ECM Records will be capping its 50 year anniversary celebration tonight with an epic concert live from Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. Featuring a who’s who of modern jazz cognoscente including Joe Lovano, Craig Taborn, Vijay Iyer, Ravi Coltrane, Bill Frisell, Mark Turner, Larry Grenadier, Ethan Iverson, Fabian Almazan, Dezron Douglas, Shai Maestro, Ziv Ravitz, Nasheet … [Read more...]
Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints – “Libra”
Saxophonist Joe Lovano is a musician whose career I have been following for quite some time. His sound is timeless and exciting gaining momentum and grace as the years elapse. His latest outing, Scandal sees him reuniting Sound Prints, the quintet he co-leads with trumpeter Dave Douglas and featuring the stellar rhythm section of Lawrence Fields (Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, … [Read more...]
Guitar Night at the Montreal International Jazz Festival
On Monday, June 29, 2015 at the 36th edition of the Montreal International Jazz Festival, I went to hear two quartets led by two of the most influential guitarists of our time: the Kurt Rosenwinkel New Quartet featuring Aaron Parks (piano and Fender Rhodes), Eric Revis (upright bass), and Allan Mednard (drums) and the John Scofield / Joe Lovano Quartet with Larry Grenadier … [Read more...]
David Lyttle Releases ‘Faces’
I hadn’t heard of David Lyttle before I contacted Lyte Records, the label he runs, regarding Aidan Carroll’s Original Vision. Since then I’ve been following Lyte Records on Twitter and noticed tweets about Lyttle’s new release Faces which I didn’t pay much attention to until yesterday when he mentioned a collaboration with legendary rapper Talib Kweli. I headed over to Lyte Reco … [Read more...]
Sound Prints – ‘Live at Monterey Jazz Festival’
Sound Prints, the quintet co-led by trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Joe Lovano, will be releasing its debut album, Live at Monterey Jazz Festival, on April 7. Douglas and Lovano are joined by Linda Oh on bass, Lawrence Fields on piano, and Joey Baron on drums. Along with two originals each from Douglas and Lovano, the band takes on two newly written tunes from Wayne … [Read more...]