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Ari Hoenig: The Life of a Day
by Phil DiPietro
The worldwide botherhood of the drums is hereby kicked in the pants! Ari Hoenig's work in the ensembles of Jean-Michel Pilc, Seamus Blake, Jonathan Kreisberg, Pat Martino, and Wayne Krantz has extended the art of jazz drumming into the future. He's done this via telepathic interaction with soloists, forging his own brand of swing and exerting ...
A New Face - Make Mine an OliRockberger Please- with Zero Cheese!
by Phil DiPietro
With the publication of this interview I'm completely confident my A&R chops will be recognized in written or verbal, but in all probability, not financial form. Unless you're Bostonian and attend ensembles, rehearsals, recitals and commencements at Berklee- or this year, attended the UK's Brecon Jazz Festival- you wouldn't know who Oliver Rockberger is, but as ...
Dapp Theory: Y'All Just Don't Know
by Phil DiPietro
Steve Coleman 's University continues to spawn musical alumni of the highest order. It's no coincidence that recent releases by Ralph Alessi , Ravi Coltrane , Matt Garrison , Gene Lake , and Vijay Iyer have been rhythmatic thrill rides - there's simply no choice in the matter after having dealt with all that Coleman is ...
Bill McHenry: Bill McHenry Quartet feat. Paul Motian
by Phil DiPietro
Bill McHenry, Reid Anderson and Ben Monder are members of a collective of musicians currently based in Manhattan who have recorded for the Catalonian label Fresh Sounds , representing one of jazz's futures. They're forward thinking, rejecting tradition in their composing and playing, “Downtown" without being so far downtown as the Knit or Tonic, free without ...
Drori Mondlak and Straight Circle: Wake-Up Call
by Phil DiPietro
Drori Mondlak brings a lot to the table as a drummer/leader. Born to a Polish father and English mother in Mexico City, his family soon moved to London and then New York, where he's remained. Along with this natural assimilation of cultures and rhythms came an infatuation with the drums when he switched over from piano ...
Craig Taborn: Suggesting Textural Dimension
by Phil DiPietro
Craig Taborn has distinguished himself through his work, some of it nothing short of groundbreaking, with some of the most important musicians in New York's “Downtown" scene. His contributions during parallel careers with Mat Maneri, Drew Gress, Marty Ehrlich, Gerald Cleaver, Dave Douglas' Witness project, and Tim Berne's Hard Cell and Science Friction Units, has been ...
Oteil Burbridge and the Peacemakers: The Family Secret
by Phil DiPietro
You may recall John Snyder's name from his tenures at CTI, Horizon Records, and his own label, Artists House--not to mention past Grammy winners lists (he's been associated with 5). By the time he was 30 he'd worked with such industry giants as Creed Taylor, Rudy Van Gelder, Herb Alpert and Ahmet Ertegun, as well as ...
Jef Lee Johnson, Sonny Thompson and Michael Bland: News From the Jungle
by Phil DiPietro
A quintessential slab of guitar-based, acid-drenched, New Power Generation/ Blackrock Coalition crossbred funk brought to you from the recording studios of Minneapolis... starring a now officially, ridiculously, inexcusably under-recognized guitar god/genius/freak from Philadelphia, all coming to you through the good graces of... France?The most intriguing--bizarre, even--musical by-product of Vivendi's corporate devouring of Universal has ...
Hiromi: Another Mind
by Phil DiPietro
The bulk of my efforts here have focused on revealing some incredibly talented musicians who operate outside the bounds of the “conventional" music business (read: without benefit of major label clout) due to a plethora of barriers. It's a pleasure to be reporting on a new arrival that exhibits so much talent, so much potential, that ...
The Future 2 Future DVD- A Feature 4 Feature MVD (Most Valuable Document)
by Phil DiPietro
Herbie Hancock continues to build on his larger-than-life legacy by not only having been there when, but by continuing to consistently be there then. In no small part this is what makes him, at a dashing 62 (last year, Herbie told one Mr. Letterman, in front of a nationwide audience, somehow with absolute total class, that ...
