Search results for "Jeff Ballard"

Mark Turner / Larry Grenadier / Jeff Ballard: Child's Play (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 03, 08

Ballard's highly melodic drums open this tune, soon followed by Grenadier's bass. Turner enters last, almost on tipto...

Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau: A Night Away (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 23, 07

Metheny and Mehldau worked admirably together on their recent guitar-piano duets, but this quartet track with Larry G...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BRAD MEHLDAU PERFORMANCES

Few jazz musicians in recent years have put together a more exciting and innovative body of work than Brad Mehldau....

Fly: Lady B (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music March 09, 09

This is very much an ensemble performance. And these guys are really serious about that. An email went out from Fly's...

Fly: Sky & Country (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music March 12, 09

The jazz trio Fly considers itself to have three co-leaders. You've heard of group think? This is group-think music. ...

Chano Dominguez: La Tarara (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music March 07, 08

This album, originally recorded on Venus Records, features Dominguez with the all-star rhythm section of George Mraz ...

Joshua Redman Elastic Band: Shut Your Mouth (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 10, 09

Most funk bands bring in a whole posse to slam that backbeat into submission. But a funk trio with no bass guitar? ...

Brad Mehldau: Alfie (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

One of the curses of jazz pianists is that they are forced to share their repertoire with cocktail lounge tinklers an...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BRAD MEHLDAU PERFORMANCES

Few jazz musicians in recent years have put together a more exciting and innovative body of work than Brad Mehldau....

Fly: Perla Morena (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music March 13, 09

The jazz tradition of pianoless sax trios mostly derives from the example of a few hard-edged and gritty tenor-driven...

Maria Schneider: Hang Gliding (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

As a major figure in contemporary big band composition, Mrs. Schneider's use of lush textures and complex, yet satisf...

Brad Mehldau: The Very Thought of You (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 23, 08

This 13-minute version of the Ray Noble standard, recorded at the Village Vanguard in October 2006, starts out as an ...

Brad Mehldau: O Que Será (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 23, 08

If you see the title "O Que Será," and you start thinking about Doris Day singing "Whatever will be, will be" . . . w...

Fly: Super Sister (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 10, 09

Saxophone, bass, drums. I immediately think of Sonny Rollins, or maybe even Branford Marsalis in a more modern contex...

In Conversation With Fly: Jeff Ballard, Larry Grenadier, and Mark Turner posted in Features and Interviews June 09, 09

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Brad Mehldau: Day is Done (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 06, 08

Jeff Ballard replaced longtime Mehldau drummer Jorge Rossy on Day is Done, and considering Mehldau's and Rossy's 10-y...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE NEW STANDARDS

Jazz musicians have always used popular music for improvisational vehicles. Songs from Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, eve...

In Conversation with Lionel Loueke posted in Features and Interviews February 21, 09

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In Conversation with Kurt Rosenwinkel posted in Features and Interviews October 17, 08

By Ted Panken Few musicians under 40, let alone hardcore jazz guitarists under 40, project a more immediat...

Sambeat, Perico posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Sambeat, Perico, saxophone; b. Valencia, Spain, 23 July 1962. At the age of six Sambeat began his musical studies ...

Dominguez, Chano (Sebastián Domínguez Lozano) posted in Encyclopedia July 19, 08

Pianist Chano Dominguez is at the forefront of collaborations between jazz and the flamenco music of his native Andal...

In Conversation with Anat Cohen and Duduka Da Fonseca posted in Features and Interviews April 25, 09

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In Conversation With Brian Blade posted in Features and Interviews July 14, 09

By Ted Panken "The way I was brought up, boundary lines were never laid on the ground between people or the musi...

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