Search results for "Drew Gress"

Drew Gress: Chevelle (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 01, 09

Drew Gress is a highly intelligent composer, and it shows on "Chevelle." The harmonic line and rhythm, pinned down so...

Drew Gress: True South (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 22, 08

Just what the jazz world has been missing . . . more covers of John Philip Sousa's tunes. But you will be so busy li...

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...

Ben Perowsky: Shema (Shaharit) (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music October 13, 09

Ben Perowsky is a dynamic drummer who has successfully balanced work in straight-ahead jazz, experimental/free jazz, ...

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 ...

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...

Tony Malaby: Cosas (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 30, 08

Tony Malaby is one of the busiest saxophonists in the New York scene today. Whether it was his month-long residency a...

John Surman: Haywain (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music August 03, 09

In 1992, Surman and Abercombie teamed up with Peter Erskine and Marc Johnson for Abercrombie’s exceptional November p...

Don Byron: A Mural from Two Perspectives (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Since he was named “Jazz Artist of the Year” by Down Beat in 1992 after the release of his debut album, The Tuskegee ...

Fred Hersch: Misterioso (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 17, 08

The sophisticated stylizing of Fred Hersch is used to great effect on this rhythmically syncopated Monk tune, creatin...

Don Byron: I'll Follow the Sun (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 06, 08

Multifaceted clarinetist Don Byron scores huge with this cover of Paul McCartney's divine "I'll Follow the Sun." His ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ PERSPECTIVES ON THE BEATLES

During the 1960s, jazz became more stylistically diverse than ever. Conventional norms were assertively challen...

Franco Ambrosetti: Frasi (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music June 24, 08

Born and still living in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, Franco Ambrosetti is a veteran of European jazz an...

Ravi Coltrane: Shine (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music January 10, 09

This track may remind you of the work of a famous quartet that recorded for the Impulse label a few decades ago. But...

Ray Anderson: The Literary Lizard (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

It's fitting that the rambunctious and irrepressible trombonist Ray Anderson has recorded with both the George Gruntz...

Gress, Drew (Andrew Daniel) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Gress, Drew (Andrew Daniel), bassist/composer; b. Trenton, NJ, 20 November 1959. He grew up in Yardley, Pennsylvania....

Tony Malaby: Dos Caminos (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music August 26, 08

While a quartet with two drummers is not the most ordinary type of band, in this case it's the powerful engine needed...

Tim Hagans: Over and Back (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music June 16, 08

Having recently reviewed two Marc Copland albums, one of which featured Tim Hagans on trumpet, I'm hard-pressed ...

Fred Hersch: My Funny Valentine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 20, 09

Put simply, Fred Hersch is one of the world's finest jazz pianists, and every day that he can share his musical visio...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MY FUNNY VALENTINE

            My Funny Valentine, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Marc Copland: Like You (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 21, 08

Marc Copland is one of those rare instrumentalists who have developed amazing control over tone and volume, much like...

Berne, Tim (Bruce Timothy) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Alto and baritone saxophonist Tim Berne combines influences from avant-garde jazz, modern classical music, rhythm 'n'...

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