Album Review: Harold O'Neal's 'Marvelous Fantasy'
Douglas Detrick reviews Marvelous Fantasy, the solo album by pianist Harold O'Neal, featuring music inspired both by jazz and by composers such as Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy.
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Album Review: 'If the Past Seems So Bright' by Jeremy Udden's Plainville
Jonathan Lindhorst reviews If the Past Seems So Bright by Jeremy Udden. The album is the second by Udden that features Plainville, his band featuring keyboardist Pete Rende, guitarist and banjoist Brandon Seabrook, bassist Eivind Opsvik, and drummer R.J. Miller.
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Album Review: Tim Berne and 'Snakeoil'
Douglas Detrick reviews Tim Berne's Snakeoil, an album featuring clarinetist Oscar Noriega, pianist Matt Mitchell, and drummer Ches Smith.
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Concert Review: Bassist Zack Lober's Ancestry Project
Jonathan Lindhorst reviewed bassist, composer, and turntablist Zack Lober's Ancestry Project, performed at the IBeam performance space in Brooklyn on January 27th. The music drew from a range of styles, and was written as accompaniment to a pre-recorded interview with Lober's grandfather, who was a Canadian bandleader in the 1950s.
The band included pianist John Escreet, saxophonists Dave Binney and Chet Doxas, and drummer Dan Weiss.
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Artist Profile: Pianist Herbie Hancock
Read about pianist Herbie Hancock, from his early days with the Miles Davis Quintet, to his current career of balancing popular music styles with jazz.
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Artist Profile: Saxophonist and Composer Wayne Shorter
A new artist profile for the jazz logs: saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter.
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Album Review: 'Polylemma' by Hertenstein, Heberer, Niggenkemper, and Badenhorst
Read Douglas Detrick's review of Polylemma, the album by drummer Joe Hertenstein, trumpeter Thomas Heberer, bass clarinetist Joachim Badenhorst, and bassist Pascal Niggemkemper.
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Album Review: 'Frame' by Ben Wendel
Jon Lindhorst reviews Frame, the new album by saxophonist, bassoonist(?!), and composer Ben Wendel, featuring pianists Tigran Hamasyan, Adam Benjamin, Gerald Clayton, guitarist Nir Felder, bassist Ben Street, and drummer Nate Wood.
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2011: A Year in Reviews
Happy New Year from jazz.about.com. Check out my list of favorite jazz reviews and interviews of 2011!
RIP Sam Rivers
Sam Rivers died on December 26th in Orlando, Florida. The saxophonist who played too "out" for Miles Davis back in the '60s was 88 years old. Read his artist profile.
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