Search results for "Bill Stewart"

Bill Carrothers: When Will The Blues Leave (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music October 13, 08

The music of Ornette Coleman is chockfull of so many twists, turns and unexpected changes in direction that its struc...

Bill Carrothers: My Heart Belongs To Daddy (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 22, 08

I always like to do a little research before I write a review. This is especially helpful when I don't know much abou...

Marc Copland: Like It Never Was (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 30, 09

On this fine trio recording of a Drew Gress composition, the normally cacophonous drummer Bill Stewart exercises unus...

Chris Potter: 7.5 (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 22, 07

In November 1957, Sonny Rollins became the first jazz artist to record live at the Village Vanguard. Forty-five year...

Pat Metheny: (Go) Get It (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

Pat Metheny was driven toward jazz by the discovery of one of his brother Mike's Miles Davis records (Four and M...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL PAT METHENY PERFORMANCES

Guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded with so many musicians, and in so many different musical contexts, that it was a...

Marc Copland: Night Whispers (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music February 02, 09

Night Whispers is the third album in pianist Marc Copland's impressive "New York Trio Recordings" series. Each album ...

Peter Bernstein: Work (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music March 11, 09

Peter Bernstein has been one of the most in-demand New York guitarists over the past two decades, although you wouldn...

Marc Copland: So What (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music February 06, 09

Pianist/composer Marc Copland and his trio's interpretation of Miles Davis's "So What" doesn't jibe with the exp...

Jonathan Kreisberg: Just In Time (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 11, 09

New York guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg is finally gaining some well-deserved momentum through his Wednesday night resi...

Kevin Hays Trio: Sweet And Lovely (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 01, 09

There is something very appealing about Kevin Hays’ approach to piano improvisation. His work is unique, interesting ...

John Scofield: Big Fan (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 31, 08

Continuing the bop explorations of the prior year's brilliant Time On My Hands, Scofield takes the Parker/ Gillespie ...

Chris Potter: Boogie Stop Shuffle (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 14, 08

After a four-minute-plus unaccompanied tenor sax introduction (so substantial that it is separated onto another track...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Whenever I step inside the Village Vanguard, I am always struck by a déjà vu sense of the awe-inspiring amounts of ...

John Scofield: The Low Road (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 21, 08

This is great Scofield! A bit more polished than some time ago, perhaps, but still it's good to hear Sco in this vein...

Marc Copland: Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music May 23, 08

The cover art of this 1998 release is Claude Monet's "Impressions: Sunrise," which speaks volumes about Marc Copland'...

George Garzone: Have You Met Miss Jones (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 03, 09

Garzone is of course best known as a member of the legendary Boston trio The Fringe, which he co-founded in 1972. Fo...

John Scofield: Shoe Dog (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 31, 07

Jazzmen, from Charlie Christian to Wes Montgomery, defined the sound of the electric guitar: clear, swinging and sop...

Martial Solal: Zag Zig (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 10, 08

Some have said that Solal is one of the most illustrious followers of Art Tatum, as far as sheer virtuosity is c...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Jesse Van Ruller: Tear Jam (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 29, 09

In contrast to the large doses of “chicken grease” usually found on jazz organ recordings, “Tear Jam” is a plaintive ...

Bill Carrothers: In the Wheelhouse (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 21, 08

This is obviously a strange trio, but it doesn't play strange music. At most, it plays music strangely. In fact, the ...

Bill Frisell: Rambler (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 14, 09

Bill Frisell refuses to be pigeonholed into a particular genre or style. For this adventure into ethnically inspired ...

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