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Dan Cray: Meridies
by Dan Bilawsky
Change is never easy, but it's often the key to growing as a person and an artist. Pianist Dan Cray has released a series of well-received CDs and carved out a comfortable musical existence with his trio in Chicago, but he understood that a change of scenery and a jump into jazz's deep end would do ...
Andrea Veneziani Trio: Oltreoceano
by Dan McClenaghan
Since the advent of pianist Bill Evans' groundbreaking late 1950s/early 1960s group with drummer Paul Motian and bassist Scott LaFaro, piano trios have been largely focused on interplay. On his debut, Oltreoceano, Italian-born bassist Andrea Veneziani employs a trio very much in the Evans fashion, with pianist Kenny Werner (with whom Veneziani studied in the NYU ...
Los Angeles-Based Jazz Vocalist Sara Leib Releases 2nd CD, "Secret Love," March 20
At its core, jazz is a music of personal expression, a concept that singer Sara Leib clearly embraces. On her new CD, Secret Love—due out March 20 on OA2 Records—the glowing-toned mezzo-soprano gives an array of classic and contemporary material fresh, distinctive sounds. One way that Los Angeles native Leib gives a new slant to her ...
Trumpeter Terence Blanchard Guests with the Award-Winning Jazzschool Studio Bands, March 25 at el Cerrito High School Theatre
The Jazzschool Monday and Thursday Night Studio Bands, under the direction of Keith Johnson, serve as some of the region's most important proving grounds for ambitious high school musicians. For the last four years, they've been selected as finalists at the Next Generation Festival (sponsored by the Monterey Jazz Festival), and the Monday Night Band achieved ...
"Meridies," 5th CD by Pianist/Composer Dan Cray, Due March 20 on Origin Records
Pianist/composer Dan Cray's first four CDs—trio recordings featuring his Chicago-based threesome of bassist Clark Sommers and drummer Greg Wyser-Pratte—built their repertoires around enticing cover versions of standards and jazz classics. Now with Cray's bold new disc, Meridies, due out March 20 on Origin Records, the Chicago-area native has expanded his trio—here with Sommers and drummer Mark ...
Armen Donelian: Consummate Musician
by R.J. DeLuke
Consistency of excellence is an extraordinary thing in music--particularly improvised music, where taking chances, however satisfying, can be risky. The daredevil on the tightrope might amaze onlookers. But he also might fall.61 year-old pianist Armen Donelian, a New York City native who now lives in upstate New York but who has traveled the globe ...
L.A.-Based Jazz Vocalist Judy Wexler Announces May Dates in New York and Boston
Los Angeles vocalist Judy Wexler, whose third CD Under a Painted Sky was released last year to glowing notices, will be making a rare East Coast foray in May. Her Boston debut will take place on Wednesday 5/9 at Scullers, and she's scheduled a return visit to New York City, where she's performed on several previous ...
Bassist Andrea Veneziani Debuts on CD March 13 with "Oltreoceano"
Bassist Andrea Veneziani followed his musical dreams from Rome to New York in the summer of 2009, and those dreams are made manifest with the release on March 13 of his ravishing debut CD Oltreoceano ("Overseas"). A trio session with pianist Kenny Werner and drummer Ross Pederson, the disc is a striking introduction to the gifts ...
First Annual "Women in Jazz" Events Scheduled in March at the Jazzschool, Berkeley
The Jazzschool will kick off two annual events next month—a festival and a jazz and blues camp—highlighting the accomplishments and aspirations of women in jazz. “Our goal is to provide visibility for the large community of wonderful women jazz instrumentalists in the Bay Area," says trumpeter Ellen Seeling, who is co-producing both events with saxophonist Jean ...
Chris Brubeck's Triple Play: Live at Arthur Zankel Music Center
by C. Michael Bailey
When considering something as seriously artistic as jazz, it is often overlooked that said music is to be enjoyed as well as appreciated. The key operative in enjoy is joy, and multi- instrumentalist Chris Brubeck and his merry band Tripleplay are obviously full of it. Live at Arthur Zankel Music Center was recorded at Skidmore College ...
