Through her albums, incessant touring and various guest appearances and collaborations over the years, Regina Carter has developed into a distinctly diverse musical personality. With “Reverse Thread”, the preeminent violinist has taken a giant step forward by recording a CD primarily of African folk tunes infused with a contemporary feel. Without the support of the …
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New Music: Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Phil Woods, Dr. Lonnie – Bob
The last time Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden were together on record was a live disc in 1976, a document from the final days of Jarrett’s great American Quartet. In the interim, the two have each separately given renewed attention to the music of the Great American Songbook, Jarrett in his widely-admired Standards ensembles, and …
KCCK Relatives Remembered
With the coming of Memorial Day 2010, some KCCK staffers’ fathers, who are no longer with us, are being remembered for their service during war-time. George Dorman’s father, Jack Dorman, was in the U.S. Army for nearly four years during World War II. Most of that time was spent in northern Africa, where he was …
New Music: Fusion Redux, Trumpet Summit – Bob
More than three decades after his earliest recordings, keyboardist and composer Jeff Lorber has come full circle. His new CD, “Now is the Time”, delves back into his early catalog and reinvents some of the most compelling compositions from the Jeff Lorber Fusion heyday. This new incarnation of the Fusion includes luminaries like bassist Jimmy …
New Music – Jazz: American, French and Serbian – Bob
Joe Chambers is one of the drummers from the Fifties and Sixties who, along with Max Roach and Art Blakey, has influenced an entire generation of drummers. Archie Shepp, in fact, compared Chambers’ qualities as a sensitive yet dynamic drummer to another influential drummer, Roy Haynes. For his new CD, “Horace to Max”, Chambers has …
New Music: Britos, One for All, Ray Blue – Bob
Imagine a violinist, born in South America, equally adept at playing classical, jazz, Latin idioms and music for films; a musician with a sound that is at home in a symphony hall or on 52nd Street; an artist who has worked with a staggering array of far-flung superstars, such as Duke Ellington, Astor Piazzolla, Bebo …
New Music from Terrasson, HCOD, Others – Bob
Ever since Jacky Terrasson burst onto the jazz scene in 1993 by winning the Thelonius Monk Piano Competition, the Berlin-born, Paris-raised, New York-based pianist extraordinaire has consistently recorded richly refined and remarkably free-spirited music. His new disc, “Push”, features a new working trio that includes recent Monk Competition winner Ben Williams on bass, Jamire Williams …
New Music – Nnenna, Trombone Shorty, Stanton Moore – Bob
Esteemed jazz vocalist and six-time Grammy nominee Nnenna Freelon offers up her first studio album in five years, “Homefree”, a soulful swinging disc that she calls her “home brew.” The collection is comprised largely of contemporary interpretations of classic American Songbook tunes, along with a new original and spirited arrangements of two anthems. “Most of …