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Article: Album Review

Jonathan Rowden: Jonathan Rowden Group: Becoming

Read "Jonathan Rowden Group: Becoming" reviewed by Paul Naser

by Paul Naser
June 6, 2014

Saxophonist Jonathan Rowden began playing as a young boy, but alongside his enthusiasm for music he nurtured a love for visual arts; in fact, he planned on being an animation and illustration major before he realized that music was his real passion. This artistic sensibility permeates Rowden's debut album and showcases his compositional strengths ...

Article: Album Review

Eric Revis: Eric Revis: In Memory Of Things Yet Seen

Read "Eric Revis: In Memory Of Things Yet Seen" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
June 6, 2014

Although the title to bassist Eric Revis' quartet offering appears to pay homage to some of the early AACM documents (think pianist Muhal Richard Abrams' unaccompanied manifesto Things To Come From Those Now Gone (Delmark, 1975)), the actuality is a different animal entirely. Having rung the changes since the acclaimed City of Asylum, Revis' outfit acts ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Saxophone Summit: Visitation

by John Kelman
June 6, 2014

After two recordings for Telarc--2004's Gathering of Spirits, with the late Michael Brecker, and 2008's Seraphic Light, with Ravi Coltrane assuming the position vacated by Brecker following his untimely passing the previous year--Saxophone Summit is back with Visitation. Funded by the (for jazz) early crowd-funding ArtistShare imprint, it demonstrates the difference between recording for a relatively ...

Article: Album Review

Glenn Zottola: The Bossa Nova Story, Glenn Zottola, Salutes Stan Getz

Read "The Bossa Nova Story, Glenn Zottola, Salutes Stan Getz" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 6, 2014

Trumpeter and saxophonist Glenn Zottola has been a serious part of the music business for more than four decades, recording thirty albums as a sideman and leader as well as adding Broadway and TV show musician to his resume. In 2014, Zottola decided to embark on the tribute circle recording a series of homage albums for ...

News: Event

SF MusicTech Announces Fall Date, May Be It's Last

June 6, 2014

SF MusicTech has announced that its next summit will be held on November 11th at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco. (Early registration is open here.) Sadly, this 16th must-attend gathering of the music and tech tribes may be the last. “We've been doing this for 7 years now, and while we love throwing Summits, they are ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 6-12

June 6, 2014

With the Twin Cities Jazz Festival just three weeks away, we seem to be steadily building toward that climax with a busy jazz weekend and beyond. Former AQ owner Kenny Horst returns to the trapset; the Dave King Trucking Company wraps up a Midwest tour; the festival's “pre-game" series in Saint Paul Libraries launches with a ...

News: Festival

Asheville Percussion Festival Announces 2014 Schedule Of Events

June 6, 2014

The third annual Asheville Percussion Festival returns to Western North Carolina on June 20-22, 2014. Hosted by renowned multi-percussionist River Guerguerian and Jazz recording artist Lizz Wright, the three-day percussive arts festival will feature workshops, panels and performances led by acclaimed musicians from a variety of drumming concentrations. The event takes place in the scenic mountain ...

News: Recording

Guitarist Steve Khan Returns With "Subtext" (Tone Center) - June 24 Release

June 6, 2014

With Subtext, the unique trajectory of Steve Khan’s musical story expands and evolves, while re-asserting its linkage to the broad sweep of a fascinating discography, one off to the side of conventional. In short, Khan’s body of recorded work affirms that common ideal and true ambition defining jazz artistry: to create a personal, identifiable voice.Ever the ...

Article: Album Review

Doc Stewart Big Band Resuscitation: Code Blue!

Read "Code Blue!" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 5, 2014

"Doc" is much more than a nickname to Chris Stewart: it's a profession. And straight-ahead jazz is far more than a pastime: it's a passion. For the past sixteen years, Doc Stewart's day gig has been ER physician at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Scottsdale, AZ. Long before that, however, Stewart was a working musician who ...

Article: Interview

Maud Hixson: Studying Scores and Moving Forward

by David Bittinger
June 5, 2014

Maud Hixson has built an accomplished career as a performer and recording artist out of unlikely circumstances. She grew up far from the capitals of jazz and vocal music, in the Twin Cities area. Doris Day's performance in the Ruth Etting biopic “Love Me Or Leave Me" served as a primary inspiration for a young Maud ...