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Page McConnell: From Studio(s) to Stage(s)
by Doug Collette
Like the CD that bears his name, Page McConnell is deceptively ambitious. As member of the definitive jamband Phish for over twenty years, the Philadelphia native played an integral yet understated role in how the Vermont-based quartet defined itself and its music. Ultimately taking a background role, the sounds of McConnell's keyboards--whether grand piano, ...
Joshua Redman: Takes On The Challenge of the Trio
by R.J. DeLuke
Joshua Redman, one of the most consistently creative musicians of his generation, a fiend on whatever saxophone he chooses to pick up, and a thoughtful, imaginative person, is at it again.He's not re-inventing the wheel, he says with a chuckle when discussing Back East (Nonesuch, 2007). But this exploring musician has gone back to ...
Metheny Mehldau: Quartet
by Nenad Georgievski
Distinguished musicians playing and recording together tells you that the sky will be the limit for its potential. The collaboration between guitarist Pat Metheny and piano prodigy Brad Mehldau was so fruitful that the initial session that gave us the brilliant Mehldau/Metheny duo album, also produced Quartet, with Mehldau's standard Trio joining forces. ...
Metheny Mehldau: Quartet
by John Kelman
In many ways Quartet--the second disc culled from the December, 2005 collaboration between iconic guitarist Pat Metheny and the younger but increasingly influential pianist Brad Mehldau--is the record that Pat Metheny Group's final Geffen album, 1996's Quartet, should have been. While the Metheny Group record had its charms, it was the closest thing to a contractual ...
February 2007
by AAJ Staff
NEA Jazz Masters at IAJE At a ceremony resembling the Emmys or Grammys, flash bulbs blinded the 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters as each was announced at the annual event on the penultimate night of the four-day IAJE Jazz Conference (Jan. 12th). This year's class: bandleader/arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi, trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist Ramsey ...
2006 Contributor Picks
by AAJ Staff
We solicited opinions from all active All About Jazz contributors, and out of more than 500 nominations, the following 2006 releases garnered the most votes. New Releases Andrew Hill Time Lines (Blue Note) CD Reviews Interview Ornette Coleman
John Kelman's Best of 2006
by John Kelman
Selected picks representing the top recorded events in jazz and beyond for 2006.... Jazz New Releases Iro Haarla Northbound (ECM) Joe Locke/Geoffrey Keezer Group Live in Seattle (Origin) The Vandermark 5 A Discontinuous Line (Atavistic) Stephan ...
Phish: Colorado '88
by Doug Collette
Phish Colorado '88 Jemp Records 2006 Colorado '88 is the latest archive release from Phish, available as a three-disc set or as downloads from the band's website (the latter include five extra tracks). It's a set of recordings taken from Phish's first expedition outside of New ...
Shawn Colvin: These Four Walls
by John Kelman
For her first Nonesuch release, singer/songwriter Shawn Colvin and longtime producer/co-writer John Leventhal strip things back to the basics. The same approach made her 1989 Columbia debut Steady On a refreshing breath of fresh air at a time when kitchen sink production was de rigueur. Both have matured as artists in the ensuing years, and These ...
Phish Live in Brooklyn
by Doug Collette
Phish Live in Brooklyn Rhino 2006 If the individual band members' need for escape from the confines of Phish has any bearing on the playing contained in Live in Brooklyn, it's purely positive. Whether from the release of pent-up emotion with the announcement of their disbandment ...
