Jazz Times Reviews Brandi Disterheft’s “Blue Canvas”
Blue Canvas
Jazziz Summer Issue Features Brandi Disterheft’s “Blue Canvas”
Brandi Disterheft Talks “Blue Canvas” With Bass Player Magazine
Rick Suchow, Bass Player “My concept changes every few months,” says New York jazzer Brandi Disterheft on how she gets her big upright sound. “Sometimes I’m craving gut strings, other times low-action metal strings with a growly sustain. Sometimes the music calls for a hard-hitting aggressive attack, and other times, the opposite.” She brings the … Read More
Jazz Weekly Reviews Leandro Cabral’s “Alfa” and Brandi Disterheft’s “Blue Canvas”
by George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly Piano trios can have divergent paths. Here are a pair that swing with two distinct leaders at the helm. Pianist Leandro Cabral brings together Sidiel Vieira/b and Vitor Cabral/dr for some playful trio work. The leader shows his reflective touch on some solo material such as “Valsa Do AManha” … Read More
Audiophile Audition Reviews Brandi Disterheft’s “Blue Canvas”
by Pierre Giroux, Audiophile Audition Guy Dixon, writing for Canada’s Globe & Mail on July 20,2009, offered the following headline: “It’s 3 AM, and a Canadian bassist is looking for her big break”. The article went on to describe how Brandi Disterheft was attempting to break into the jazz scene in New York City, after … Read More
Brandi Disterheft Receives a 4-Star Review from All About Jazz
by Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz A canvas is often viewed as a neutral starting point, but it needn’t be so. Even a so-called “blank” space can be suffused with certain color(s) before brushstrokes are ever applied, as Brandi Disterheft reminds us. Her fourth album is a trio date painted atop, around, over, and with … Read More
New York City Jazz Record Reviews Brandi Disterheft
Brandi Disterheft Featured in this Month’s Hot House
By George Kanzler, Hot House The West Coast of the United States and Canada bring us the two women who comprise this Winning Spins. Pianist, composer and Californian Lisa Hilton and Canadian bassist and singer Brandi Disterheft, have forged careers as leaders and soloists on instruments found in the rhythm section. While Lisa has led … Read More
Rick Keene Music Scene features Brandi Disterheft on latest podcast
by Rick Keene, Rick Keene Music Scene IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BASS … MUSIC WAS IN THE HOUSEHOLD WITH BRANDI DISTERHEFT AND IN HER GENETIC POOL. HER MOM – A PIANIST. HER AUNT – A VOCALIST. A CAREER IN MUSIC SEEMED HER DESTINY. STARTING WITH SOMETHING HER FATHER THOUGHT WOULD BE FUNNY AND … Read More
Jazz Quad Reviews Brandi Disterheft’s “Blue Canvas”
by Leonid Auskern, Jazz Quad Для канадской басистки, певицы и композитора Брэнди Дистерхефт Blue Canvas – это уже четвертый альбом в дискографии. Уроженка Ванкувера дебютировала еще в 2008 году альбомом со скромным названием Debut, но эта работа сразу принесла ей высшую награду канадской звукозаписывающей индустрии, премию Джюно. Успешными были и ее последующие работы: третий альбом … Read More
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