Band: Frode Gjerstad, Fred Lonberg-Holm Videographer: Kevin Reilly [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11lsPJa_1fU&w=560&h=315] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8ysWYjmhkw&w=560&h=315] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoabfsT6jO4&w=560&h=315] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Ul-VTJpY4&w=560&h=315]
Fay Victor’s monthly performance at 55Bar is one of the most happening things in New York City these days. Full of soulful energy and crisp with fresh ideas, Victor picks the audience up and carries them along on a delectable journey. On July 28, the voice artist led her band on a special night that
Andrew Drury’s Content Provider (CD) Self-titled (Soup & Sound, 2015) Andrew Drury brings the content, all of it, on Content Provider, a set of six densely constructed instrumental compositions (and an arrangement of Clifford Brown’s Daahoud) released in 2015 on his own Soup and Sound Recordings label. This is an album of in-your-face material: the
Peter Kuhn The Other Shore (No Business, 2016) No Coming, No Going: The Music of Peter Kuhn, 1978-79 (No Business Records, 2016) Reprieves aren’t too common in the jazz business. For every rediscovered figure who narrowly lost battles with personal demons, like bassist Henry Grimes or reedists Giuseppe Logan and Frank Morgan, there are countless
William Parker – Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace (Centering, 1980) [vinyl] Peter Kuhn Quintet – Livin’ Right (Big City Records, 1979) [vinyl] Bernd Konrad – Traumtanzer (Hat Hut, 1980) [vinyl] William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra – Flowers Grow in My Room (Centering, 1994) Peter Kuhn – No Coming, No Going:
Poet, photographer, professor, and bandleader Thomas Sayers Ellis is the author of The Maverick Room and Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems (Graywolf Press). His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including The Paris Review, Poetry, The Nation, Tin House and the Best American Poetry (2007, 2011, 2010 and 2015). He has been a
Michael Bisio & Kirk Knuffke Row for William O. (Relative Pitch Records, 2016) Personnel: Michael Bisio (bass) Kirk Knuffke (cornet) Review To fully appreciate the latest CD by bassist Michael Bisio and cornet player Kirk Knuffke, “Row For William O,” picture yourself in the backseat of a car, on a joyride with two friends in
Purple Patio (No Business Records, 2016) Personnel: Nate Wooley – trumpet Hugo Antunes – bass Jorge Queijo – drums Mário Costa – drums Chris Corsano – drums Tracks List: Parturition Aurora Animals Triangle Sueca All music by Nate Wooley, Hugo Antunes, Jorge Queijo, Mário Costa, Chris Corsano Recorded on 12th May 2012 at Sá Da
William Parker – Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace (Centering Records, 1977) [vinyl] Pascal Niggenkemper’s Le 7eme Continent – Talking Trash (Clean Feed, 2016) William Parker – Stan’s Hat Flapping in the Wind (Centering Records, 2015) Michael Foster’s The Ghost – There’s a First Time for Everything (self-released, 2016) [cassette] Dre Hocevar – Collective Effervescence
Anaïs Maviel Solo (Voice & Percussion) Gold Bolus Recordings (CD) Recorded by Sami Bouvet, Paris, 2014; artwork by My Lê Chabert If you are interested in purchasing a copy of this record, you may obtain one directly from the artist here. Review hOULe is a fascinating and vital solo recording from New York-based, French-Haitian musician
