Home » Search Center » Results: Palmetto Records
Results for "Palmetto Records"
Bill Mays: Fantasy
by Ralph A. Miriello
For those who have never seriously incorporated classical music in their musical diet, Fantasy, the new crossover album from pianist Bill Mays, trumpeter extraordinaire Marvin Stamm and cellist Alisa Horn, collectively known as The Inventions Trio, is a good starting point for some exposure to classical pieces rendered with a sensibility toward improvisation. Mays, ...
Bill Mays: Fantasy
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Between them, pianist/composer Bill Mays and trumpeter/educator Marvin Stamm have been around for approximately 634 years. These two have done it all, including duos and trios and quartets and quintets; big bands and studio work and TV and movies. They've also been friends for much of it, and aside from all the innovation and superb playing ...
Javon Jackson: Now
by Jim Santella
As a member of drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson learned what it takes to create good music. One of the most influential teachers for several generations, Blakey stressed the importance of finding your groove and sticking to it. He demanded that each of his Messengers step up and take the bull by ...
Fred Hersch Trio: Night And The Music
by AAJ Italy Staff
Grazie all’attività meritoria di label indipendenti come la Palmetto, Fred Hersch continua da qualche anno ad incidere con puntuale regolarità. Una discografia la sua che si sta facendo anno dopo anno sempre più corposa, ancorché contrassegnata dall’alto livello di creatività. Eppure - incredibilmente - il pianista statunitense incarna ancora la tipica figura di musician’s musician: artista ...
Matt Wilson's Arts And Crafts: The Scenic Route
by AAJ Italy Staff
Jazz piacevole e godibile, ma discontinuo negli esiti e con qualche caduta di gusto. Si potrebbe sintetizzare così la più recente produzione discografica del pur eccellente batterista Matt Wilson: solista notevole ma arrangiatore non molto fantasioso. Alti ma anche bassi in questo percorso, a tratti ben congegnato dal leader con piglio sicuro e la disinvoltura da ...
Javon Jackson: Now
by John Barron
Audiences who first came to know Javon Jackson through his recordings for Criss Cross and Blue Note shouldn't be the least bit surprised when the Joe Henderson-inspired tenor saxophonist, who first came to prominence with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, releases a commercially conscious disc like Now. As with his previous efforts for Palmetto Records, 2003's Easy ...
Fred Hersch Trio: Night and the Music
by Victor L. Schermer
Pianist Fred Hersch is proving himself to be not only a solid mainstream jazz pianist but also an imaginative and creative musical force. His Leaves of Grass (Palmetto, 2005), with vocalist Kurt Elling broke new ground by setting the poetry of Walt Whitman to written and improvised musical composition incorporating jazz and traditional “heartland American motifs. ...
The Fred Hersch Trio: Night and the Music
by Riel Lazarus
Although there are no set formulas for success or achievement in jazz, there are certainly a few “legs-up and “add-ons. In the case of the trio, one such advantage is that of comfort and familiarity between the members. With these in play, the notes begin to blend and fall seamlessly in line: three voices turn to ...
Kate McGarry: The Target
by Suzanne Lorge
Kate McGarry makes full use of her lilting, pitch- perfect voice on The Target, her third release for Palmetto Records. Like many jazz singers today, McGarry culls some of her musical ideas from non-jazz idioms like pop and folk; in McGarry's case, this hybridization of influences expands rather than limits her individual vocal expression. According to ...
Kate McGarry: The Target
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
There's a whole lot of nonsense in Vocal Land these days, since it's so easy for the earnest but talent-challenged to produce a CD and hire a publicist. There are occasional gems in the mud, for sure, but the field is crowded with wannabes. And the majors don't help when they push faux sexuality, or turn ...
