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Articles Written by: WILL LAYMAN
Shine! is the second collection from the J.D. Allen Trio, a jazz group with a laser focus and serious skills. This is a tenor saxophone trio—the leader on tenor, Gregg August on bass, and drummer Rudy Royston—working without the chordal sugar of piano ...
From WILL LAYMAN,
PopMatters,
24 Nov 2009
Jazz—or creative/improvised music if you prefer to take an artsy stance—doesn’t get much more incandescent than Eternal Interludes, the latest recording by the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble. Hollenbeck’s music shimmers like Phillip Glass, it dances ...
From WILL LAYMAN,
PopMatters,
24 Nov 2009
There is not a ton of wit in jazz, that too-often-somber music. Besides, can a saxophone tell a joke?
A drum kit, however ... Or so it seems with Matt Wilson, a post-modern musician whose bands and recordings always seem to have a hip, snappy manner, ...
From WILL LAYMAN,
PopMatters,
10 Nov 2009
Bluegrass is no-fooling-around music. There is no faking it. Lean, no fat on its bones: bluegrass is stripped down to the basics and requires serious chops. Rhonda Vincent and her band have them.
Vincent has a long history as a recording artist. ...
From WILL LAYMAN,
PopMatters,
2 Nov 2009
Pianist Vijay Iyer is happy to stun you, to knock you into awe, to blow your mind. He brings technique, imagination, and wide perspective to his art. Historicity, the first recording wholly devoted to Iyer’s trio with bassist Stephen Crump and drummer ...
From WILL LAYMAN,
PopMatters,
26 Oct 2009
There was a time, perhaps, when playing jazz was much more a matter of soul than technique. But that time—if it ever truly existed—is decades gone.
Today there are scores of jazz studies programs in colleges and universities in every region of the ...
From WILL LAYMAN,
PopMatters,
22 Oct 2009
In 2007, the jazz pianist Robert Glasper released In My Element, a recording by his trio that demonstrated that jazz—utterly on its own terms—could absorb the rhythmic innovations of hip hop. Glasper, Vicente Archer on bass, and drummer Damion Reid ...
From WILL LAYMAN,
PopMatters,
13 Oct 2009
Fred Hersch is a consistently inventive and beautiful jazz pianist. I call him a beautiful jazz pianist not because all of his playing results in conventionally “pretty” playing—though there is no shortage of lyricism and consonance in his work. ...
From WILL LAYMAN,
PopMatters,
13 Oct 2009
O, Monterey Quartet! How splendidly you play your jazz instruments! I listen to you with wonder and some exhaustion. I thrill to your skill… and maybe I stop listening just a little bit.
O, modern jazz music! You contain a barrel full of notes, don’ ...
From WILL LAYMAN,
PopMatters,
7 Oct 2009
Have you seen the jazz/groove trio Medeski, Martin, and Wood in concert? Fans will tell you, it’s a fun, loose-limbed experience. “MMW” play long, rhythmic jams, and so fans of bands like Phish and the Grateful Dead crowd these jazz shows, creating a ...
From WILL LAYMAN,
PopMatters,
6 Oct 2009
