Search results for "Uri Caine"
Uri Caine: Nymphomania (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music August 09, 08Not only is Uri Caine unabashedly dually influenced by jazz and classical music, but he has spent most of the last 30...
Uri Caine: Blackbird (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 19, 08Uri Caine belongs to the generation of jazz musicians whose ears have been bathed at least as much in rock and pop as...
Uri Caine: Cheek to Cheek (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music March 03, 08Even if he does let us recognize bits of this evergreen, Uri Caine toys with it from the beginning with little regard...
Gerry Gibbs & Ravi Coltrane: Impressions (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 15, 09If you are wondering how Gerry Gibbs and Ravi Coltrane came together on Gibbs' 1996 debut album, The Thrasher, it jus...
Ben Perowsky: Shema (Shaharit) (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music October 13, 09Ben Perowsky is a dynamic drummer who has successfully balanced work in straight-ahead jazz, experimental/free jazz, ...
Dave Douglas: Spring Ahead (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 19, 09Douglas recorded three "tribute" CDs in the '90's, to Booker Little (In Our Lifetime), Wayne Shorter (Stargazer), and...
Franco Ambrosetti: Frasi (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music June 24, 08Born and still living in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, Franco Ambrosetti is a veteran of European jazz an...
Dave Douglas: Culture Wars (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 20, 08Donny McCaslin had Chris Potter's big shoes to fill when he joined the Dave Douglas quintet, and on the trumpeter's M...
Marty Ehrlich: Waltz (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music March 31, 08The problem with 3/4 modal tunes is not only that there are a lot of them, but that you must improvise in a very orig...
Dave Douglas: Poses (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 24, 07Jazz musicians have traditionally turned to pop music for vehicles for instrumental improvisation. Today’s progressiv...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL MODERN JAZZ TRUMPET SOLOS
Trumpeter by...
Dave Douglas: Unison (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 06, 08Dave Douglas stands alone as the most distinctive trumpeter on today's scene. His playing nods to comparatively minor...
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...
Dave Douglas: Unison (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music September 21, 09The trumpeter Dave Douglas’s take on “Unison” is no match for Bjork’s sublime and bouncy original recording. Absent f...
Uri Caine & Don Byron in Sardinia posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 24, 08Paris-based Thierry Quénum, a regular contributor to jazz.com, concludes his coverage of on an unusual jazz festival ...
In Conversation with Uri Caine posted in Features and Interviews August 14, 08By Ted Panken ...
Dave Douglas: Soul on Soul (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 28, 08Dave Douglas recorded three critically acclaimed tributes in the 1990's, to Booker Little (In Our Lifetime), Wayne Sh...
Perowsky, Ben posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Perowsky, Ben, drummer, percussion, electronics; b. New York City, NY, 12 May 1966. His father is saxophonist/clarine...
Byron, Don posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Byron, Don, clarinet, composer, arranger, saxophones; b. Nov. 8, 1958, in the Bronx, New York City . His father was a...
Sardinia Presents Time in Jazz posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 20, 08Paris-based Thierry Quénum, a regular contributor to jazz.com, sends us this report on an unusual jazz festival in a ...
Alessi, Ralph (Peter) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Alessi, Ralph (Peter) , trumpeter; b. San Francisco, CA, 5 March 1963. Ralph Alessi began studying the trumpet at the...
THE DOZENS posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 01, 07In African-American tradition, "the dozens" is an informal exchange filled with ribaldry, taunting and clever put dow...
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