'Live in Europe' crowns what was a momentous year for pianist Fred Hersch. Capturing his trio - with longtime associates, bassist John Hébert and drummer Eric McPherson - in peak form, the new album signals a high level mark for an ensemble that has been garnering critical and popular praise for nearly a decade. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
More than any other artist in traditional jazz today, saxophonist/composer/arranger Kenny Garrett and his band are known to entice audiences to want to get up and groove. Be it in Spain where a man from Cameroon leaped up and broke out some African moves then was joined by a young break-dancer, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
While it was captured over the course a single night, there’s a rich lifetime’s worth of music packed into The Iron Man: Live at Smoke. If it’s a slight overstatement to say that the album represents an autobiography in song, that’s only because 82-year-old jazz master Harold Mabern tells his story in every note that he plays. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
If there’s one thing the acclaimed bassist knows, it’s that when it comes to grit there’s no better resource to draw from than his own hometown, Philadelphia. So, McBride turned to one of the city’s most beloved colloquialisms to christen his latest project, Christian McBride’s New Jawn. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
There is a lot to discover in and behind Kevin Hays' piano solo music. It is music that appears to be classical yet deeply breathes in the spirit of jazz. It is the music of a jazz improviser who integrates the vocabulary of various epochs of piano music in an exceptionally natural way, ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album (Deluxe Version)
The recordings on "Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album" were made in the mid-1960s during Coltrane's Classic Quartet period and were lost for decades. Deluxe version including seven bonus alternate takes of some of the tracks from the standard edition. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Mit seinem Trio reiht sich JD Allen ein in eine Reihe großer Vorläufer (man denke etwa an Sonny Rollins oder Ornette Coleman) – stilistisch aber ist er sein eigener Herr: Die „New York Times“ charakterisiert ihn treffend als “tenor saxophonist with an enigmatic, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Since 1991 Hammond organist Larry Goldings, guitarist Peter Bernstein, and drummer Bill Stewart have constituted what Jazzstation calls an “…unusual camaraderie of world-class players… Three of the world's best players in the current jazz scene...” ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Still Dreaming (feat. Ron Miles, Scott Colley & Brian Blade)
Saxophonist and composer Joshua Redman is joined by drummer Brian Blade, bassist Scott Colley, and trumpeter Ron Miles for Still Dreaming—an album inspired by his father Dewey Redman's 1976–1987 band, Old and New Dreams—due on Nonesuch Records May 25, 2018. Along with the senior Redman, Old and New Dreams ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Marc Sinan’s third ECM release is an evocative duo album with Oğuz Büyükberber which subtly covers a lot of ground. The guitarist and the clarinettist have worked together in many contexts since first meeting in Istanbul a decade ago, and Büyükberber previously appeared on ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
The group colloquially known as “the Standards trio” has made many outstanding recordings, and After The Fall must rank with the very best of them. “I was amazed to hear how well the music worked,” writes Keith Jarrett in his liner note. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Benannt nach einer New Yorker U-Bahn-Haltestelle, widmet sich die Formation Broadway Lafayette um Mick Collins, Gitarrist und Sänger (The Gories/ The Dirtbombs) ganz der Cajun Musik, deren Wurzeln ins 18. Jahrhundert zurückgreifen und die von französischen Flüchtlingen aus Kanada ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Cajun
Eine der vielseitigsten und kreativsten Persönlichkeiten der amerikanischen Musikszene ist der Saxophonist, Komponist, Arrangeur und Produzent Alfred „Pee Wee“ Elllis, der im Porgy & Bess an drei aufeinanderfolgenden Konzert Abenden ein breitgefächertes, thematisch gebündeltes Programm mit internationalen und lokalen Musikgrößen als Summe ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Way Out West (Remastered Deluxe Edition)
Sonny Rollins was always gifted with a brawny, expressive tone and a formidable sense of swing. But on "Saxophone Colossus" he conveyed a new-found harmonic confidence and a singular sense of thematic continuity that gave each improvisation a transcendent quality. And his attack, always cutting and direct, took on immense ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
It was the awakening (Despertando) of a tinge of longing which inspired Diego Pinera to record this album. More than seventeen years after having left his native Uruguay, he re-visits his roots, the influences which first left their mark on him, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection (Remastered)
Celebrating 100 years of Thelonious Monk: includes A Collective Personnel Of: Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Gary Mapp, Julius Watkins, Percy Heath, Willie Jones, Ray Copeland, Frank Foster, Curly Russell, Tommy Potter And Art Taylor. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
This Modern Art recording project is an invitation to discover new ideas, and these pieces of music by Vincent Lê Quang, Stéphane Kerecki and myself are not really tributes; I prefer to think of them in terms of correspondences, parallel ideas, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre:
Brooklyn-born and bred Eric Wyatt owns a solid berth along the saxophone continuum originally laid out by guys like Parker, Coltrane and Rollins. Throughout his career, his playing has been edgy and inventive, heartfelt and poignant. In fact, his father was good friends ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
