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News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, February 1-7

February 1, 2013

The weekend is off to an icy start but steamy hot jazz should warm you inside and out, with a glow to last through the week. Highlights This Week Friday-Saturday, February 1-2. One of the most lauded pianists of her generation and leader on 13 critically acclaimed recordings, Lynne Arrialemakes a welcome return to the Twin ...

News: Event

MIT Jazz Program Celebrates 50 Years With A Corea Premiere

February 1, 2013

MIT Music and Theater Arts is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its jazz program. From the 1920s up until 1963, student-led jazz groups and student-produced concerts abounded on the MIT Campus. Over the years, the jazz groups included the MIT Dance Orchestra, the MIT Techtonians, and the MIT Jazz Society. On campus performances were presented by ...

News: Recording

Josh Maxey's Cycles Of Sound: A Series Of 6 Albums In 12 Months

January 31, 2013

Cycles of Sound by Josh Maxey will be released on January 31st, 2013. It is the sixth album in a series of 6 recordings in 12 months. The album is a set of live music featuring songs from the previous five albums in the series. There are nine tracks, eight original songs plus Robert Johnson's Hellhound ...

News: Radio

Triple Crown Of Tunesmiths This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

January 31, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, it’s the music of songwriters Vincent Youmans, Johnny Green and Harry Barris. Special guests Shelly Berg and Dick Hyman join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band on piano and Topsy Chapman, Marty Grosz and Carol Woods handle the vocals. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Mark Masters Ensemble: Ellington Saxophone Encounters

by Greg Simmons
January 31, 2013

It could be argued that the core of bandleader Duke Ellington's wonderful textural sound was the way he harmonized his reed section, with great woody chords and lush polyphonic melodies. That reed section, with the great Johnny Hodges leading on alto, stalwarts like Paul Gonsalves on tenor and Harry Carney on baritone, as well as shorter-term ...

Article: Album Review

Cliff Hines: Wanderlust

Read "Wanderlust" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 31, 2013

The melting pot mentality of New Orleans is responsible, in some part, for the existence and evolution of jazz in the first place, so it should come as no shock that it still serves a central hub for creativity and experimentation through combinatorial musical means. Guitarist/vocalist/composer Cliff Hines is a product of this environment, but he's ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Hristo Vitchev Quartet: Familiar Fields

by Sammy Stein
January 31, 2013

Hristo Vitchev is an impressionistic jazz guitarist and composer; born in Belgium but now residing in San Francisco, he leads several modern jazz formations, from duets to quartets. His debut, Song For Messambria (Orbit Sounds, 2009), received positive reviews internationally, and his studio album with Latin Grammy-nominated pianist Weber Iago, Secrets of An Angel (Orbit Sounds, ...

Article: Album Review

Jon Hamar: Hymn

by Hrayr Attarian
January 31, 2013

Seattle bassist Jon Hamar's third release as a leader is an intimate and collaborative effort. The textured harmonies with hints of western Classical influences that are heard on his prior CDs have further matured on Hymn, thanks, in no small part, to his choice of sidemen. Reed multi-instrumentalist Todd DelGiudice (a past collaborator ...

Article: Album Review

Michael McNeill Trio: Passageways

Read "Passageways" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 31, 2013

Michael McNeill's debut as a leader introduces a fresh perspective to the popular piano trio format. His compositions don't progress in a linear manner, nor do they strive to settle on time-tested harmonic or rhythmic structures; instead, they insistently explore the sonic possibilities within the immediate, fragile and equal interplay that the Buffalo, NY-based pianist-composer has ...

News: Recording

Vocalist Emy Tseng’s Impressive BrazilianJjazz Debut, “Sonho” Set For February 5, 2013 Release On Mei Music

January 31, 2013

The release of Emy Tseng’s debut recording Sonho is a happy event for fans of modern Brazilian jazz. Emy has a memorable and haunting voice along with a real feeling for the music, and her interpretations sound authentic. Utilizing some of the best musicians in the Washington D.C. area, Emy not only does justice to the ...