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Pat Metheny Group: The Roots of Coincidence
by Ken Laster
This performance rocks out! What is unique about this video is seeing Lyle Mays stepping out from behind his keyboards to playing guitar alongside Pat Metheny. Who knew? Antonio Sanchez is a beast on the drums as well. Perhaps this clip is one to play for your “jazz-skeptic" friends who claim jazz is too smooth or ...
Jon Stickley Trio: Point to Point
by Geno Thackara
Cross Nickel Creek with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and you'll start getting close to Jon Stickley's neighborhood--but there's still a lot more in there to discover once you make your way around town. The JS3 starts with folk/bluegrass instrumentation (acoustic guitar/violin/drums) and adds dashes of anything from math-prog to Latin or Celtic, while the dazzling ...
Medeski Martin & Wood: Smoke
by Michael Ricci
Ever get stuck at a red light with some youngster blaring infernal racket from his car in the other lane? You can't wait for the light to turn green... but it gives you an idea... and you're thinking... which song can I crank up that turns heads in, say, the Costco parking lot? Here's one. With ...
Ahmad Jamal: Baia
by Ian Patterson
What was it about pianist Ahmad Jamal's playing that so fascinated Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett? There is no better place to find the answer than in this electrifying live performance from 1980. Bassist Sabu Adeyola and drummer Payton Crossley ply an irresistible groove, but it is Jamal's unmatched touch, sense of swing and his wicked ...
Haeun Joo: We Will Find
by Geno Thackara
You can read a lot into the simple phrase “We Will Find," and befitting such a title--especially for a debut--Haeun Joo sounds equal parts exploratory and hopeful. The jazzy grooving and trading of solos is familiar as can be, while her wordless crooning adds a more exotic allure at the same time. Strange and charming.
Shane Theriot: Dublin
by Mike Jacobs
Native-born Louisianan Shane Theriot (pronounced “teh-ree-oh") did some serious jazz study before being hired by the likes of The Neville Brothers and Hall and Oates. As “Dublin" shows, it's Theriot's subtle jazz infusions that add a wonderful complexity to his funky, NOLA-spiced solo outings, but it's an equally delicious feat how the guitarist unfailingly proves that ...
Skúli Sverrisson & Óskar Guðjónsson: Afternoon Variant
by Pamela MacCarthy
Composer Skúli Sverrisson on bass guitar, is joined by fellow Icelander Óskar Guðjónsson on tenor sax. Skúli's unique bass guitar playing technique is well suited to Óskar`s soothing tenor sax. These two instruments create an otherworldly, hypnotic sound, quite unique... Their album Box Tree was released in September 2012, and won “Record of the Year" in ...
Kneebody: The Trip
by Mike Jacobs
If there are jazz earworms, this one's so intoxicating it might indeed be suspected of originating in a bottle of Mezcal--were it not so infectiously upbeat, that is. From their album Chapters (Edition, 2019), “The Trip" features the classic five-man Kneebody complement of Ben Wendel, Shane Endsley, Kaveh Rastegar, Adam Benjamin and Nate Wood plus the ...
Tigran Hamasyan: Shoger Jan (Live at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall, 2010)
by Mike Jacobs
In 2010, Tigran Hamasyan may still have been on his way to becoming more of a known quantity but it's performances like this one that inevitably spread his reputation to larger audiences like wildfire. This 24-minute rendition of “Shoger Jan" was expanded to include spots from bassist Sam Miniae, Hamasyan and saxophonist Ben Wendel, but it ...
