Pavel Jany Celebrates “Acoustic Condition” at the Black Dog, October 20
© Andrea Canter A prolific performer, composer and bandleader, guitarist Pavel Jany takes time out from his multiple Brazilian...
Blue Note All-Stars: “Our Point Of View” (Blue Note Records, 2017)
If ever there was a jazz label more entitled to proclaim some of their stable “All-Stars,” Blue Note Records...
Hiromi/Edmar Castaneda, “Live in Montreal” (Telarc, 2017)
If you think about it, the harp is just a piano with its guts strewn about. Or, to be...
“Mysterious Thelonious”: Laura Caviani Marks Monk’s Centennial With New Recording and Concerts with Karrin Allyson, October 13-14
© Andrea Canter For many years, Twin Cities pianist Laura Caviani marked the October birthday of one of her...
Playing With “Joyfire”: Ted Olsen Quartet Celebrates CD Release at the Icehouse, September 20
© Andrea Canter It might be a contrived word, but “Joyfire” seems an apt description of the compositions and...
Kermit Ruffins and Irvin Mayfield: “A Beautiful World” (Basin Street, 2017)
There are but a scant few variables you can count on in this woeful world: Frozen pizza is...
Dee Dee Bridgewater: “Memphis…Yes I’m Ready” (Okeh, 2017)
Since the days of Billie and Ella, it is nearly impossible to find a jazz singer who wasn’t a...
Jana Nyberg 5 Celebrates New Album in the Dunsmore Room, August 11
© Andrea Canter A frequent performer throughout the Twin Cities on such stages as the Dakota, Vieux Carré, Crooners...
CD Reviews: New Orleans Flotilla, Crooner Abuse, and Hands Across the Baltic/Seine
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
