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Sunday at the Monterey Jazz Festival
by Dave Kaufman
Friday | Saturday | Sunday Sunday was a spectacularly beautiful day in Monterey which was just perfect for the 12-hour marathon of music. The closing day of the Jazz Festival included a stellar lineup of great jazz artists including Joe Lovano, Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Brad Mehldau, Regina Carter and the closing ...
George Colligan: More Powerful
by Roger Farbey
Pianist George Colligan's twenty eighth album as leader sees him joined by long-time colleague Rudy Royston on drums, bassist Linda May Han Oh and newcomer Nicole Glover, Colligan's former student at Portland, on reeds. Colligan has a long career in jazz and, in addition to teaching at Portland State University where he's the Jazz Area Coordinator, ...
Vicenza Jazz Festival 2017
by Libero Farnè
Vicenza Jazz Festival 2017 Vicenza, varie sedi 12-21.05.2017 Dipanandosi per una decina di giorni in vari spazi, per larga misura luoghi di alto valore storico-monumentale, il festival diretto da Riccardo Brazzale ha confermato la sua linea possibilista, alla ricerca di certezze e sorprese, di nomi noti e proposte più specialistiche, ...
Possibilites: Get 'Em
by Dan McClenaghan
The saxophone/bass/drums grouping--at one time a rarity--seems to be undergoing a renewal of sorts. Drummer Rudy Royston offered up a fine example of the genre with Rise Of Orion (Greenleaf Music, 2016). Saxophonist JD Allen dove deep into the blues on Americana (Savant Records, 2016), and sax man Jason Rigby presented a breakout effort on the ...
Bergamo Jazz Festival 2017
by Francesco Martinelli
Bergamo Jazz Festival Bergamo, Italy March 19-26, 2017 The Bergamo Jazz Festival, one of the most long-lived and prestigious Italian festivals, celebrated in 2017 its 39th edition. Since about ten years the Town of Bergamo nominates a musician as artistic director, and the 2017 edition has been the second under ...
Bergamo Jazz Festival 2017
by Libero Farnè
Bergamo Jazz Festival Bergamo, varie sedi 19-26.03.2017 Il Bergamo Jazz Festival, che nel 2018 doppierà la boa della quarantesima edizione, per il secondo anno consecutivo è stato diretto da Dave Douglas, il quale ha imbastito un programma decisamente vario, coinvolgendo un numero sempre maggiore di sedi nella Città Alta e nella ...
Bill Frisell: A Portrait
by John Kelman
Bill Frisell Bill Frisell: A Portrait A Film by Emma Franz2017 Not long after the film Bill Frisell: A Portrait begins to roll, Bonnie Raitt--one of the many high profile names that lend their thoughts about one of the most influential guitarists and composers of the past forty years to ...
Art Hirahara: Central Line
by Dan Bilawsky
The central meaning behind pianist Art Hirahara's Central Line is simple to suss out. In literal terms Hirahara is referencing the Chuo-Sen (Central Line) subway line, a means for establishing his own relationship to the jazz world in Tokyo. But the message of the album runs deeper than that, tapping into the central lines that link ...
James Brandon Lewis Trio: No Filter
by Mark F. Turner
James Brandon Lewis's authoritative horn is demonstrated in his cultural influenced releases --gospel spirituality in Divine Travels (Okeh, 2014) featuring bassist William Parker and drummer Gerald Cleaver; soulful lyricism and hip hop in Days of Freeman (Okeh, 2015) with heavies bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma and drummer Rudy Royston. He continues that exploration with a new trio in ...
Rise Of Orion
By Rudy Royston
Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2016
Track listing: Rise Of Orion; Nautical; Alnitak; Sister Mother Clara; Man O To; Alnilam; Make A
Smile For Me; Kolbe War; River Styx; Dido's Lament; Mintaka; We Had It All; Belt.
