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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 ...
Big Bands: Fred Ho, Roy Hargrove, Brooklyn Big Band, Charles Tolliver
by Brandt Reiter
Fred Ho and the The Green Monster Big Band Celestial Green Monster Mutable Music2009 Roy HargroveEmergenceGroovin' High2009 Brooklyn Big Band Live at Sweet Rhythm Candid2009
Glenn Cashman / UAB SuperJazz / Elliot Deutsch Big Band / Russ Spiegel Jazz Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Glenn Cashman And the Southland Big Band! Primrose Lane Music 2009 Even though Glenn Cashman's superlative Southland Big Band makes its home (technically) south of the Mason-Dixon Line, it is more than a few miles removed from cotton fields, mint juleps and the Mississippi River--to be more precise, in the ...
The Russ Spiegel Jazz Orchestra: Transplants
by Edward Blanco
Veteran jazz guitarist Russ Spiegel has always had an affinity for big band music, from his days of performing with the European-based Landes Jugend Jazz Orchester Hessen, The Bill Warfield Big Band, and his own Russ Spiegel Big Band, comprised of top German and international musicians. He continues his love affair of progressive ensemble music on ...
Tim Armacost: Rhythm and Transformation
by Donald Elfman
Saxophonist/composer Tim Armacost spent a year in Delhi starting in 1993 studying Hindustani rhythms. In 2002, he received a grant from Chamber Music America to write a suite that places these rhythms in a jazz context. The result is the title suite of this remarkable album. Two of the players on the disc--pianist Bruce Barth and ...
Tim Armacost with Matt Wilson-Monday Jazz at the Turning Point Cafe, Piermont, NY
MONDAY JAZZ at the Turning Point Cafe Piermont, N.Y. Great atmosphere, menu, and prices Jazz Every Monday 8pm-11pm Monday January 14, 2008 Saxophonist Tim Armacost Quartet Matt Wilson, drums, Mike McGuirk, bass Matt Shulman, trumpet Mondays January 21, 28 Saxophonist John Richmond ...
The Russ Spiegel Jazz Orchestra: Transplants
By Russ Spiegel
Label: RuzzTone Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: Count Up
The Very Thought of You
Kangaroo
Number One
Chain Reaction
Undertow
I Let a Song Out of My Heart
The Rub
I Should Care
