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Take Five With Quentin Angus
by AAJ Staff
Meet Quentin Angus: Australian-born guitarist Quentin Angus is a name to remember. He has performed in Japan, USA, Australia, Europe and New Zealand, including Jazz Hoeilaart (Belgium), and the Adelaide International Guitar Festival. Angus has released one album as a band leader, Retrieval Structure, in 2011, and several as a side man, including recording/ ...
Wolfgang Muthspiel: Drumfree
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Drumfree contains some of the most stimulating three-way counterpoint written and played in a long time. All of the compositional credit goes to Wolfgang Muthspiel, the composer; but making it all come alive is Muthspiel, the guitarist, and his chosen partners for this date: saxophonist Andy Scherrer and bassist Larry Grenadier. Muthspiel leads from the front ...
Wolfgang Muthspiel: Drumfree
by Jack Huntley
Wolfgang Muthspiel is a hypnotically adept guitarist who seems to have a penchant for exploring the percussion-less musical setting. His previous album, Live At The Jazz Standard (Material Records, 2010), was a technically impeccable guitar duo with Mick Goodrick, and in some ways, Drumfree is a natural extension of the ideas investigated on that album. But ...
Rebekka Bakken: Dusseldorf, Germany, March 17, 2011
by Phillip Woolever
Rebekka BakkenZakkDusseldorf, GermanyMarch 17, 2011 After singer Rebekka Bakken ignited an intimate evening before a comfortably snug, sold out gathering of 303 counted customers, it seemed that--promotionally at least---she's been characterized with too soft an edge. Bakken may, indeed, be marketed too gently. On recording covers and ...
Jim Hart: The Art of Juggling
by Alan Bryson
Jim Hart is one of the hottest young musicians on the U.K. jazz scene. His impressive skills are matched by a level of experience and maturity that belie his age. His musicianship elicited this praise from vibes heavyweight Joe Locke: “Some of the best music I've heard in a long time. Definitely the best vibes playing ...
Live At The Jazz Standard
Label: Material Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Throughout; Introduction to All the Things; All the Things You Are;
Liebslied; Minimal; Falling Grace; Zen; R.E.M.; Darn That Dream; Stella
By Starlight.
Hang on Hippie
Label: Art Flo Productions
Released: 2010
Track listing:
01. One Glance is not enough ; 02. Your street; 0.3 New Song ; 04. Story of a day; 05. The
Sneaker; 06. Wonder; 07. The Beginning ; 08. Seventy-four; 09. Mood turns; 10. The
unknown singer.
Wolfgang Muthspiel / Mick Goodrick: Live at the Jazz Standard
by Jack Huntley
The worry, when two distinctive musicians play in a duo setting, is that one will display a heavy-handedness that brings down the combined feel. The urge to fill in the openness is ever-tempting. Luckily, both Wolfgang Muthspiel and Mick Goodrick are not only talented guitarists, but well-schooled in the art of supporting others musically, while maintaining ...
Wolfgang Muthspiel / Mick Goodrick: Live at the Jazz Standard
by John Barron
Guitarists Wolfgang Muthspiel and Mick Goodrick are two like-minded explorers of fretboard possibilities. Goodrick, the elder, has been a renowned performer and educator for over forty years, working with the likes of Gary Burton, Jack DeJohnette and Steve Swallow. Muthspiel, Goodrick's former student at Berklee College of Music has performed with Peter Erskine, Paul Motian and ...
Master Guitarists Wolfgang Muthspiel and Mick Goodrick Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
When guitarists Wolfgang Muthspiel and Mick Goodrick walked up to the stage on January 30th, 2008, they were not only preparing to record a live album for Muthspiel's Material Records label, they were celebrating a musical and personal relationship that stretches back more than two decades. First meeting at the New England Conservatory, where Muthspiel studied ...
