All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Memo to all those folks who insist that "real" jazz is dead, or at least on life support: do check out the leader/producing debut of 23-year-old guitarist Graham Dechter. His Right on Time supplies irrefutable evidence that the tradition is not only alive, but flourishing, because of young artists like Dechter who are both able and eager to carry the torch...
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Los Angeles native began to study music at the age of 5, taking violin lessons and composing his own orchestral pieces. The early education more than served him well, enabling him the opportunity to discover guitar at Idyllwild Arts Academy. At the age of 19, Dechter became the youngest member of the acclaimed Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra after studying at the Eastman School of Music....
Lerterland (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York , November 2009: Gerald Clayton , Two-Shade (ArtistShare) Graham Dechter , Right On Time (Capri) Anne Drummond , Like Water (ObliqSound) Terell Stafford-Dick Oatts Quintet , Bridging the Gap (Planet Arts) Henry Threadgill’s ZOOID , This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi Recordings) Miguel Zenón , Esta Plena...
