Results for "Steve Million"

Steve Million featuring Sarah Marie Young: Jazz Words

by Richard J Salvucci
October 13, 2021

Evocative. Soulful. Regretful. Plaintive. But in no sense downbeat. Oddly edifying, joyful in places. Steve Million's compositions and Sarah Marie Young's voice were plainly intended to blend. And they do so in an emotionally stirring landscape of the heart which is powerfully affecting. You find yourself conjuring up quiet journeys, emotional and otherwise, from the past. ...

Steve Million: What I Meant to Say

by Jack Bowers
August 29, 2021

A word that springs to mind when listening to pianist Steve Million's quartet is “tasteful." If the music sounds congenial as well, that is probably because “four friends" are performing it. Two of them (guitarist Steve Cardenas, drummer Ron Vincent) were among the Kansas City-based friends who comprised Million's quartet in that city before he moved ...

Old Earl

July 29, 2021

Album: What I Meant to Say
By Steve Million
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 06:02

Steve Million

Trumpeter Art Davis, Drummer Tim Davis Join Merit School Of Music Tuition-free Conservatory

January 2, 2013

Well-known performing Chicago jazz artists are now sharing their musical experience and passion with a new generation at Merit School of Music in Chicago's West Loop. Newly-hired trumpeter Art Davis and drummer Tim Davis join a list of established jazz performers on faculty at Merit’s Alice S. Pfaelzer Tuition-free Conservatory, which offers college preparatory instruction free ...

Rob Parton: Rob Parton Quartet

by Jack Bowers
October 9, 2009

It's always a pleasure to welcome a new CD by the remarkably talented Chicago-based trumpeter Rob Parton, even one that is untitled and places Parton in a (mostly) quartet framework. The downside is that one can't hear Parton play lead trumpet, another area in which he excels, as any perusal of his superb (albeit recently demised) ...

Rob Parton: Rob Parton Quartet

by Edward Blanco
June 16, 2009

Chicago trumpeter Rob Parton has been leading his phenomenal JAZZTECH Big Band for the better part of two decades now, but it was four years of quartet gigs at the Catch 35 Restaurant and Club in Chicago that inspired Rob Parton Quartet. Parton began performing at the club in 2005 with his favorite longtime drummer Bob ...

Truth Is...

By Steve Million

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Right Pace. Wrong Key; Truth Is...; Terror of Toni Town; Fireflies; All The Things You Are; Perfectly Spaced; Shytown; Eiderdown; Nomadrigal; Blackwater; Ain

Steve Million: Truth Is...

by C. Michael Bailey
September 1, 1999

In A Monkish Mood. Chicago-area pianist Steve Million sends his third Palmetto release our way. Bubbling under the surface of true stardom, Million plays a no-nonsense brand of Hard Bop reflected off the mirror of the turn of the century. Roaming the halls of this music is the spirit of Thelonious Monk. Million’s opening original, “Right ...

Steve Million: Truth Is...

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 1999

I love the opening of pianist Steve Million’s new CD, wherein Steve and his sidemen seem to be searching for the “lost chord.” Oh, yes, they find it, and a number of others too in a session that is quirky, almost Monkish at times, but always melodious and consistently rewarding. The album’s title seems to imply ...