The 70th Annual Downbeat Critics Poll is out now, highlighting several albums and artists repped from May 2021-April 2022 at Lydia Liebman Promotions. See the full list below! Rising Star Large Ensemble 1. Ulysses Owens Jr. Big Band Rising Star Soprano Sax 1. Roxy Coss Jazz Artist of the Year 17. Dave Liebman Jazz Album … Read More
Downbeat Magazine – January 2022. Reviews: Champian Fulton: Live From Lockdown Dave Liebman Expansions: Selflessness (Dot Time) Brian Lynch: Brian Lynch: Songbook Vol. 1: Bus Stop Serenade (Hollistic MusicWorks) Mehmet Alí Sanlikol: An Elegant Ritual (DÜNYA) Charnett Moffett: Live (Motéma) Best Albums of The Year:
By Gary Fukushima, Downbeat On the opening track of drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.’s new big band album, he plays five sharp rim shots, which catapult the band into “Two Bass Hit,” the brash John Lewis/Dizzy Gillespie composition first recorded by Gillespie and his jazz orchestra in 1947. However, this arrangement is closer to the sextet … Read More
