REVIEW: Jazz Podium (Germany) Reviews Gene Ess’ “Apotheosis”

June 8, 2019

Alexander Schmitz, Jazz Podium English translation: That Gene Ess is Japanese, you can see especially on song titles such as “Sands of Time (Okinawa)”, “Tokyo Red”, and “Fireflies of Hiroshima” three out of eight of his compositions on the fourth album of his quintet Fractal Attraction. Otherwise, the New Yorker of choice since 1991, a … Read More

REVIEW: Jazz Podium (Germany) Reviews Jeff Siegel’s “London Live”

November 12, 2018

Detlef A. Ott, Jazz Podium The recordings were made on November 3, 2010, the last evening of a two-week tour through Germany and Austria at the London Pizza Express Jazz Club, which was sparsely populated due to a public transport strike. It was the fourth European tour of drummer and composer Jeff Siegel, who has … Read More