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The New York Standards Quartet: The New Straight Ahead
by Bruce Lindsay
The New York Standards Quartet (aka the NYSQ) formed around 2006, its members sharing a love of standards played with a contemporary edge. This, the band's fourth album, is called The New Straight Ahead. As band name and album title suggest, this is a collection of straight-ahead standards, given new arrangements and redesigns" by the quartet. ...
IN Trio: Defining Moment
by Dan Bilawsky
The focus of piano-less trio records, right or wrong, is inevitably placed on the inherent freedom of the format. But what of those who simply want to try out said grouping without purposely using it as a springboard to uncertainty and complete openness? Such groups are a rarity, receiving short shrift in the jazz press and ...
David Berkman: Anecdotes
by George Colligan
[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth] David Berkman is a jazz pianist who in the past few decades has played with many of the major names in jazz, including Tom Harrell, Cecil McBee, and the Vanguard Orchestra. He has released a number of CDs on the Palmetto ...
Americas
By Paul Beaudry
Label: Soundkeeper Recordings
Released: 2012
Track listing: Maria; Harmonia Mundi; El Bananero; O Que É Amar; El Pañuelo De Pepa; D'Leau; Every Time Ah Pass;
Zamba Alegre; Nicaragua Nicaraguita
Mel Martin and His Tenor Conclave: Piermont, NY, September 14, 2012
by David A. Orthmann
Mel Martin and his Tenor ConclaveThe Turning Point CafePiermont, NYSeptember 14, 2012 Before the first note sounded in a seventy-five minute set by Mel Martin and his Tenor Conclave, there was a false start of sorts. Most of the band was assembled and ready to hit when they were asked ...
Michael Janisch receives prestigious Arts Council Touring Grant for April UK Tour featuring Tim Armacost, Gene Jackson and David Berkman
Acoustic Bassist and Whirlwind Recordings label boss Michael Janisch has just been awarded a prestigious Touring Grant by the Arts Council England for his major April 2012 UK tour featuring three marquee New York based musicians in saxophonist Tim Armacost (Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Tom Harrell), pianist David Berkman (Joe Lovano, Brian Blade) and drummer Gene Jackson ...
Unstandard
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: How High The Moon; Polka Beamlet; All The Things You Are; Polka Beamlet #2; Stablemates; But Beautiful; Lunar; Interplay; Two Meetings; The Ballet Girl Stirs (by Starlight); After Thought; Summer Nights; Polka Beamlet #3.
New York Standards Quartet: Unstandard
by Larry Taylor
It's a pleasure when a group of great jazz players take American standards and reshape them with their own unique stamp. This happens on New York Standards Quartet's Unstandard, where the musical gambit--the direction these musicians take the originals--is often surprising. Pianist David Berkman leads the way, handling arrangements and contributing originals, all the ...
Emilio Solla & The Tango Jazz Conspiracy: Bien Sur!
by Dan McClenaghan
The music on Bien Sur! carries the tag Tango Jazz," but pianist/composer Emilio Solla, leader of the Tango Jazz Conspiracy that is responsible for the sound, says he has no idea what that is. The Argentine-born and now New York-based artist has been introducing himself to American audiences in a world msic vein over the course ...
Emilio Solla & The Tango Jazz Conspiracy: Bien Sur!
by Dan Bilawsky
"Tango Jazz," like virtually every other genre-descriptor, is a convenient tag used to categorize what, ultimately, is better understood through listening. Emilio Solla, along with musicians like Pablo Aslan and Pablo Ziegler, are at the forefront of this style. Solla says it best when he explains that the tango" portion of the title usually refers to ...


