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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
... and filled with a simmering energy on the up-tempo tracks, Metheny literally re-jumpstarted Haynes' career with this album and subsequent tour. The waltz-time title track, a staple of later Metheny trios, remains best here, without the lengthy guitar synth solo coda that would turn it into an oftentimes over-long and over-the-top show-stopper. Metheny's been expanding his sonic palette through...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
GRADY TATE and FRIENDS, ROY HAYNES QUARTET, FREDDY COLE QUARTET, BENDING TOWARDS THE LIGHT: A Jazz Nativity, CHRISTMAS with HILARY KOLE, LOUIS HAYES QUINTET: Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band, NEW YEARS EVE: Hilary Kole with Chico OFarrill's Jazz Orchestra, ANDY FARBER and HIS ORCHESTRA featuring Hilary Kole, CHICO OFARRILL'S AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA, CAST PARTY, and MORE...
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Rifftides (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
... Hall concert, is curiously tentative despite the presence of bassist Christian McBride and drummer Roy Haynes. The architectonic "Blossoms," from Sweden in 1980, is anything but tentative. Full of risk-taking, it is twelve-and-a-half minutes of Rollins at his most penetrating and complex. Mike Melvoin and Kim Park , The Art Of Conversation (City Light). Pianist Melvoin and alto saxophonist...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
... Listening,” recorded in Warsaw in 1980. Another comes from last year’s concert with the drummer Roy Haynes and the bassist Christian McBride; it’s “Some Enchanted Evening,” a song whose title would seem to apply to most of the evenings captured here, and presumably more to come.James Moody and Hank Jones“Our Delight” (IPO) is the wonderful new release by James Moody, a garrulous saxophonist...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
... player who has performed and/or recorded with notables such as Alvin Batiste, Branford Marsalis, Roy Haynes, Jeff “Tain" Watts, Terri Lynne Carrington and Nicholas Payton. You can see a profile of him done by Ruth Ezell for Living St. Louis, the local newsmagazine show of PBS affiliate KETC, in the embedded video window below.As for Dizack and Kassity, I honestly can't tell you much beyond...
