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Blind Date
Label: Pirouet Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Blind Date; What Will Other People Think; Etude; Shape Shifter;
Theme For A New Regime; Don't Be Too Nice; Major; Legroom; Etude - Reprise.
Tim Hagans: Alone Together
by Michael P. Gladstone
Despite the title of trumpeter Tim Hagans' Alone Together, from the Schwartz/Dietz love song, neither the titular tune--nor the majority of the album--is anything but a cooker. Hagans, who has received a lot of exposure by the Pirouet label in 2008, leads this beautifully rendered series of three standards and four originals from pianist Marc Copland--was ...
Tim Hagans: Alone Together
by Budd Kopman
Just as the term jazz is notoriously hard to define, so are many terms within its world including mainstream. Going beyond the “I know it when I hear it" response, mainstream implies the acceptance of the older limits of melody, harmony and rhythm, whereby accessibility, meaning understandability, is more immediate. While many players ...
Tim Hagans: Alone Together
by Woodrow Wilkins
The nice thing about jazz is that even when an artist covers a standard that has been recorded many times and many ways, the music can still sound like something new, despite its familiar feel. Trumpeter Tim Hagans accomplishes this on Alone Together, a mix of old and new. A Dayton (Ohio) native, Hagans ...
Bill Stewart: Incandescence
by Michael P. Gladstone
Funk and jazz drummer Bill Stewart brings an unusual format to this effort. The use of piano and Hammond organ completes his trio, with Stewart offering a series of challenging compositions. Incandescence is indeed an appropriate title for the album, as it exudes a glowing-with-heat ambiance. Stewart's long stretch with guitarist John Scofield's group provides a ...
Tim Hagans: Alone Together
by Troy Collins
Alone Together reunites trumpeter Tim Hagans with pianist Marc Copland's longstanding trio for Hagans' second recording on the German Pirouet Records. The veteran collaborators previous quartet project, Beautiful Lily (Pirouet, 2005), featured a similar line-up with bassist Drew Gress and drummer Bill Stewart; this session includes Copland's regular drummer Jochen Rückert in Stewart's place. Where Beautiful ...
Marc Copland: Another Place
by Troy Collins
Pianist Marc Copland has been the focus of a recent spate of recordings on the German Pirouet label that focus on the traditional piano format. Another Place breaks form and expands the concept to a quartet setting, reuniting Copland with guitarist John Abercrombie, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Billy Hart, all previously heard together on Second ...
Tim Hagans: Alone Together
by Jim Santella
Bridging the gap between bandleader Stan Kenton's progressive experience and today's wide-open jazz market, trumpeter Tim Hagans defines modern jazz through a straight-ahead approach. Three years with the Kenton big band jump-started Hagans' career in the early 1970s after studying music at Bowling Green State University. Moving overnight from dedicated student to hard-working practitioner, Hagans found ...
Henning Sieverts: Symmetry
by John Barron
At first glance, the titles to bassist Henning Sieverts' compositions on Symmetry seem rather unusual. Eventually, after close inspection, one discovers the palindrome theme with titles like “Lion Oil," “Luz Azul" and “Evil Olive." Whether or not the clever naming is relevant to the music at hand remains unexplained. What is obvious about Symmetry is the ...
Marc Copland: Another Place
by John Kelman
It's taken nearly a lifetime for British pianist John Taylor to receive the credit he's due. While still underappreciated in his own country, Marc Copland does seem to be pushing his way through the morass of American pianists to a position of greater prominence. With a discography that gets better every year, Copland--approaching sixty, but looking ...
