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Ellis Marsalis Quartet: An Open Letter to Thelonious
by Woodrow Wilkins
To many, he is the patriarch of America's most celebrated jazz family. But to those who've heard him play, he's a talent not to be overlooked. Ellis Marsalis is one of the most respected among the New Orleans-based jazz artists. A former Marine, he played the circuit in New Orleans before hooking up with ...
The Ben Wolfe Octet at The Jazz Standard, NYC
by Budd Kopman
The Ben Wolfe Octet at The Jazz Standard, NYCThe Jazz StandardNew York City, New YorkJune 4, 2008 Bassist Ben Wolfe took the stage on this night to present music from his new release on MaxJazz, No Strangers Here. As usual for CD release gigs, a lot of press was present ...
Tobias Gebb & Trio West: An Upper West Side Story
by Woodrow Wilkins
After a 1997 Christmas recording debut, Trio West is back. This time, An Upper West Side Story features the threesome of Tobias Gebb on drums, Neal Miner on bass and Eldad Zvulun on piano, with a little help from their friends, saxophonist Joel Frahm and vocalist Champian Fulton. Trio West plays extensively on the ...
Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra: Song for Chico
by Woodrow Wilkins
There's a man doesn't care about labels or genres. He's mainly interested in two things: horns and percussion. It follows that one type of music pleases him more than any other: Latin jazz. Song for Chico, by Arturo O'Farrill and The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, is right up this man's alley. Pianist and music director ...
Ted Kooshian: Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet
by Michael P. Gladstone
Getting past the sci-fi cover artwork of this album, there's some pretty diverting jazz within. Pianist Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet has a different spin on the music. The thematic concept is to play music from animated Saturday morning television science fiction broadcasts of yore. In order to complement the aforementioned seven themes, Kooshian his group ...
Sylvia Bennett, Aniya, Lauren White, Perez: A Quartet of Standards
by C. Michael Bailey
Standards are still the bread and butter of jazz. Whether from Tin Pan Alley's American songbook or specifically composed as jazz and assimilated into the jazz repertoire, the standard offers musicians a proven, tried and true vehicle with which to ply their artistic trade. This is never more the case than in the realm of jazz ...
Hans Glawischnig: Panorama
by Michael P. Gladstone
Bassist Hans Glawischnig was born in Graz, Austria in 1970, to an American mother and Austrian father, Dieter Glawischnig, a well-respected pianist and conductor who led the NDR Big Band for Chet Baker. The younger Glawischnig has been a New Yorker since the early 1990s and now brings his second release Panorama, following his debut recording, ...
Bill O'Connell's Triple Play Coming to the Jazz Standard - June 17th, 2008
Pianist & Composer Bill O'Connell will be performing with his Triple Play Trio (featuring Dave Valentin) at The Jazz Standard in New York on Tuesday July 17th, 2008. The performance is in celebration of his new Savant Recording “Triple Play" - Set Times are 7:30 PM & 9:30 PM Bill O'Connell's Triple Play: Bill ...
An Upper West Side Story: Tobias Gebb & Trio West
by Jerry D'Souza
After an acclaimed and successful outing with their debut CD Trio West Plays Holiday Songs (Yummy House Records, 2006), Trio West is back with An Upper Westside Story, a recording that should bring them up front and center once again. Tobias Gebb (drummer, composer, arranger) has a knack for stimulating the progression of through-composed pieces with ...
Ben Wolfe Celebrates New Release "No Strangers Here" at NY's Jazz Standard on June 3rd, 2008
Bassist/Composer & Bandleader Ben Wolfe will be performing with his Octet at The Jazz Standard in New York on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 in celebration of his latest MAXJAZZ release No Strangers Here. Sets are 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM. Ben Wolfe Octet: Ben Wolfe - bass/composer Marcus Strickland - saxophone
