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Gavin Templeton: Ballast
by Dave Wayne
A native of Reno, Nevada, alto saxophonist Gavin Templeton is emerging as one of the leading voices of Los Angeles' suddenly burgeoning modern jazz scene. If the music on Ballast, his fourth album as a leader, is any indication, Templeton might just be on his way to becoming one of the leading voices in modern jazz, ...
Michael Cain: Sola
by Karl Ackermann
In his long and well-established career, keyboardist/composer Michael Cain has often flown under the radar. Dating back to 1991, Cain was part of the bassist Anthony Cox's impressive quartet which included saxophonist Dewey Redman drummer Billy Higgins in its initial formation. His fine piano trio outing Circa (ECM, 1997) with trumpeter Ralph Alessi and saxophonist Peter ...
David Ake: Lake Effect
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist David Ake strikes a pensive pose on the back cover of Lake Effect, foreshadowing a good amount of the music that follows. With his previous album, Ake reveled in the opportunity to keep listener's guessing from song to song and moment to moment. It was a musical gambit that paid off handsomely, making Bridges (Posi-Tone, ...
Polarities
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Polarity; Tiny Expanding Universe; Forever Now; Old Yarn; Email From Nigeria; Aholdu; Constance; Hurtle; Stillness.
Brubeck Institute Announces New Series, Take 5 Jazz At The Brew Schedule
University of the Pacific’s Brubeck Institute this week announced its new Brubeck Institute Presents series and the fall schedule for its popular Take 5 Jazz at the Brew series and Take 5 Jam Sessions. Chris Brubeck, Peter Epstein, Steve Allee and Jamie Baum will each play Brubeck Institute Presents dates this fall, with Stefon Harris and ...
Peter Epstein Will Tour In Support Of New Songlines Release, Polarities
Saxophonist Will Perform on East and West Coasts from July through September Reno-based saxophonist Peter Epstein, whose new Songlines CD, Polarities, has garnered such strong reviews as “it's music of a higher order that's filled with endless surprises...expanding and contracting in fascinating ways" (allaboutjazz.com) and “it's a controlled burn...Epstein never loses the lyricism that defines his ...
Peter Epstein Quartet: Polarities
by Dan Bilawsky
Polarity, depending on the usage of the word, can reference opposites, the carrying of positive and negative charges, or attraction to a specific point, object, or idea; saxophonist Peter Epstein's Polarities deals with all of that. Epstein, a notable player on the New York scene in the '90s, has kept a lower profile ...
Peter Epstein Joins With Ralph Alessi, Sam Minaie And Mark Ferber For First Songlines Release In Nine Years
Polarities, the New Album from the Peter Epstein Quartet, Will be Released on May 13 “...a wonderfully compelling and gripping album, on which instruments and sounds are of a rare expressive power." - Stef Gijssels, Free Jazz Blog, reviewing Epstein's previous release as a leader, Abstract Realism Saxophonist Peter Epstein may have slipped from public view ...
Bridges
By David Ake
Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Bridges; Sonomads; Waterfront; Story Table; We Do?; Boats (exit); Year In Review; Open/Balance; Dodge; Grand Colonial; Light Bright.
Sixth Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival In Brooklyn, Taking Place June 9 And 16 In The Urban Meadow
big bang productions presents the sixth annual RED HOOK JAZZ FESTIVAL on two consecutive Sundays, June 9 and June 16 in the Urban Meadow, a community garden on the Columbia Waterfront District. Both days start at 1pm and end at 6pm. Celebrating its sixth installment of this homegrown jazz festival, this year's line-up features some of ...
