Saxist supreme Steve Wilson leads an all star quartet along with Orrin Evans/p, Ugonna Okegwo/b and Bill Stewart through a torrid night recorded last year at the Village Vanguard. Everyone gets a chance to show their muscle here on the…
Month: April 2015
Marshall Gilkes & The WDR Big Band: Koln
Trombonist Marshall Gilkes focuses on the pretty, classy and glassy side of the big band on these charts and compositions from his pen. Except for autumnal “My Shining Hour” (which features the leader on a warm solo), the material is…
Gebhard Ullmann Basement Research: Hat and Shoes
Fresh from Germany, tenor saxist/bass clarinetist Gebhard Ullman leads a top heavy pianoless team of Steve Swell/tb, Julian Arguelles/bari, Pascal Niggenkemper/b and Gerald Cleaver/dr through a collection of semi-fre post bop originals. The success of the pieces depend on the…
Hypercolor: Hypercolor
Power Trios. We’re not taking Bill Evans here, but more like Cream or Hendrix. The team of Eyal Maoz/g, James Ilgenfritz/b and Lukas Ligeti/dr take yo back to the days of 70s heavy metal rockers and sometimes into the future…
Dori Caymmi@The Edye 04.11.15
“I don’t listen to much of today’s music; it’s all made to be thrown away.” That was Dori Caymmi’s contrast of today’s pop sounds in comparison to the 1 ½ hours of timeless Brazilian music that he and his band…
SFJAZZ Collective: Live-The Music of Joe Henderson & Original Compositions
Usually, all star summits, be they in sports or in music, end up with polite and sterile affairs. The SF Jazz Collective has been able to avoid this pitfall, maybe because they keep stirring up the lineup and material to…
Art Pepper: Neon Art Volume Two
Omnivore and Laurie Pepper are finally releasing the previously issued lps of Art Pepper’s last years in concert in cd form. This latest volume is from 1981, when Pepper’s tone was still warm and clearn, and he’s with the stellar…
Charles Lloyd: Wild Man Dance
No one, and I mean NO ONE in jazz knows how to play a rubato like Charles Lloyd. The meditative brood sounds so simple, but in lesser hands it usually turns into a self indulged squawk or a meandering miasma.…
Tony Adamo: And The New York Crew
There’s a lot to love about vocalist Tony Adamo. First, he LOVES jazz. Second, he REALLY LOVES jazz, and it comes out on every song on every album. He’s got a voice that is what Tom Waits would dream of…
Les McCann: Invitation to Openness
Back in the day, Les McCann was one of the proponents of the “soul jazz” movement. He had a BIG hit with Eddie Harris with a rousing “Compared to What?”. This 1972 reissue finds him in the heavy company of…