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The Most Exciting Jazz Albums Since 1969: 1998-2000
by Robert Middleton
The recurring theme in the fifth installment of 72 Jazz Thrillers is Middle Eastern music represented by John Zorn's Bar Kokhba Sextet, Either/Orchestra's Ethiopian Suite, and Mark Gross's Riddle of the Sphinx. Middle Eastern music often features complex rhythmic patterns, such as compound time signatures and intricate polyrhythms. Jazz musicians have drawn inspiration from these rhythms, ...
Jeremy Dutton, Laurent Cugny, Peter Epstein, Aki Rissanen & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
The Fender Rhodes is back and everywhere (actually, it never left)! And so is Peter Epstein almost a decade after his acclaimed album Polarities, and with a new sextet! We'll get all of that, and more, in this edition of Mondo Jazz.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & ...
Peter Epstein, Brad Shepik, Matt Kilmer: Temoin
by Mike Jacobs
The nimble “Temoin" is one of the many piquant delights this unusually formatted trio (sax, guitar, frame drum) puts forth on Lingua Franca (Songlines, 2005), The absence of upright or electric bass creates a tangibly wider sonic space for their ethnically-tinged, odd-metered romps and highlights their wonderfully telepathic interplay. At times subtle, at others spicy, the ...
Manzanita Quintet: Osmosis
by Dan McClenaghan
The tried and true quintet formation, set in stone by alto saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie in the late 1940s, is back in 2022 with the Reno, Nevada-based Manzanita Quintet. So how do they give a fresh shine to a sound that could be considered “done to death?" On Osmosis the ...
Hansepts
Album: Osmosis
By Manzanita Quintet
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 07:11
Ethnic Embraces
by Mike Jacobs
For the fourth installment in the continuing BackTracks series, we take a look at some notable releases that infuse their jazz with stylistic spice indigenous to different regions of the world—namely North Africa, the Iberian peninsula and the Balkans. As BackTracks was on a hiatus of sorts (and because these recordings seemed to emerge in matched ...
Giancarlo Schiaffini & Sergio Armaroli and Kopasetic artists
by Maurice Hogue
Deconstructing one of the original deconstructers of jazz, Thelonious Monk, is no easy task, but the Italian duo of trombonist Giancarlo Schiaffini and percussionist Sergio Armaroli do exactly that on their new album Deconstructing Monk In Africa. It's one of the more unusual releases of late; you'll hear an excerpt from their extended work. Monk is ...
About Peter Epstein
Instrument: Saxophone, sopranino
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Peter Epstein
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Peter Epstein began his career in 1984 in Portland, Oregonwhere he apprenticed with resident musicians Nancy Kingand Glen Moore. In 1992, after four years of studying jazzand various world music genres at California Institute of theArts, Peter earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree andrelocated to New York City.
Since then he has appeared on over 30 recordings andtoured in more than 20 countries with artists including BobbyPrevite, Brad Shepik, Ralph Alessi, Michael Cain, Medeski,Martin, & Wood, Mike Stern, Jim Black, Ravi Coltrane, andmany others. As a leader, Peter has released four albums forMA Recordings.
20 Years of One Man’s Jazz
by Maurice Hogue
This show marks the 20th anniversary of One Man's Jazz which began its radio journey on May 1, 1999 at CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg, eventually shifting to extraterrestrial Taint Radio in 2012. Rather than just play something from my favourite recording list for each of those twenty years (that was too easy), I decided to ...
Peter Epstein: Effortless Precision
by Stephen A. Smith
This article was first published at All About Jazz in June 2001. Peter Epstein is one of the brightest saxophonists on the New York scene. Since coming to New York from Portland in 1992, he has recorded with Brad Shepik, Ralph Alessi, and a host of others, on more than 30 albums. He has ...
