Pianist Frank Woeste has been helming a project, which to our chagrin we are only now learning about, called “The Libretto Dialogues”, in which he duets with other key figures of the jazz cognoscenti including Mark Turner, Tigran Hamasyan, and Larry Grenadier, akin to saxophonist Ben Wendel’s "The Seasons" Project. It goes to show that great minds think alike or maybe that … [Read more...]
Ryan Keberle & Frank Woeste (feat. Jeff Ballard & Vincent Courtois) – ‘Reverso: Suite Ravel’
In 1928 French classical composer Maurice Ravel said: “You Americans take jazz too lightly. You seem to see it as a music of little value, vulgar and ephemeral. In my point of view, it is jazz that will give rise to the national music of the United States.” Fittingly, almost 90 years later, American trombonist and composer Ryan Keberle and French pianist and composer Frank … [Read more...]