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Nguyen Le: Encanto
by Mike Jacobs
It's a rare thing to have two bassists playing together on one track let alone two at the top of opposite ends of the acoustic/electric bass spectrum, but that's exactly what guitarist Nguyen Le managed on his enthralling tune, “Encanto." From Le's album Bakida (ACT, 2000), he is joined by bass titans Carles Benavent on electric ...
Tim Garland: Sama'i For Peace
by Mike Jacobs
Ever completely miss an album that has a bunch of guys that you expressly keep an ear to the ground for? Well, it even happens to music writers. Just in case you missed out too, here's a fine track from Tim Garland's One (Edition, 2016) featuring Jason Rebello, Asaf Sirkis and Ant Law. ...
Grant Green: Idle Moments
by Geno Thackara
Idle moments can so often be the most inspiring ones--the kind that are not about doing nothing, exactly, but rather leaving space for who-knows-what to happen. In the case of this session, what happened was a slight chart-reading mixup that had everyone taking solos twice as long as planned. For such a patient and dreamy piece, ...
Adam Holzman and Brave New World: Iron Curtain
by Mike Jacobs
Keyboardist Adam Holzman may be known more these days for his work with the sometime Porcupine Tree progressive mastermind Steven Wilson but the biggest thing on AH's resume prior to his working with Wilson was his stint as keyman for one Miles Davis. Dropping the needle on “Iron Curtain," this all becomes crystal clear as it's ...
Eran Har Even: Rise
by Mike Jacobs
As the title might suggest, the music on guitarist Eran Har Even's album 20/21 sprang from the depths of the pandemic years, when musicians somehow found ways to live and express themselves in the absence of being able to perform live. The opening “Rise" as well as others from this album are indelibly marked by the ...
Naughty Professor: Kings
by Mike Jacobs
It seems that over the last few years, the New Orleans-based collective Naughty Professor has built up a reputation that has a lot of musicians ambling on down to the Crescent City to sit in with them. Their one/two punch of an ultra-tight rhythm section coupled with a sharper-than-a-tack horn section makes it easy to understand ...
Anthony Fung: Boo Boo's Birthday
by John Chacona
Show business savants know the power of a marquee name in the credits, and the lesson has not been lost on jazz musicians. So it's no surprise that Canadian-born drummer Anthony Fung invited fellow Angeleno Mark Turner to guest on Fo(u)rth (Self Produced, 2023). The risk of being upstaged is always present, even with an artist ...
Gavin Harrison: Hatesong / Halo
by Geno Thackara
Folks who know the name Gavin Harrison know that it's synonymous with versatility, which he's shown through a career including more than one of the world's brainier heavy rock bands. Porcupine Tree probably has the lowest jazzy quotient of those, whch makes it perfectly perverse that Harrison and co-collaborator Laurence Cottle re-shaped a whole album's worth ...
