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Take Five With Daniel Ian Smith

by AAJ Staff
Meet Daniel Ian Smith: Daniel Ian Smith is a saxophonist/flutist and an Associate Professor at the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, where he has taught for the past fifteen years. Daniel has had the privilege to perform in Japan, England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the United States in major jazz festivals ...
hatOLOGY Reissue Bonanza Continues

by Mark Corroto
Begun in 1975, Hat Hut Records was to become the model for adventurous, independent, new music labels such as Okka Disk, AUM Fidelity and Clean Feed. From the start, founder Werner X. Uehlinger sought out challenging and innovative musicians and music that might have been too risky for major labels to produce. This very small Swiss ...
Steve Lacy: November

by Mark Corroto
Even without the back story of November, the music of soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy exists on its own merits. Compare this live recording to the two dozen-plus solo sessions by this master, and it stands up to any of them. Not that Lacy was in his finest form here, having been diagnosed with liver ...
Steve Lacy: Let’s Call This…Esteem; Hall Egg Farm 2000.10.16; November and Ideal Bread's Transmit

by Andrey Henkin
Steve Lacy/Mal WaldronLet's Call This...EsteemSLAM-Silta2010 Steve LacyHall Egg Farm 2000.10.16Suigyu2010 Steve LacyNovemberIntakt2010 Ideal BreadTransmitCuneiform2010
David Haney: Blue Flint Girl and Live from Yoshi's

by Clifford Allen
David Haney TrioBlue Flint GirlCIMP2009 The David Haney CollectiveLive from Yoshi'sCadence Jazz Records2009 The center of the jazz world is still considered to be Gotham, even though one can pretty ...
Steve Lacy - November (Intakt)

As catalysts to a host of conflicting emotions, final recordings commonly carry more baggage than those that come prior. Sometimes the results are heartbreakingly catastrophic, as with the case with Lester Young's last foray in front of microphones in Paris. Other swan songs reflect still triumphal talents cut abruptly short. Steve Lacy's last solo concert falls ...
Ideal Bread: Transmit: Vol. 2 of The Music of Steve Lacy

by Troy Collins
Baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton graduated from pupil to sideman following his studies with Steve Lacy at the New England Conservatory, performing with the late soprano saxophone legend and serving as his copyist. After Lacy's passing in 2004, Sinton founded Ideal Bread as a repertory group in his honor, dedicated to performing his former teacher's rarely covered ...
Multi-Reedist Steve Norton Interviewed at AAJ

Multi-reedist Steve Norton is best known for his work with the 1990s Boston-based band Debris. Debris was an ambitious, exuberant, puzzling band that puzzled together serialism, free jazz and funk. Their music is in equal measure exhilarating and exhausting. It was the combination, in part, that burned Norton out about ten years ago, as well as ...
Steve Norton: Debris and Beyond

by Gordon Marshall
Multi-reedist Steve Norton is best known for his work with the 1990s Boston-based band Debris. Debris was an ambitious, exuberant, puzzling band that puzzled together serialism, free jazz and funk. Their music is in equal measure exhilarating and exhausting. It was the combination, in part, that burned Norton out about ten years ago, as ...
Chad Eby: Broken Shadows

by Raul d'Gama Rose
On Broken Shadows his wonderful second album, Chad Eby doffs his proverbial hat to the magnificent American music that came before him and in doing so, puts it in the current context. He also goes a step further, adding not only his own vocal-style interpretations of music from Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Thad Jones, Ornette Coleman ...