Celebratory Finale at Reverie: CD Release for The Living Room Sessions
© Andrea Canter (Note: Article based on press release from Shifting Paradigm Records) After nearly three years, including one major schedule change and rebranding of the venue, Thursday Night...
Various Artists: “The Passion Of Charlie Parker” (Impulse, 2017)
I’ll be honest, when I pulled this one out of the padded envelope, I thought: “It’s the answer to a musical question nobody asked.” Vocalese tributes to instrumental lions...
Joel Shapira: In Essence (2017)
The guitar, and its distant kin, the piano, are self-contained orchestras. Few other instruments possess their range in dynamics and melodic potential. If you’re going to master either, it...
Teri Roiger’s “Ghost of Yesterday: Shades of Lady Day” (2017, Dot Time Records)
A steady if under-rated presence on the modern jazz vocal scene, Teri Roiger most recently interpreted one of her strongest muses, Abbey Lincoln (Dear Abbey, Inner Circle Music, 2013)....
Crash Test: Hoaxer’s Debut Recording (2017, Illicit Productions)
© Andrea Canter [Ed. note: This review is taken from the CD release promotion article previously published on Jazz Police.] At the end of 2015, four young collegians spent...
Hoaxer’s “Crash Test”: Debut CD Release at Vieux Carre’ on June 2
© Andrea Canter “…sure to be one of the more important collaborations of young jazz musicians to emerge from Minnesota in a long #8221; –Steve Kenny (Producer) and Bill...
Chris Potter Quartet: “The Dreamer Is The Dream”, at the Dakota on May 31
© Andrea Canter “The Dreamer Is the Dream is a testament to Potter’s composing as much as to his multi-reed instrumentality. He penned each of the compositions here and...
DeJohnette, Grenadier, Medeski, Scofield: “Hudson” (Motema Records)
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Louis Hayes: Serenade For Horace (Blue Note)
Blue Note Records has given a home to arguably the greatest recording artists in jazz for many decades. Like all major record labels, particularly those devoted to so-called...
Red Planet With Bill Carrothers: CD Celebrations in the Dunsmore Room , April 18-19
© Andrea Canter “Carrothers’ feathery textures go nicely with the wave of effects Dean Magraw wrings from his guitar…bassist Chris Bates and drummer Jay Epstein spin the eruptions with...
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem Presents The Savory Collection
© Sheila Horne Mason Packed away for decades, and for a long time only rumored to exist, the Savory Collection was acquired by The National Jazz Museum in Harlem in...
Cecile McLorin Salvant: “Woman Child” (Mack Avenue, 2013)
© Andrea Canter Ed note: This review first published on Jazz in June 2013. “If music came with a ‘100% natural and organic” sticker, this CD would have...
A Fresher Breath of Air: Natalia M. King’s “Bluezzin ‘Til Dawn” (Challenge, 2016)
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Curtis Stigers: “One More for the Road” (Concord, 2017)
© Kevin O’Connor “What the world needs now is another folk singer, like I need a hole in my head. What the world needs now is another Frank Sinatra,...
Can You Believe It? JC Sanford and Quartet Celebrate CD Release at the Icehouse, January 23
© Andrea Canter “JC Sanford – the go-to music conductor for the forward-looking bands of John Hollenbeck, Joel Harrison, Alan Ferber and others, including the legendary Alice Coltrane –...
Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog Triple Header — Celebrating “Twin Cities Jazz Sampler II,” December 10
In 2014, Illicit Productions, under the leadership of Steve Kenny, compiled and released the first volume of the Twin Cities Jazz Sampler, a collection tracks from 13 recent local...
John Raymond’s Real Feels: “Live: Volume One”
“I feel like the album captures the seed of something on its way to becoming more honest and beautiful, and I think there’s a certain “magic” to that that...
David Martin and Mike Doolin Bring New Recording to Five Venues, November 28-December 2
Long-time cohorts in Portland, Oregon, guitarists/bassists David Martin and Mike Doolin teamed up on the well-regarded Reflections (2009), and in 2014, repeated the collaboration on Tough Commute. (Once Martin...
Joyce Lyons Releases “A Song for You”
“It’s about the words. My voice teacher told me, ‘Your job is not to be the best singer in the world—there’ll always be someone better. Your job is to...
Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog: Illicit Sextet CD Release, Olson-Byers Duo on November 12
One of the most area popular ensembles of the late 1980s and early 90s, the Illicit Sextet was dubbed “the Cadillac of local jazz” by critic Jim Meyer. In...