By Keith Black, Winnipeg Free Press Trumpeter Derrick Gardner is originally from Chicago, but has held the Babs Asper Chair in Jazz Trumpet at the University of Manitoba since 2011. A mainstay in the jazz community here, Gardner has a new big band release that features a number of Winnipeg musicians, including Luke Sellick (bass), … Read More
By GeorgeW.Harris, Jazz Weekly Rachel Therrien plays trumpet and flugelhorn in a mix of modern tones along with a tinge of tribute to classic muscular horn players like Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan. Read this full review here.
By Dee Dee McNeal, Musicalmemoirs’s Blog The Spanish Harlem Orchestra is blending Latin fire, sparkling percussive brilliance and traditional jazz in a multi-colored spotlight. Piano notes scurry like wild salmon swimming upstream. Dave Bryant spirals across the black and white keys with energy and purpose. Read the full reviews here.
By Dee Dee McNeil, Musicalmemoirs’s Blog Dylan Jack is a composer, trap drummer and improviser. His quartet features trumpeter, Jerry Sabatini, guitarist Eric Hofbauer and Anthony Leva on bass. Read the full review here.
By Jim Hynes, Making A Scene! Back on Mother’s Day we brought you the wonderful album, Terra, from jazz and world music vocalist Sissy Castrogiovanni. Now it’s her husband’s turn. The Time Is Now is the debut for drummer, percussionist, educator, and now band leader Jorge Perez-Albela. Like his spouse’s album, he brings a palette … Read More
By George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly Leslie Beukelman sings with rich interpretive voice as well as playing a bit of trumpet with a team of Rob Clearfield/p-o-mel, Patrick Mulcahy/b and Jon Deitemyer on a collection of artsy originals and standards. Her own “Dear Alice” has her in a poetic mood with Clearfield’s piano, while “Wasting … Read More
By George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly Drummer Jonathan Barber uses both his drumsticks and writing pen on this collection of (mostly) originals with his band of Taber Gable/p-key, Andrew Renfroe/g, Godwin Louis/as and Matt Dwonsyk/b on this collection of fluid post-bop themes. Read the full review here.
By Editor, Broadway World Today marks the release of percussionist Jorge Perez-Albela’s debut album The Time is Now. Noted for his skilled work as a sideman with such artists as Maria Schneider, Bert Seager, Danilo Perez and Sofia Rei Perez-Albela offers audiences his first foray as a bandleader on this multicultural, contemporary jazz release which … Read More
By Ross Boissoneau, Something Else! Darren Barrett takes a side trip to delve into the innovations of Nyle Steiner, creator of the EWI, popularized by such innovators as Michael Brecker. Clocking in at under a half hour, The EVI Sessions: Mr. Steiner is more EP than LP. Read the full review here.
By Ross Boissoneau, Something Else The Brecker Brothers appeared on hundreds if not thousands of recordings, by the likes of James Taylor, Todd Rundgren (“Hello It’s Me”), Aerosmith (“Same Old Song and Dance”), Everything But the Girl, Bruce Springsteen, Art Blakey, Jaco Pastorius – even Blood, Sweat and Tears, of which Randy Brecker was a … Read More
