By Filipe Freitas, JazzTrail New York-based saxophonist/composer Dave Pietro reflects on the modern human experience on his new outing, Hypersphere, a record that reveals the searching quality of his music. … Read More
By Filipe Freitas, JazzTrail American pianist and composer Julian Shore is in good company on his fourth album as a leader, Where We Started. The album is composed of eight … Read More
By Filipe Freitas, JazzTrail With one foot in the fusion genre and the other in the harmolodic approach of free-jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman, Boston-based keyboardist Dave Bryant releases Night Visitors, … Read More
By Filipe Freitas, JazzTrail Saxophonist Walter Smith III reappears side by side with guitarist Matthew Stevens in the revived In Common group, two years after the release of its eponymous … Read More
By Filipe Freitas, JazzTrail Happy Synapse is the sophomore album from St.Petersburg-native drummer Sasha Mashin, leader of a sextet featuring recent accomplices Dmitry Mospan on tenor, Josh Evans on trumpet, … Read More
By Filipe Freitas, JazzTrail Even if Charles Pillow’s name doesn’t immediately ring a bell, you have probably heard him playing with central jazz figures as Maria Schneider, Dave Liebman, John … Read More
By Filipe Freitas, Jazz Trail Pianist Andy Milne releases a trio album of mainly original material in the company of generous cohorts, bassist John Hébert and drummer Clarence Penn. The … Read More
By Filipe Freitas, JazzTrail On her new outing, Pursuance: the Coltranes, saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin is far from the cosmopolitan sounds of funk and R&B and closer to the spiritual modal … Read More
By: Filipe Freitas, Jazz Trail Personnel – Immanuel Wilkins: alto saxophone; JD Allen: tenor saxophone; Giveton Gelin: trumpet; Luis Perdomo: piano; Orrin Evans: piano; Ben Wolfe: bass; Donald Edwards: drums. … Read More
Filipe Frietas, JazzTrail Guitarist Eric Hofbauer, a mainstay of the Boston scene, assembles a supple jazz sextet where he teams up with bassist Nate McBride and drummer Curt Newton in … Read More
