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SFJAZZ Collective: Live SFJAZZ Center 2013 - The Music of Chick Corea & New Compositions
by John Kelman
Some things change, some things stay the same. After two successive recordings and tours with an identical lineup--a first in its now 10-year history--the SFJAZZ Collective once again undergoes some minor personnel shifts. More important, however, is that Live SFJAZZ Center 2013: The Music of Chick Corea & New Compositions comes a full two years after ...
SFJAZZ Collective: Live SFJAZZ Center 2013 - The Music of Chick Corea & New Compositions
Label: SFJAZZ
Released: 2013
Track listing: CD1: Spain; Rumble/City Gate; Let's Take a Trip to the Sky; Gibraltar; Space Circus; Home Is; La Fiesta. CD2: Matrix; 500 Miles High; Vegan Las Vegas; Incessant Desires; Grand Opening; Crystal Silence; Shifting Centers.
Dave Holland: Prism
by John Kelman
Two instruments that bassist Dave Holland has rarely incorporated into his projects have been piano and guitar, his only guitar-centric album coming sixteen years after his first release as a leader, Conference of the Birds (ECM, 1973), when he recruited Kevin Eubanks for a particularly powerful set on Extensions (ECM, 1989). It took Holland even longer--nearly ...
Edward Simon Trio: Live in New York at Jazz Standard
by John Kelman
Some artists maintain a busy release schedule, putting out an album a year--sometimes, in the case of musicians like guitarist Bill Frisell, even more frequently--while others, for a variety of reasons, are less prolific. Pianist Edward Simon has, in recent years, been issuing albums with broader distribution under his own name--which automatically discounts 2010's independently released ...
SFJAZZ Collective: Phoenix, AZ, March 21, 2013
by Patricia Myers
SFJAZZ CollectiveMusical Instrument MuseumPhoenix, AZMarch 21, 2013The SFJAZZ Collective delivered an intense contemporary-jazz performance that showcased the playing and composing skills of this stellar octet, sponsored since 2004 by the non-profit SFJAZZ.The Collective's ninth annual tour is celebrating the genius of Chick Corea--the sixth keyboardist to be honored by ...
Wonder: The Songs Of Stevie Wonder
Label: SFJAZZ
Released: 2012
Track listing: 1. Superstition – Stevie Wonder (arranged by Miguel Zenón*) 07:04;
2. Visions – Stevie Wonder (arranged by Stefon Harris) 06:07;
3. Race Babbling – Stevie Wonder (arranged by Robin Eubanks) 10:19;
4. Creepin' – Stevie Wonder (arranged by Matt Penman) 07:22;
5. Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder (arranged by Avishai Cohen) 8:24;
6. Blame It On The Sun – Stevie Wonder (arranged by Mark Turner) 7:11;
7. Do I Do – Stevie Wonder (arranged by Eric Harland**) 06:07;
8. My Cherie Amour – Stevie Wonder (arranged by Edward Simon***) 09:07.
More Than Meets The Ear
Featuring the music of SFJAZZ Collective
Duration: 11:21
Enjoy Jazz Festival: Heidelberg / Mannheim / Ludwigshafen, Germany, October 30-November 7, 2012
by John Kelman
2012 Enjoy Jazz FestivalHeidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, GermanyOctober 30-November 7, 2012After a week in northern Sweden covering the 2012 Umeå Jazz Festival--where the were days shortening and the temperature dropping--moving south to Heidelberg, Germany was a welcome respite from the oncoming onslaught of winter that's also approaching back home in Canada. For this year's coverage of ...
Avishai Cohen - Trumpet: Triveni II
by Dan Bilawsky
Trumpeter Avishai Cohen had already reached the upper echelons of the jazz world when he put Triveni into motion, but this trio's debut--Introducing Triveni (Anzic Records, 2010)--still managed to mark a quantum leap in his artistry. The Israeli-born horn man first made stateside ripples when he placed third in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Trumpet Competition in ...
Year of the Snake
by John Kelman
When a group of musicians works together more often in extracurricular configurations with other leaders, what do they do when they come together for their own project? In the case of saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard-- who, individually and collectively, have worked with everyone from pianist Brad Mehldau and guitarist Kurt ...
