Review by Suzanne Lorge – SONICA (Thana Alexa, Nicole Zuraitis, Julia Adamy) – SONICA – Page 10 *and mention of Catherine Russell’s Send For Me, upcoming performances at Dizzy’s Review by Dan Bilawsky – Steven Feifke/Bijon Watson – Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra – Page 14 Reviews by Anna Steegmann – Esthesis Quartet/Elsa Nilsson – Esthesis … Read More
Articles by Suzanne Lorge, Dan Bilawsky Vox News article by Suzanne Lorge – Sheila Jordan – Page 11 Review by Dan Bilawsky – Or Bareket – Sahar – Page 21 Read the July 2022 issue of The New York City Jazz Record here.
New York City Jazz Record, May 2022 Vox News article, mention of Kristen Lee Sergeant’s Falling – Page 11 Review by Russ Musto – Alex ‘Apolo’ Ayala – Bámbula – Page 14 Recommended New Releases Column by Andrey Henkin – Dave Brubeck Trio – Live From Vienna 1967 – Page 14 Review by Phil Freeman … Read More
New York City Jazz Record, January 2022 Best of 2021 selections: BEST TRIBUTES OF THE YEAR / BEST CONCERTS OF THE YEAR Dave Liebman Expansions: Selflessness (Dot Time) BEST REISSUES OF THE YEAR Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-1966 (Mosaic) BEST DEBUTS OF THE YEAR Samara Joy: Samara … Read More
By Suzanne Lorge, DownBeat In 2018, South Korean composer/leader Jihye Lee won the BMI Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize for her big band chart “Unshakeable Mind,” which led to a commission for a second piece, “Revived Mind.” These two compositions, complex tapestries woven out of simple threads, illustrate the high concept behind Daring Mind, the … Read More
By Suzanne Lorge, Downbeat On The Duo Sessions, Lennie Tristano wends his way through the liminal spaces bridging bebop, cool jazz and free-improv. The album’s 16 tracks, recorded after Tristano’s final public appearance in 1968 but never previously released, reveal not only how intuitively the pianist parsed these languages, but how skillfully he crafted improvisational … Read More
By Suzanne Lorge, Downbeat Jazz soloing tends to feed on the energy of a live audience, which is why albums like Bobby Selvaggio’s Live From The Bop Stop are so exciting. Selvaggio has considerable experience in the control room—10 previous studio albums as a bandleader—but with this latest effort, he drops his first live release. … Read More
By Suzanne Lorge, Downbeat Pianist Andy Milne uses building metaphors to talk about music. Construction is “about how you bind two things together—and that’s how I think about composition,” he explained during a March interview in the Harlem apartment that he shares with his wife, singer La Tanya Hall. Read the full feature here.
By Suzanne Lorge, Downbeat In a video from the 2015 International Jazz Day, filmed in Paris, clarinetist Oran Etkin and keyboardist Herbie Hancock are joking around. “I wanna say hi to all the Timbalooloo kids,” says Hancock, directly to the camera. “Thank you so much for being part of this program and thank you for … Read More
