996. Ne abbiamo approfittato per chiedere ad uno dei principali pianisti italiani, Stefano Battaglia, una riflessione su questo ambizioso progetto discografico. Quello che Battaglia ci ha inviato, ...
Stu Harrison: Volume 1
by Dan McClenaghan
Toronto-based pianist Stu Harrison doesn't boast much of an internet presence, so we'll go with the music: Stu Harrison: Volume I is a celebration of the standard piano trio format, a joyful immersion into ten familiar tunes, beginning with Lerner & Lowe's “The Street where You Live," from My Fair Lady soundtrack. The lively take on ...
Jazz Near You Collaborates with Blue Note Jazz Club (NYC)
Jazz Near You, the world's leading jazz event aggregator, has collaborated with Blue Note New York to collect and distribute all jazz events presented at New York's premier jazz club and one of the most recognized jazz venues in the world. Jazz Near You continues to build on what is already the most comprehensive New York ...
Clay Giberson: Pastures
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Clay Giberson has a fifteen year resume of fine recordings on Seattle's Origin Records label. The discs are, for the most part, solo and trio outings, with the trio sets appearing under his own name or that of his long-standing Upper Left Trio. Some examples: Spaceton's Approach, (2008), and Minga Minga (2015) as Clay Giberson; ...
Paul Winter Sextet: Count Me In
by Duncan Heining
The Paul Winter Sextet might just be one of the best early sixties groups you never heard. Their story, and that of their leader and altoist Paul Winter's, is certainly one of the most remarkable in jazz. Had some director made a film of the Sextet's short life, jazz buffs would have scoffed at the conceit. ...
Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen & Mulgrew Miller: The Duo - Live!
by Chris Mosey
After admiring each other's playing from afar for years, Danish bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and American pianist Mulgrew Miller got together in 1999 to record a promotional album of Duke Ellington numbers for the hi-fi company Bang & Olufsen. They enjoyed it so much that the following year they got together again for ...
Fábio Torres: The Making of Modern Brazilian Jazz
by Samuel Quinto FRSA
When such a vast style as Latin Jazz is explored by musicians of various nationalities, when rhythmic elements are combined, when a portion of good taste and brilliance is added to this mixture, the result could not be different: The Making of Modern Brazilian Jazz. Fabio Torres is a great example of all this. ...
The Cookers, Mingus Big Band and Cyrus Chestnut
by Peter Jurew
The Cookers Birdland New York, NY September 15, 2016 The Cookers are an all-star septet that takes its name from the classic Freddie Hubbard album, The Night Of The Cookers, a 1965 live effort from the master trumpeter who passed in 2008. A somewhat fluid lineup earlier in ...
Thomas Marriott: Balance in Life and Music
by Paul Rauch
If one should by chance be curious of what is happening with jazz in the city of Seattle, and the Pacific Northwest, one would do well to check out what trumpeter Thomas Marriott is up to. Thomas has established himself as one the most exciting artists to emerge on the national jazz scene in the past ...
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