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Take Five With Franck Amsallem
by AAJ Staff
Meet Franck Amsallem: Mickey Mac: Franck Amsallem has been a professional pianist and composer for over 30 years. As a leader he has released seven cds, all of which have received rare critical acclaim. His sideman credits have included some of the great names in jazz: Gerry Mulligan, Charles Lloyd, Gary Bartz, Sonny Fortune, Bobby Watson, ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort
by Jakob Baekgaard
Even though jazz is an improvised art that's bursting with the unexpected, some groups stand out as being especially adventurous and wild. In terms of anarchy of sound, Mostly Other People Do the Killing is in a class of its own. On their fourth effort, Forty Fort, the group descends further into musical ...
Gene Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Hank Jones: For the Love of Ivory
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
These CDs have two major things in common: they each represent the very best of jazz piano, and they're both recorded live, with appreciative audiences whose rapture is contagious. With no studio fixes and no second chances, they also provide that pure, breathless excitement that comes from working without a net. Gene Harris ...
Eri Yamamoto: In Each Day, Something Good
by John Sharpe
For her third outing under the Aum Fidelity banner, Japanese pianist Eri Yamamoto is back in the company of her long time trio featuring bassist Dave Ambrosio and drummer Ikuo Takeuchi. This is their sixth release together; not bad going for someone who had never played jazz before her 1995 visit to New York City, when ...
Milt Jackson & The Jazz Giants, Bean Bags Plus Bags' Opus
By Milt Jackson
Label: Phoenix Records (15)
Released: 2009
Track listing: Close Your Eyes; Stuffy; Don't Take Your Love From Me; Get Happy; Sandra's Blues; Indian Blues; Ill Wind; Blues For Diahann; Afternoon In Paris; I Remember Clifford; Thinking Of You; Whisper Not;
Live in Marciac 1993
Label: TCB Records (2)
Released: 2009
Track listing: Intro by André Francis; Tommy Flanagan + Rhythm Section; Con Man; I Waited For You; Tin Tin Deo; Epistrophy; Hank Jones + Rhythm Section; Speak Low; Polkadots & Moonbeans; Bluesette; Recorda Me; Intro by Tommy Flanagan; Duo; Our Delight; A Child Is Born; Confirmation; Duo + Rhythm Section; Moose the Mooche; Blue Monk; Relaxing At Camarillo;
Christian McBride: Getting the Inside Straight
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
If we think about it for a little while, it's possible to believe that there is something almost mystic and undeniably powerful about jazz. The way it developed through the years and its constant ignition-like energy; the creativity of those who lead the way and those who continue the journey today; the improvisation that takes over ...
Hank Jones / Oliver Jones: Pleased To Meet You
by Raul d'Gama Rose
What a surprise to hear the first-ever recording that joins piano maestros Hank Jones and Oliver Jones. A Detroit native, ninety-year-old Hank Jones is from the family that gave us Thad “Bartok with Wings" Jones and polyrhythmist Elvin Jones, and he has participated in historic bebop sessions with Charlie Parker and memorable duets ...
Gerald Wilson Orchestra / Dallas Original Jazz Orchestra / University of North Texas Two O'Clock Lab Band
by Jack Bowers
Gerald Wilson Orchestra Detroit Mack Avenue Records 2009 Composer / arranger / ageless wonder Gerald Wilson, most of whose recent albums (Monterey Moods; New York, New Sound; Theme for Monterey; State Street Sweet) have been built around sectional themes, returns “home" on Detroit to paint an earnest musical ...
Fred Hersch: No Limits
by Maxwell Chandler
From the start of his career as a sideman in the 1970s for such jazz luminaries as Joe Henderson, Art Farmer and Stan Getz to his own ensembles and solo projects, there has always been a great diversity and intensity to Fred Hersch's art. Having won a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition (2003) and having been ...
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