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Music Review | Steve Grossman: A Stylistic and Geographic Traveler Savors His Homecoming

From one angle, the career of the saxophonist Steve Grossman might seem to have unfolded in reverse. He came onto the radar in 1969, playing state-of-the-art jazz-rock with Miles Davis; he was all of 18. From that sideman perch, among the most visible ...

From NATE CHINEN, The New York Times,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Miles Davis,  John Coltrane,  Elvin Jones,  Charlie Parker,  Clifford Brown

Music Review | Milton Nascimento: A Brazilian High Priest Looks Back

Milton Nascimento singing at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday with his band, including Lincoln Cheib on drums and Wilson Lopes on guitar. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the ...

From NATE CHINEN, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Milton Nascimento,  Frank Sinatra

Music Review | Jim Hall: Settling Naturally Into a Stage of Comfort

The guitarist Jim Hall imbues his music with a deep, companionable rightness. His tone, dry and warm, suggests an extension of his personality. His deployment of notes, economical but fluid, complements an unassuming spirit of inquiry. And there’s a ...

From NATE CHINEN, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jim Hall,  Birdland,  Pat Metheny,  Bill Frisell,  Greg Osby (musician)

Master of the Mutable, in an Idiom All His Own

ON a recent Sunday, in the home stretch of a concert at Roulette, a new-music institution in SoHo, Henry Threadgill shut his eyes and flashed an enigmatic smile. His longtime ensemble, Zooid, was nearing the end of a labyrinthine, nearly hourlong world ...

From NATE CHINEN, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Anthony Braxton,  Meredith Monk,  Steve Reich,  Muhal Richard Abrams

Music Review | Ben Williams: Leading From the Bottom Notes

The bassist Ben Williams took several long solos in his first set at the Jazz Gallery on Thursday night, and each one felt more like an entitlement than an indulgence. Partly that was because of his tone: warm and sonorous, with a satisfying wooden ...

From NATE CHINEN, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Thelonious Monk,  Charlie Haden,  Ron Carter,  Dave Holland,  Christian McBride

Music Review | Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard: Visions of Kerouac, Honored in Song

Jay Farrar, of the Midwestern alternative-country band Son Volt, and Benjamin Gibbard, of the Northwestern indie-rock band Death Cab for Cutie, embody two species of singer-songwriter: one stoic, the other swoony. (You can guess which is which.) What ...

From NATE CHINEN, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jay Farrar,  Son Volt (musician),  Jack Kerouac,  Nick Harmer

Playlist: Moods Unsettling, Reflective, Eerie and Crunchy

The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. Kurt Rosenwinkel's new group, the Standards Trio, has an album almost entirely of covers: “Reflections.” All of the music ...

From NATE CHINEN, The New York Times,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Kurt Rosenwinkel,  Wilco (musician),  Eric Revis (musician),  Wayne Shorter,  Thelonious Monk

Music Review | Mofro: Out of the Swamp, Dripping With Both Wildness and Cool

In the first few moments of Friday morning, J J Grey was in the middle of a lean, casually nimble guitar solo, sounding a bit like a young Jerry Garcia. His band, Mofro, had a lock on a sharply credible funk groove, playing “Ho Cake,” a tune from its 20 ...

From NATE CHINEN, The New York Times,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Mofro,  Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza,  Shooter Jennings,  Jerry Garcia,  Waylon Jennings

Jazz Listings

The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. JOHNATHAN BLAKE GROUP (Friday and Saturday) Johnathan Blake is a drummer equally capable of muscular propulsion and subtle ...

From NATE CHINEN, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ron Carter,  Village Vanguard,  Tom Harrell,  Cornel West,  Bruce Edwards

Music Review | Brooklyn Big Band Bonanza: A Lot Like Big Bands, but Far Less Inhibited

Opening with a scrupulous fanfare and closing with an outbreak of anarchy, the Brooklyn Big Band Bonanza fulfilled much of its promise at the Bell House on Monday night. It was a gathering of three upstart ensembles the Secret Society, the Industrial ...

From NATE CHINEN, The New York Times,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Darcy James Argue,  Bjork,  Becca (musician),  Charles Mingus (musician),  Frank Zappa

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