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Yelena Eckemoff: Glass Song

by Tyran Grillo
March 7, 2013

Pianist Yelena Eckemoff is refreshing. She has carved a niche for herself with an eye constantly trained to still newer paths. “Once I finish a project, I'm already thinking of the next one," she says, during a phone interview. But let us linger on Glass Song, before being swept away again. The album offers a set ...

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I Love Her Just The Way I Am

March 6, 2013

Album: Timetable
By Kevin Whalum
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 04:45

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Cultural Exchange

March 4, 2013

Album: Nyhavn Live
By Randy Simon Jazz Project
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Duration: 10:48

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Everything but the Boy

March 3, 2013

Album: A Riot Calls my Name
By RedEyeRiot Trevor Perfect
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 3:17

Article: Album Review

The Dave Lalama Big Band: The Hofstra Project

Read "The Hofstra Project" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 2, 2013

Pianist Dave Lalama is living proof that the divide between real-world practitioner and first-class educator is often imaginary. Lalama's résumé includes time spent with super singers like Eddie Jefferson and Anita O'Day, and big band icons like Road Father Woody Herman and super drummer Buddy Rich, but these performance credits don't tell the whole story about ...

Article: Album Review

Randy Simon Jazz Project: Nyhavn Live

Read "Nyhavn Live" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
March 2, 2013

As instrumentalists and established groups explore new musical vistas, there's somewhat of a “safe harbor" in the richness of classic hard bop. Perhaps that's because the repertoire and stylistic formats of drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, pianist Horace Silver and the like offer performers significant latitude in terms of groove, melodic and harmonic diversity, ...

Article: Album Review

Shamie Royston: Portraits

Read "Portraits" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 1, 2013

Pianist Shamie Royston shares more than familial bonds with her husband/drummer Rudy Royston and employer/sister/saxophonist Tia Fuller; she clearly shares their oft-demonstrated belief that music is about expressing oneself by placing your own personality and experiences into and onto your art. In truth, every artist worth their salt, knowingly or not, adheres to this philosophy in ...

Article: Album Review

Callum Au Big Band: Something's Coming

Read "Something's Coming" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
February 26, 2013

Trombonist and arranger Callum Au has amassed a remarkable wealth of experience, playing or arranging for, among others, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, the Oxford University Big Band (he graduated from the university in 2011), Seth MacFarlane and Buddy Greco. He's a busy man--a list of his projects suggests that he's discovered the secret of the ...

Article: Album Review

Kait Dunton: Mountain Suite

Read "Mountain Suite" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
February 24, 2013

The seeds for this project were planted when pianist/composer Kait Dunton jotted down a few measures of music while sojourning in the Canadian Rockies, but this passionate music actually sprung to life inside a recording studio in Pasadena, California. Dunton, a Los Angeles-based artist pursuing a doctorate at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of ...

Article: Album Review

Tine Bruhn: Nearness

Read "Nearness" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 22, 2013

With the rapid evolution of jazz in the past generation, a simple performance approach offers the benefit of showing from where we have come. Denmark-cum-New York City native vocalist Tine Bruhn joins pianist Johnny O'Neal (late of drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and vibraphonist Milt Jackson's band) and saxophonist Stacy Dillard for a collection of ten ...