Pianist Bill Charlap is a two-time Grammy Award nominee who has performed with icons such as Tony Bennett, Phil Woods and Gerry Mulligan, and served as musical director for the Blue Note 7. Canadian-born Renee Rosnes is a four-time Juno Award winner who has collaborated with legends like Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson and J.J. Johnson, …
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New Music – Bob
Stockholm, Sweden, native Andreas Oberg is quickly becoming one of the most admired guitarists on the jazz scene today. Don Heckman of the Los Angeles Times has noted that “Oberg has mastered everything from bebop and swing to bossa nova, Gypsy jazz and fusion, enhanced with youthful, rock-driven vigor. His playing is, at times, an …
New Music by Regina Carter – Bob
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 …
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 …