Violinist Zach Brock, bassist Matt Ulery, and drummer Jon Deitemyer first started playing together in 2005 in Chicago. It was a musical companionship that made sense and held to various degrees over the years, overcoming Brock's move to New York and how time and friendships can naturally grow and evolve. The three have grown most respectable careers in their own way but that … [Read more...]
Jesse Fischer – ‘Day Dreamer’
Pianist/keyboardist Jesse Fischer has always focused on the groove in his music. It's a bent of his that can at times lean to a kind of populism, it can also at times feel like overseasoning. Yet Fischer's latest album, Day Dreamer, and album from the new father, an album more rested, more settled, is his most straightforward collection of songs yet.The R&B influence that … [Read more...]
The Stanley Clarke Band Does Jazz Right at the Carver
Stanley Clarke is able to bring out an interesting cross section of folks. I personally attended the Stanley Clarke Band's June 2 performance at the Jo Long Theater of San Antonio's Carver Community Cultural Center with my parents, aunt, and uncle in tow. My parents had pants and hair respectively pressed. My uncle in t-shirt in jeans. Such was the range of the crowd-- filled … [Read more...]