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Justin Janer: Following Signs
by Dan Bilawsky
While people might want to pigeonhole alto saxophonist Justin Janer as a Latin jazz player, Following Signs paints him as a musician and composer with a broad outlook that goes past generic stylistic markers. Janer occupied the lead alto chair when percussionist Bobby Sanabria delivered the goods with the Manhattan School of Music's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra ...
Thomson Kneeland: Mazurka for the Modern Man
by Woodrow Wilkins
It is unfortunate when a person dies prematurely, and even more so when the death is by suicide. It makes for a bittersweet experience when listening to Mazurka for a Modern Man, by acoustic bassist Thomson Kneeland. Drummer Take Toriyama had been working with Kneeland almost weekly for ten years. He ended his life two weeks ...
Dana Lauren: It's You Or No One
by Dan Bilawsky
At the age of 21, vocalist Dana Lauren has a command of her instrument that many professional singers twice her age would envy. Lauren has a voice that's one part Roberta Gambarini and one part Diana Krall, with a dash of soul thrown in to spice things up, and she puts it good use on this ...
Wayne Brasel: If You Would Dance
by Dan Bilawsky
Guitarist Wayne Brasel's music reflects the West Coast lifestyle--or at least the stereotype that most people have of sunny California living. His clear, cleanly articulated guitar lines speak of gentle evenings by the water, and he has assembled a great cast of musicians to help shape these languorous compositions. Brasel and Peter Erskine have been acquainted ...
Pianist/Composer John Escreet Releases New CD "Don't Fight the Inevitable" on Mythology Records.
Don't Fight The Inevitable is pianist/composer John Escreet's eagerly awaited follow up to his award-winning debut album Consequences. The new recording features David Binney (alto saxophone/electronics), Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Matt Brewer (double bass) and Nasheet Waits (drums). Escreet's sophomore release contains all new original material with the only exception being an inventive reinterpretation of Muhal Richard ...
Contact Releases Five on One - Liebman, Abercrombie, Copland, Gress, and Hart
Pirouet Records PIT3048 Release date: May 2010 Contact: Five on One Dave Liebman - saxophone John Abercrombie - guitar Marc Copland - piano Drew Gress - bass Billy Hart - drums Five on the way to one. Five in one. Five on the same ...
Bassist Michael Janisch to Record Live Album with Lee Konitz at Pizza Express Jazz Club, London on May 19 and 20.
Michael Janisch who is a composer, bandleader, and curator of a monthly creative jazz residency at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club will be performing with the Legendary Lee Konitz along with Dan Tepfer (Piano) and Jeff Williams (Drums) on May 19 and 20, 2010 in a two house per night showing. These series of concerts will ...
Alper Yilmaz: Over The Clouds
by Mark F. Turner
If Alper Yilmaz's 2007 debut Clashes (Kayique Records) was a precursor, then his sophomore release Over The Clouds solidifies the Turkish-born bassist as a force to be reckoned with. With an electric bass as his axe of choice, he delivers muscularity and ingenuity in the vein of the great Jaco Pastorius and present day players like ...
Brandon Wright: Boiling Point
by Woodrow Wilkins
It's never a bad thing when an artist emerges with a collection of more original music than remakes of standards. And when the covers are unique arrangements, or of songs not copied ad nauseam, so much the better, as is the case with saxophonist Brandon Wright's Boiling Point. Wright, originally from Woodcliff Lake, New ...
Jean-Michel Pilc: True Story
by Joel Roberts
Paris-born pianist Jean-Michel Pilc continues his impressive series of Dreyfus Jazz releases with True Story, his first album since 2006's New Dreams and the debut effort for his exciting new trio featuring respected veteran drummer Billy Hart and talented Russian-born bassist Boris Kozlov. The 49-year-old Pilc, a resident of New York for the past 15 years, ...
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