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Bill Charlap: Plays George Gershwin: The American Soul
by Paul Olson
Pianist Bill Charlap continues his inexorable climb up the top-tier, big-time jazz mountain with Plays George Gershwin, his first release since last year's Somewhere: the Songs of Leonard Bernstein. Here this quintessentially New York pianist covers another quintessentially New York composer--in this case, one so frequently covered by jazz musicians that one wonders whether Charlap and ...
The Great Jazz Trio: 'S Wonderful
by Paul Olson
There's certainly no dearth of Hank Jones on CD this year. Whether as a leader on his new trio release, For My Father, or in central roles on the Thad Jones tribute album One More: Music of Thad Jones and Joe Lovano's Joyous Encounter, Jones has been cluttering up the record store jazz section. More power ...
Stich Wynston's Modern Surfaces: Transparent Horizons
by Paul Olson
Toronto musician Stich Wynston takes drumming about as far from its timekeeping role as it can possibly go on Transparent Horizons, his first CD since his 1999 eponymous debut on Buzz Records. Wynston and his group Modern Surfaces (saxophonist Mike Murley, guitarist Geoff Young, and bassist Jim Vivian) maintain almost the same lineup as the previous ...
Terence Blanchard: Flow
by Paul Olson
Flow is trumpeter Terence Blanchard's first album since Bounce (2003), and it features most of the same players from that album: Brice Winston on tenor and soprano sax, Lionel Loueke on guitar and vocals, and Aaron Parks on piano. This recording includes drummer Kendrick Scott and bassist Derrick Hodge, two new additions to the sextet--and what ...
Mingus Big Band: I Am Three
by Paul Olson
Mingus Big Band/Orchestra/Dynasty I Am Three Sunnyside Records 2005 I Am Three, the debut CD on the Sue Mingus Music imprint (distributed as part of Sunnyside's Confluences Series), pays tribute to the late Charles Mingus by bringing together the three principal Mingus repertory bands: Mingus Big Band, Mingus ...
Vijay Iyer: Part 2-2
by Paul Olson
Part 1 | Part 2 New York pianist/composer Vijay Iyer may be the musician of 2005. With his remarkable quartet and their fine new CD Reimagining, his collaborative, experimental trio Fieldwork (whose new CD Simulated Progress should turn some heads when it's released in July), his past and future collaborations with spoken-word/experimental hip-hop ...
Vijay Iyer, Part 1-2
by Paul Olson
Part 1 | Part 2 New York pianist/composer Vijay Iyer may be the musician of 2005. With his remarkable quartet and their fine new CD Reimagining, his collaborative, experimental trio Fieldwork (whose new CD Simulated Progress should turn some heads when it's released in July), his past and future collaborations with spoken-word/experimental hip-hop ...
3 Sisters: Village
by Paul Olson
Two guitars, an electric bassist, and a drummer. That's actually a surprisingly uncommon jazz lineup nowadays, and that novelty provides a great deal of the initial pleasure in hearing Village, an album the Canadian quartet 3 Sisters recorded in Toronto in 2002, only now seeing release on drummer Barry Romberg's Romhog label. Romberg, guitarists Geoff Young ...
Meat Beat Manifesto: At the Center
by Paul Olson
Meat Beat Manifesto, aka Jack Dangers, has been working in electronic music since the late 1980s; his recordings on labels like Wax Trax! and Sweatbox seemed to capture the zeitgeist of the club sound of the era, while retaining an innate musicality and playfulness that some of his peers lacked. At the Center is the latest ...
Guillermo Klein: Una Nave
by Paul Olson
Composer/bandleader Guillermo Klein left New York City in 2000 to return to his native Argentina (he has since relocated to Barcelona), but his seven years in Gotham undoubtedly made an influence--on his fellow musicians, anyway. His large ensemble groups Guillermo Klein Big Band and Los Guachos were criminally under-recorded considering his remarkable musical talent.Maybe ...
