Results for "Pilgrim"

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Myra Melford Splash, Thomas Heberer's Remedy & Ra Bishop

by Maurice Hogue
March 31, 2025

It's early in the year to be thinking “best-of" albums, but I'm definitely noting these for December: pianist Myra Melford's Splash Trio with bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Ches Smith and Remedy, the trio of Thomas Heberer trumpet, Joe Fonda bass & Joe Hertenstein drums. These are two recordings that present the kind of free expression ...

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Pilgrim

By Benjamin Lackner

Label: Stray Dog Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Mowgla; Pilgrim; Beyond; Let it Die; Brad Plus; Blind; I Never; Lonely, Lonely; K.W.S. Nightmare; Transkei; Emma's Song.

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Article: Album Review

Benny Lackner Trio: Pilgrim

Read "Pilgrim" reviewed by Michael J. West

by Michael J. West
January 12, 2008

The rock-ish but very adult Pilgrim is a cautionary example of why detail is important in jazz. On a cursory listen, the Benny Lackner Trio sounds like a Bad Plus imitator: the rock influence is heavy, pianist Lackner shares Ethan Iverson's harmonic trajectory and heavy touch, and drummer Robert Perkins' sound is superficially like Dave King's ...

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Benny Lackner Trio: Pilgrim

Read "Pilgrim" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 27, 2007

The Benny Lackner Trio calls itself a “collective," with each member “interjecting equally toward the construction of the material." This sef-description was certainly true of the group's previous outing, Sign of the Times (Nagel Heyer, 2006). It's an even more accurate characterization of the group's approach on Pilgrim.The “collective" is a piano trio, with ...