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Walt Weiskopf: Worldwide
by C. Andrew Hovan
Back in 1992, saxophonist Walt Weiskopf made his first date for Criss Cross Jazz, Simplicity. It is one of the most daring new recordings of the period, featuring Weiskopf's incendiary playing and stellar compositions. Over the course of the next ten albums for Criss Cross culminating with 2010's See the Pyramid, Weiskopf forged an ...
Walt Weiskopf European Quartet: Worldwide
by Jakob Baekgaard
These days a lot of jazz records seem to require a musical concept or an idea that unites the compositions on the album, but it doesn't have to be so complicated. After a tour in January 2019 with his European Quartet, tenor saxophonist Walt Weiskopf went into a studio in Copenhagen with the band, and a ...
Doug Webb: Fast Friends
by Mark Corroto
There is nothing as soul cleansing as bebop. Period. When you couple the music with the sunshine of Los Angeles (OK, when the smog has cleared) there is a medicinal, tonic effect to be had. Enter L.A. session saxophonist Doug Webb, a contributor to film and television, and member of big bands led by Bill Holman, ...
Doobie Brothers/Steely Dan at Blossom Music Center
by C. Andrew Hovan
The Doobie Brothers & Steely Dan-The Summer of Living Dangerously Tour Blossom Music Center Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio June 23, 2018 If there is one tried and true adage that is applicable to the arts, it is the one that goes “everything old is new again." Be it a need for monetary ...
Bill Warfield: For Lew
by Jack Bowers
The “Lew" referred to on Renaissance man Bill Warfield's latest big-band album, For Lew, is the late trumpeter Lew Soloff, whom Warfield remembers in the liner notes as “my mentor, colleague, friend and inspiration." The inspiration arrived when the teen-age Warfield, who had switched from trumpet to piano after losing his front teeth in an auto ...
Michael Dease: Reaching Out
by Mark Corroto
Somebody has to be the keeper of the flame, right? In jazz, an art form that has only recently passed the century mark, that responsibility has seemed to diminish in importance. It's not that music schools aren't churning out graduates versed in the traditional repertory, and post-modern players aren't constantly pushing the envelope of possibilities. It's ...
Fountain Of Youth
Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Backstage Blues; Close Enough For Love; Petal; How Are Things In Glocca Morra?;
Loose Lips; Echoes Of The Quiet Past; Laura; Young And Foolish; Hot Dog Days;
Heads In The Clouds; Double Date.
Hard Boppin' at Smalls
by Dave Kaufman
Smalls Jazz Club in Greenwich Village is a remarkably vibrant music venue that enjoys considerable international renown. It is not the most mannered of clubs with loud and boisterous audiences. Nor is it the most decorous, but does offer a rather distinctive look. The club has a great vibe and is committed to treating its audience ...
Walt Weiskopf: Fountain Of Youth
by David A. Orthmann
Fountain Of Youth is the latest installment of Walt Weiskopf's mid-career renaissance. In reviews of Weiskopf's three previous Posi-Tone releases, I made the misstep of treating his imposing skills as a tenor saxophonist, composer, arranger, and bandleader as separate, albeit compatible entities; this time around I realized that they are indeed parts of a larger, all-encompassing ...
The Way You Say It
Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Coffee and Scones; Separation; Inntoene; Dreamlining; Blues Combination;
Candy; Envisioned; Invisible Sun; Manny Boy; Scarlet Woman; Segment; The Way
You Say It.
