Results for "Steeplechase Records"

Jack Walrath: Ballroom

by Francis Lo Kee
February 16, 2009

Jack Walrath not only displays tremendous trumpet playing, a rich and varied approach to composition and wonderful band, he also puts something into this fantastic CD that's missing from too much new jazz: a sense of fun and humor. That's not to say that it isn't sensitive and touching at times--"An Hour Blessed" is arguably as ...

Christian Winther: Soul House

by John Barron
January 30, 2009

Influenced by tenor saxophone giants Charlie Rouse, Paul Gonsalvez and Dexter Gordan, Danish-born musician Christian Winther improvises with a soulful, hard-bop edge, reveling in the joyous traditions associated with his instrument. The New Orleans-based saxophonist assembles a spirited quintet for Soul House, his third release as a leader. Winther's deep-toned tenor lines are well developed with ...

Jed Levy: Evans Explorations

by Elliott Simon
January 18, 2009

Explorations (Riverside, 1961) is one of two landmark studio recordings from the Bill Evans trio that, through chordal voicings, a classically-based style and egalitarian instrumental interplay, moved the jazz piano trio toward impressionism and away from a rhythmic approach. It still sounds amazingly contemporary and the task that tenor saxophonist Jed Levy has set for himself ...

Stained Glass

By Bill Gerhardt

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Visitor; Little Penny; Paragraph; Words; Stained Glass; Video Tapes and Lies; Holding Noa.

Groovin' Poppers

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2008

Breeze

By Eliot Zigmund

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2008

Wonderland

By Harold Danko

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2008

Andrew Rathbun: Affairs of State

by Stuart Broomer
September 1, 2008

Andrew Rathbun is a Canadian-born tenor saxophonist resident in New York, a Brooklyn regular who has garnered support from fellow tenorists Joe Lovano and Dave Liebman as well as trumpeter Kenny Wheeler. That should give some sense of Rathbun's lineage. He's a thoughtful player and--true to the influence of Wheeler (and Booker Little) and the mid-'60s ...

Bill Gerhardt: Stained Glass

by George Kanzler
March 10, 2008

Although Cotangent plays gigs in New York, the band is also a cogent example of the fecundity to be found in regional and international jazz. Pianist Bill Gerhardt and bassist Mike Holstein are charter members of the Jazz Composers Forum, an organization based in Asheville, North Carolina. Tenor saxophonist Marc Mommaas, now Big Apple-based, hails from ...

Chimera

By Russ Spiegel

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Chimera; Polychrome World; The Last March; Cherokee; Wo Bleibt Die Seele; Good Night; Herr Boehnke.