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Lerterland (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
The year of Nguyên Lê: Memorably searing electric guitar work on Uri Caine's The Othello Syndrome (Winter & Winter) and Vince Mendoza's Blauklang (ACT). Not to mention Joel Harrison's 2007 gem, Harbor (HighNote). The year of John Abercrombie: Two compelling sideman appearances with tenor saxophonists, on Adam Kolker's Flag Day (Sunnyside) and Jerry Bergonzi's Tenor Talk (Savant). The year of Dewey...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
In celebration of its fortieth anniversary, ECM has initiated a program called Touchstones in which forty albums recorded from 1971-1993 have been reissued. The program has been designed both to allow collectors to fill in missing releases and to introduce new listeners to a wide range of the musician that has defined the "ECM sound...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
With the plethora of discs released every year that over-mine the standards repertoire, it's easy to forget that there was a time when an album called Standards would not be considered almost a dirty word. Saxophonist David Liebman's recently unearthed Pendulum Live at the Village Vanguard (Mosaic, 2008) is one such example. Drummer Adam Nussbaum, figurative leader of The Nuttree Quartet and occasional...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Releases teaming unknown musicians with high profile players can be inherently suspect. Everyone has to pay the rent, so it's always possible that such sessions are taken on for strictly financial reasons, with the playing as impeccable as ever but lacking in the commitment that turns a good date into a great one. Still, that's not always the case, and however John Abercrombie ended up on this date,...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Today, The Jazz Session hit 100,000 downloads! Thanks to everyone for supporting the show! And thank you to all these fine musicians for appearing on the show: John Abercrombie, Peter Asplund, Gene Bertoncini, Don Byron, Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Dapp Theory, Toru Dodo, John Ellis, Wayne Escoffery, Robin Eubanks, Joel Frahm, Terry Gibbs, Victor Goines, Brian Groder, Tord Gustavsen, Chico Hamilton, Mel...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Joe Beck and John Abercrombie Coincidence Whaling City Sound 2007 This duet album is a guitarist's dream. Both Beck and Abercrombie have unquestionable individual virtuosity plus experience in this format through previous tandem performances with Larry Coryell, John Scofield, Ralph Towner and similar luminaries. Together, they explore pillars from the traditional and more exploratory jazz canons including...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Few guitarists in jazz have been as naturally talented as Joe Beck. On an appearance in the UK in 2000, accompanying the singer Nnenna Freelon, the Times critic wrote: "Beck combines the spacey, resonant upper register of contemporary guitarists such as John Scofield or John Abercrombie with a more focused lower range, creating the illusion that he is accompanying himself on the bass." His use of passing...
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Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
The guitar-piano-bass-drums quartet is rarer in jazz than you'd expect. There's this classic joint from the Wynton Kelly Trio plus Wes Montgomery, of course. And there's Grant Green with Sonny Clark, although those records sat in the vault for years....
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Mike Stern has a curriculum vitae that's the envy of every musician who dreams of a life in jazz.
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Swedish jazz trio e.s.t. announced today the cancellation of their Canadian tour due to the untimely death of the group's leader Esbjrn Svensson. "We are deeply saddened by the loss of such a brilliant pianist. Our condolences go out to his family as well as Dan Berglund and Magnus Ostrom," says Patrick Taylor, Executive Producer of the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival...
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gorgoroth | 05/24/2008
Mark O'Leary is an Irish jazz guitar player who has already published quite some albums, yet who is unfortunately too little known, especially Levitation with Tomasz Stanko (trumpet) and Billy Hart (drums) is also worth looking for. it's a guitar trio, with Steve Swallow on bass and Pierre Favre on percussion. O'Leary's style is great, with a sound which is reminiscent of John Abercrombie on his Homecoming
