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Article: Album Review

Lisa Engelken: Lisa Engelken - Little Warrior

Read "Lisa Engelken - Little Warrior" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 27, 2013

Polymathic in her talent and approach, vocalist Lisa Engelken further cements her status as a far-reaching artist, established on the previous Caravan (Self Produced, 2010), with the present Little Warrior. Described as, “part freight train, part junkyard trombone," Engelken is 100% an American, hailing from the Kansas heartland where she obviously picked up fluency in Portuguese, ...

Article: Album Review

David Sills: Blue's the New Green

Read "Blue's the New Green" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 27, 2013

Saxophonist David Sills opens his Blue's the New Green with tenor sax titan Sonny Rollins' tune, “No Moe." But Sills doesn't use Rollins' musculature or his burly tone. He rolls more in the mode of sax men Joe Henderson or Stan Getz--or, to take it back further, Coleman Hawkins or Ben Webster, with a smooth, vibrato-less ...

Article: Live Review

Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola

by Keith Henry Brown
October 26, 2013

Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band Dizzy's Club Coca Cola New York, NY October 6, 2013 Though the band leader/pianist /composer Sun Ra spoke of being part of an “Angel Race" from Saturn, his music, as avant-garde as it could sometimes be, was for the large ...

Article: Album Review

Jonas Kullhammar Quartet: Låt Det Vara

Read "Låt Det Vara" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 26, 2013

If someone told you that jazz wasn't invented in America, you would say they were crazy. Insane. Next thing they might submit is that Christopher Columbus didn't discover the New World. Oops, okay discounting the Native Americans already here, there's that Scandinavian guy Leif Ericson that came through the East Village about 500 years before Chris. ...

Article: Album Review

Levin Minnemann Rudess: Levin Minnemann Rudess

Read "Levin Minnemann Rudess" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 26, 2013

For a first crack at a fresh idea for Lazy Bones Records--three well-known musicians brought together to create improv-based music with a minimum of planning--Levin Torn White (2011) was a set that, beyond finding common ground amongst bassist/stick master Tony Levin, guitar sound sculptor David Torn and drummer Alan White, also proved, unequivocally, that White is ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Paul McCartney: New

by Mike Perciaccante
October 26, 2013

Welcome back Paul McCartney. For lack of a better phrase, he's back to where he once belonged. He's released a collection of songs that is all at once lyrically pleasing, Beatlesque, forward-thinking, modern, vintage and above all else rocking. On New, Sir Paul sounds re-energized. Gone are the introspective, reflective and somewhat somber lyrics and music ...

Article: Live Review

Ian Anderson at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury

by Mike Perciaccante
October 26, 2013

Ian Anderson NYCB Theatre At Westbury Westbury, New York October 8, 2013 Ian Anderson is a Scottish singer-songwriter who rose to fame as the flute-playing lead singer of the progressive British rock band Jethro Tull. Throughout its career, Jethro Tull released some of the rock era's most beloved albums, including: Benefit ...

Article: Album Review

Alexander Baboian: Alex Baboian - Piano Bench

Read "Alex Baboian - Piano Bench" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 26, 2013

Jazz trio treatment of classical music is nothing new. French pianist Jacques Loussier has been doing it for 30 years with releases like Bach: The Brandenburgs (Telarc, 2006) and Mozart Piano Concertos 20/23 (Telarc, 2006), among many others. So, Alex Baboian's Piano Bench might not appear as novel as it is. But it is unique in ...

Article: Interview

Christine Jensen: Impressionism

by George Colligan
October 25, 2013

[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth] I was first exposed to alto saxophonist Christine Jensen through working with her trumpet playing sister Ingrid Jensen. We played some of her music, which really struck me as direct, mature, grounded and highly creative. Later on I got to meet ...

Article: Album Review

Dexter Gordon: North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts

Read "North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
October 25, 2013

The North Sea Jazz festival has an immense archive of filmed concert performances, which makes its Legendary Concerts CD/DVD series an eye-wateringly interesting prospect. The first eight volumes--featuring tenor saxophonists Dexter Gordon, Yuri Honing and Wayne Shorter, pianist Michael Borstlap, guitarist Jan Akkerman, and trumpeters Miles Davis, Eric Vloeimans and Dizzy Gillespie--are all cherry-pickingly good, and ...