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James Carney Group: Ways & Means
by Jerry D'Souza
Keyboardist James Carney framed the compositions on this recording from a cinematic perspective. Three of the tunes are improvisations and Carney succeeds with both his stances. He and his artful band bring in plenty of drama, a sense of adventure and pure emotional force. Carney is an accomplished pianist who finds his groove in ...
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble: Eternal Interlude
by Mark F. Turner
Like fragments of crystal, John Hollenbeck's large ensemble casts angular lines, unusual shapes and refracts music (rather than light) differently than typical jazz big bands. The prolific drummer/composer's progressive slant has been at the core of The Claudia Quintet's For (Cuneiform, 2007) and Semi-Formal (Cuneiform, 2006); music marked by enigmatic ideas of swing, modern chamber music ...
Tony Malaby: Paloma Recio & Ancient and Future Airs
by David Adler
Tony MalabyPaloma RecioNew World Records2009 Paul DunmallAncient and Future AirsClean Feed2009 Paloma Recio ("loud dove"), the debut of saxophonist Tony Malaby's quartet of the same name, is marked by the ...
James Carney Group: Ways & Means
by Matt Marshall
It's good to see the jazz community is not shying away from pressing political and social issues of the day. Guitarist Brad Shepik, with his Human Activity Suite (Songlines, 2009), and drummer Alex Cline, with Continuation (Cryptogramophone, 2009), have both made musical pleas for the environment in 2009, following in the socially conscious footsteps of Max ...
Vision Festival 2009: Day 5
by John Sharpe
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 |Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Seth Meicht's Big Sound Ensemble / Bear and Eagle / Darius Jones Trio / Matthew Shipp / Rob Brown Trio / Milford Graves Quartet / Lisa Sokolov Trio / Joe Morris GoGo Mambo 14th Annual ...
Molde Jazz: Day 1, July 13, 2009
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Arve Henriksen Cartography / Bugge Wesseltoft Molde Jazz Molde, Norway July 13, 2009 Descending by plane into Molde airport, it's difficult not to be in awe of the geography surrounding ...
James Carney Group: Ways & Means
by Troy Collins
Inspired by his work scoring Edward Sloman's 1925 silent film, His People, for the Syracuse International Film Festival in 2006, New York-based keyboardist James Carney continued to explore the narrative potential of cinematic structures. Funded in part by commissions from Chamber Music America and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Carney produced Ways & Means, a virtual ...
Freihofer's Jazz Festival: One Great Weekend
by R.J. DeLuke
Freihofer's Jazz FestivalSaratoga Springs, New YorkJune 27-28, 2009Freihofer's Jazz Festival, in its 32nd year, provided an outstanding array of music and musicians and added to its legacy--started by George Wein in 1978--in fine fettle on June 27 and 28 in the upstate New York community of Saratoga Springs. For producer Danny ...
Chad McCullough: Playing to the Gig
by John Barron
Seattle trumpeter Chad McCullough has been working hard to garner a reputation in his hometown and beyond as a versatile, creative musician. McCullough has performed with a wide range of artists, including Jay Thomas, Claudio Roditi, Marc Seales, Thomas Marriott, Ingrid Jensen and Bob Florence. He's toured extensively with the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the jazz ...
John Hebert: Byzantine Monkey
by Nic Jones
Bassist John Hebert was a member of guitarist Mary Halvorson's trio that put out the memorable Dragon's Head on Firehouse 12 in 2008, while Michael Attias has recorded with guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil on Opium (2002) for CIMP, one of the most rewarding titles of the last ten years. This program thus has a lot to live ...


