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Article: Album Review

Steve Khan: Subtext

by Dan Bilawsky
June 5, 2014

Guitarist Steve Khan's latter day work has been increasingly focused on Latin jazz fusion of various shapes, so the scope and direction of Subtext should come as no surprise to his longtime followers. This album arrives three years after Parting Shot (Tone Center, 2011) and runs along similar lines. That one was an originals-heavy, percussively-coated session ...

Article: Extended Analysis

JC Sanford Orchestra: Views from the Inside

by Dan Bilawsky
June 5, 2014

Views From The Inside is a study in contrasts and opposing forces. It's a work of compression and expansion, sonic saturation and sparsity, and consonance and dissonance. It's music that's alternately grandiloquent and direct, pointing to a place where high art and simple emotional expression aren't at odds with one another. In short, it's everything that's ...

Article: Album Review

Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra: Travel Notes

Read "Travel Notes" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 5, 2014

Travel Notes, the seventh album by the Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra, is much like the first half-dozen: big-band jazz whose design and performance are as consistently strong and artistic as one can envision at any level. Tom Knific, WMU's director of Jazz Studies since 2000, has a keen ear for engaging songs, one of which ...

Article: Album Review

Michael Musillami Trio: Pride

by Karl Ackermann
June 5, 2014

With ten albums as a leader in his portfolio, guitarist and composer, Michael Musillami remains disproportionately under the radar in the public domain. Working in formats from duo to octet and inspired by classic artists like John Coltrane and Miles Davis, Musillami has a gifted touch for arranging the traditional and highly improvisational together in accessible ...

Article: Album Review

Jason Roebke: Combination

Read "Combination" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 5, 2014

Chicagoan double bassist Jason Roebke has developed a distinct sound of his own, intensely physical, audacious and highly rhythmical. He leads and plays in bands on both sides of the Atlantic, including the trans-Atlantic The Whammies dedicated to the music of Steve Lacy, and drummer Mike Reed's People, Places and Things. Roebke's ...

Article: Lyrics

I 10 Cd nel CD-Player di... Mary Halvorson

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 5, 2014

01. Bill Orcutt--A History of Every One (Editions Mego--2013). Lo stile chitarristico di Bill Orcutt è folle, bluesy e assolutamente unico. Questo nuovo disco è sorprendente. 02. Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog--Your Turn (Northern Spy--2013). Ho atteso questo disco a lungo. Costruito perfettamente cattura l'energia e la temerarietà della band.

News: Performance / Tour

Blue Note Jazz Festival: World Premiere Brad Mehldau & Christian McBride Produced By Jill Newman Productions

June 5, 2014

Blue Note Jazz Festival & Jill Newman Productions World Premiere Brad Mehldau & Christian McBride - June 6 - 8, 2014 Pianist Brad Mehldau will replace pianist André Previn at Blue Note Jazz Club, 131 West 3rd Street, New York, NY, Friday, June 6 through Sunday, June 8, as part of the 2014 Blue Note Jazz ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Standard Announces July Schedule Of Concerts

June 5, 2014

JULY @ JAZZ STANDARD Features James Cotton Band, Charles McPherson Quintet, Sean Jones Quartet, Donald Harrison Quintet with Special Guest Steve Turre, Kenny Barron Quartet featuring Stefon Harris New York City, NY: JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nation’s premier jazz clubs, offers another impressive month of music with jazz legends and rising stars throughout July. Blues ...

Article: Live Review

Martin Wind Quartet at Kitano

by Victor L. Schermer
June 4, 2014

Martin Wind Quartet Jazz at Kitano New York, NY May 31, 2014 It was a clear, warm late spring evening in Manhattan, and Jazz at Kitano, by now a familiar part of the New York nightclub scene, provided a perfect setting for a CD release event, a place with great ...

Article: Extended Analysis

No Pews Required: Chris McDonald Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
June 4, 2014

A glance at the name and song titles on Chris McDonald's new album might lead to an assumption that this is a Christian manifesto masquerading as big-band jazz, when in fact the reverse is true--McDonald, a superlative arranger, happens to be a man of faith who uses Christian themes as the basis for some of the ...