For most of her career, Lisa Hilton has created an impressionistic approach to her piano compositions and playing style. This time around, with trumpeter Igmar Thomas, bassist Luques Curtis and drummer Rudy Royston, she drinks from the well of Horace…
Month: December 2023
Hiromi: Sonic Wonderland
One of modern jazz’s true explorers, Hiromi creates a fresh sounding alvumplaying both piano and keyboars with Hardien Feraud/b, Gene Coye/dr and Adam O’Farrill/tp on this recent release.She switiches between acoustic and electronic with alacrity, the former showing her rich…
Nils Landgren: Christmas With My Friends VIII
A wide range of Christmas seasonings are sprinkled on this homey and enjoyable album by Nils Landgren. This latest ranges from a cozy “Blue Christmas with Bill Hayes ande Jay Johnson to a New Orleanish festive “O Tannenbaun”. An operatic…
Roger Lin: Exploitation Suite
Guitarist Roger Lin creates a tapestry of tones on his compositions interpreted with the mix and match team of two different rhythm sections in Moshe Elmakias/p, Willis Edmundson-Quinton Cain/dr and Isaac Levien-Simon Willson/b and saxist Chaz Maretineau. There’s even a…
Guitar Festival with Peter Bernstein, Yotam Silberstein & Larry Koonse@Sam First Bar 11.30.23
Maybe because it’s the Christmas season, but it seems like every December LA gets blessed with the gift of a plethora of guitar players coming to town for a few days in the various clubs. Anyone hearing me complaining?!? Sam…
BRANDEE YOUNGER: BRAND NEW MUSICAL LIFE
THE QUESTION THAT WOULD STUMP JAZZ FAN THS USED TO BE, “QUICK, NAME ME THREE BEBOP CLARINET PLAYERS” CRICKETS… NOW, YOU CAN GET THE SAME RESPONSE IF YOU ASK FOR THREE LIVING JAZZ HARPISTS. WELL, THERE USED TO BE DOROTHY…