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Article: Album Review

Dan Weiss: Fourteen

Read "Fourteen" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 24, 2014

While the ear essentially functions the same way for everybody, all people don't process sound in the same fashion. Experiences shape the way each and every person takes in what they hear. Some tend to focus in on a single sound, others key in on conversational concepts, and then there are those who are big picture ...

Article: Book Review

Chet Baker: The Missing Years by Artt Frank

by C. Michael Bailey
March 24, 2014

Chet Baker: The Missing Years Artt Frank 234 Pages ISBN: # 978-0-9887687-4-1 BooksEndependent 2014 Baker attracts positive and negative criticism like a celebrity black hole--the artist as hero and antihero. When considering Baker, you consider no one else. From “On The Banks of the Jabbok with Chet ...

Article: Album Review

Nicky Schrire: To The Spring

Read "To The Spring" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
March 24, 2014

It's brief--barely 30 minutes long--and released only in digital form, but To The Spring packs plenty into its allotted time span. This is the third release from singer and songwriter Nicky Schrire. It's another excellent release, her voice framed by the sparse but sympathetic piano and bass of Fabian Almazan and Desmond White. Schrire's ...

Article: Album Review

Tim Hegarty: Tribute

by Dan Bilawsky
March 24, 2014

Tim Hegarty's Tribute is an audible panegyric on the great saxophonist-composers. It's a well-crafted, straightforward date that highlights Hegarty's love for those who've come before and the work that they've done on paper and on record. The list of saxophonists that Hegarty has studied includes George Coleman, Jimmy Heath, Frank Foster, Joe Henderson, ...

Article: Album Review

Greg Nathan: I'll Think Of Something

Read "I'll Think Of Something" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 24, 2014

Bassist/vocalist Greg Nathan makes it perfectly clear that he would like the liner notes of I'll Think of Something to be read before listening to the disc. He wants to lay the groundwork for an intimate and proper homage to his late father, composer Charles Nathan. Joining Nathan is guitarist Mike Denny for a recital of ...

News: Recording

Phillip Brandon Crosses Musical Boundaries On Sunny New Ep

March 24, 2014

With the spring melting the icy chill of winter, the self-titled EP of Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Phillip Brandon delivers an appropriately sunny ambience, feel-good vibrations pulsing through an electrifying powder keg of funk, jazz, and R&B. With musical inspirations as wildly diverse as Journey and Luther Vandross. Oddly enough, Brandon’s music crosses the boundaries between them ...

Article: Live Review

Charles Lloyd at the Musical Instrument Museum

by Patricia Myers
March 23, 2014

Charles Lloyd and Sangam Musical Instrument Museum Phoenix, Arizona March 9, 2014 Saxophonist Charles Lloyd, who has continually reinvented his musical style since the late 1960s, delivered a deluge of sound and rhythm changes in a spell-binding concert that integrated avant-garde jazz with elements of Asian and Eastern European music. Performing ...

Article: Album Review

Donald Edwards: Evolution Of An Influenced Mind

Read "Evolution Of An Influenced Mind" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 23, 2014

Donald Edwards is one of those drummers that seem to be taken for granted. He's constantly being called upon to support others, shaping moods and grooves on record for everybody from saxophonist Dayna Stephens to trombonist Conrad Herwig to vocalist Carolyn Leonhart, but he's largely avoided being in the spotlight. He's only released two other leader ...

Article: Album Review

Sam Boshnack Quintet: Exploding Syndrome

Read "Exploding Syndrome" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
March 23, 2014

Intrepid trumpeter and composer Samantha Boshnack's Exploding Syndrome is one of those delightful, surprising discoveries that makes writing about jazz so rewarding. The explorative and intriguing record balances innovation with a strong melodic sense and the intimate ambience of the quintet with a definite dramatic flair. The three part “Suite for Seattle's Royal Court," ...

Article: Interview

The Feeling: Creative Control Again

by Christine Connallon
March 23, 2014

Sitting in the plush lobby of a Lower East Side hotel of New York City, Dan Gillespie- Sells and Richard Jones blend right in to the crowd, so much so that I walked past them lounging around a table with two tea pots, near a roaring fire without recognizing them. When I set myself up at ...