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Article: Live Review

Anat Cohen at Kennedy Center Jazz Club

by Franz A. Matzner
November 6, 2012

Anat Cohen has received no shortage of accolades of late and her rise is a testament to her stunning capacities on clarinet and saxophone. She is no stranger to Washington, DC audiences either, packing clubs and concert halls from Bohemian Caverns to the Sixth and I Synagogue. Most recently, Cohen filled the Kennedy Center's Jazz Club, ...

Article: Album Review

Joe Henderson: In 'N Out

Read "In 'N Out" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons
November 6, 2012

Music Matters is extending its reissue run of classic Blue Note records, which has led them to tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson's 1964 session In 'N Out. His third album as a leader for the label, In 'N Out mixes aggressive hard bop with more searching ballads on its way to turning into a musically diverse, first-rate ...

News: Performance / Tour

Kirk Whalum Performing "Gospel According to Jazz Christmas" on Saturday, December 1 at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church

November 6, 2012

Saxophonist Kirk Whalum (pictured) will perform a “Gospel According to Jazz Christmas" concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, December 1 at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church, 5515 Doctor Martin Luther King Dr. Whalum, a popular smooth jazz and R&B performer and the nephew of St. Louis pianist, saxophonist and singer Hugh “Peanuts" Whalum, first launched the “Gospel ...

News: Performance / Tour

Harry Miller to Play Saturday, November 17 at Robbie's House of Jazz

November 6, 2012

Pianist and St. Louis expat Harry Miller, who grew up in University City and now lives in NYC, is coming back home this month to perform at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, November 17 at Robbie's House of Jazz. Miller's credits include a couple of years of road work with trumpeter Maynard Ferguson's last touring group, Big Bop ...

News: Performance / Tour

DJ Shadow Announces US DJ Dates + Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow & Reconstructed: The Definitive DJ Shadow

November 6, 2012

DJ Shadow Announces Additional US DJ Dates In Support Of Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow and Reconstructed: The Definitive DJ Shadow Released September 25, on Universal Music Enterprises DJ Shadow, who is rightly regarded as one of the most influential and consistently innovative artists to emerge from music in the last 20 years, released four ...

News: Recording

D. Gookin Releases "Prey On The Prize" EP

November 6, 2012

D. Gookin is the alias of NY-based producer/songwriter/drummer Mike Birnbaum. His music has been known to vary dramatically – from ‘80s flavored, alt electro-rock, jamtronic, pop to digital reggae. Combining the adventurousness of modern electronic innovators like Tobacco and Daedelus, D. Gookin’s sound is as propulsive as it is melodic and as freewheeling as it is ...

Article: Album Review

Out to Lunch: No One Left Behind

Read "No One Left Behind" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
November 5, 2012

Out to Lunch's No One Left Behind is comparable to collage- an art technique which integrates incongruent fragments, textures and visual forms into a cohesive work. Led by multi-instrumentalist David Levy, the New York-based ensemble at a cursory glance, might be a considered just another experimental jazz funk band. Yet there's clearly more to be gleaned ...

Article: Interview

John Patitucci: The Gentle Soul

by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
November 5, 2012

Every jazz musician inhabits a private inner world of amazing energy and light, where they live, dream and fall deeply in love with their unique craft while creating this extraordinary and improvised music. Through the years, some become masters of their instruments, and a selfless interaction with the world takes place, where they share what they ...

Article: Album Review

Animation: Transparent Heart

Read "Transparent Heart" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
November 5, 2012

With his second release for this UK-based progressive record label, award-winning saxophonist/composer/bandleader Bob Belden nurtures and perhaps challenges a youthful cast of musicians who are graduates from his alma mater, the University of North Texas. Moving further east, however, the premise for the production, resides within Belden's impressionistic sensibilities of Manhattan. Belden's jazz-fusion applications ...

Article: Album Review

Dave Pell: Remembers John Kirby and Big Small Bands

Read "Remembers John Kirby and Big Small Bands" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
November 5, 2012

Historical recreations of music are nothing new. Every tribute recording ever released is one. In the 1980s and '90s, classical music went through its “period instrument-performance practice" phase, where the entire Baroque, Classical and early Romantic repertoires were recreated using instruments and metronomic markings from the 18th and 19th Centuries. In the late 1950s, jazz was ...