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Sharp As Shark’s Teeth: The Hammerheaded Quintet

by Gloria Krolak
May 31, 2014

Dan Weeks, Ph.D, wears many hats: published poet (six books), professor of philosophy, assistant research professor at Rutgers University, and drummer of no slight talent. Yet, he insists he's not the leader of the Hammerheaded Quintet. Nor is the leader guitarist Chuck Welch, saxophonist Anthony Ware, trumpeter Ted Chubb or bassman Mike Noordzy. But Weeks is ...

News: Recording

Saxophonist Lenny Pickett Releases Second Album Of Storied 40+ Year Career, The Prescription, With Finnish UMO Jazz Orchestra On Random Act Records

May 31, 2014

It’s remarkable that The Prescription marks only the second album as a leader for Lenny Pickett, the renowned tenor saxophonist and E-flat clarinetist who was a seminal horn- section member of the pop/funk band Tower of Power from 1972-1981, and has been a member of the Saturday Night Live band since 1985 and its musical director ...

News: Recording

Pianist Bobby Avey To Release Authority Melts From Me, A Three-Part Suite Exploring Haitian Vodou Drumming & Its Role In Haitian Revolution

May 31, 2014

Pianist Bobby Avey is an emerging star on the international jazz scene. In 2005, while a student at the Purchase Conservatory of Music, Avey was invited by NEA Jazz Master David Liebman to adapt and arrange art songs from the Classical and Romantic eras for reinterpretation creating a vehicle for improvisation. The project, which culminated with ...

News: Recording

Guitarist Ross Hammond Releases Humanity Suite on Prescott Recordings

May 31, 2014

Featuring Vinny Golia, Catherine Sikora, Dax Compise, Clifford Childers & Kerry Kashiwaga History may be written by the winners, but it can be rewritten by anyone courageous enough to speak truth to power. Guitarist Ross Hammond‘s new record, Humanity Suite, on Prescott Recordings, is a powerful statement, both musically and historically, taking its starting point from ...

Article: Album Review

Ernie Watts: A Simple Truth

Read "A Simple Truth" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
May 30, 2014

The title of Ernie Watt's seventh release on his Flying Dolphin label reflects the tenor great's guiding philosophy, as he explained in a recent interview for dublinjazz.ie: “We are creating our reality all day every day by the thoughts that we think and by the things that we say and by our belief systems. It's a ...

Article: Interview

The Passion of Lorenzo Tucci

by Robin Arends
May 30, 2014

Drummer Lorenzo Tucci is an important part of the thriving Italian jazz scene and a musician drawn to experimental settings. He recorded Drumonk (Veneto Jazz, 2007) his tribute to Thelonious Monk without piano, and a piano-trio album, Tranety (Albore Jazz, 2010), dedicated to John Coltrane without a saxophonist. In the 1990s Tucci started his professional carreer ...

Article: Album Review

King William Jazz Collective: King William Jazz Collective

Read "King William Jazz Collective" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 30, 2014

About four years before this splendid album was recorded, the King William Jazz Collective performed its first gig in San Antonio's historic King William district. While that alone could be impetus enough on which to hang a name, there's more, as the band's baritone saxophonist / music director happens to be King, William (at least in ...

Article: Book Review

Wail: The Life of Bud Powell by Peter Pullman

by C. Michael Bailey
May 30, 2014

Wail: The Life of Bud Powell Peter Pullman 483 Pages ISBN-13: # 978-0985141813 (print) ASIN: B0079NR9IC (ebook) Peter Pullman, LLC 2012 The best biographies are well researched and annotated without being pedantic, informative without browbeating the reader and objective without indifference, or worse, malice. There exists excellent ...

Article: Album Review

Tatsuya Nakatani & Shane Perlowin: Anatomy of a Moment

Read "Anatomy of a Moment" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
May 30, 2014

On Anatomy of a Moment, Aleuchatistas guitarist Shane Perlowin joins the legendary percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani for a series of duets that are as perplexing as they are beautiful. Sticking largely to fingerstyle acoustic guitar, Perlowin's controlled and tightly parameterized improvising stands in stark contrast to Nakatani's varied and unpredictable sound experiments. While his playing in the ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jamaican-British Soul-Jazz Chanteuse Zara McFarlane Makes Debut U.S. Tour In Support Of "If You Knew Her"

May 30, 2014

If You Knew Her, Released in Early 2014 on Peterson’s Soul-Inflected Brownswood Recordings Is Already One of 2014′s Most Acclaimed Recordings It’s a tough task for music critics to write about a singer that genuinely knocks their socks off. Zara McFarlane is the London based singer, who, in 2011 released Until Tomorrow, a debut album that ...