Will Layman’s review of The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12 Records), pianist/composer Myra Melford‘s new release with her acoustic sextet, Be Bread, was posted yesterday at PopMatters.com He’s the second contributor to the popular site to write about the record (following…
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PopMatters.com: Jessica Pavone’s Songs Of Synastry And Solitude (Tzadik)
February 9, 2010 – 8:56 am
Andrew Dietzel’s new review of violist/composer Jessica Pavone‘s latest recording, Songs of Synastry and Solitude (Tzadik), is now posted at PopMatters.com. “Pavone, with the help of the Toomai String Quintet, has crafted something sullenly beautiful, jarring and ominous in its minimalism,” he…
Fay Victor Makes Some Of PopMatters.com's Best Jazz Of 2009
December 16, 2009 – 10:33 am
Will Layman and Andrew Zender joined forces for this year’s edition of PopMatters.com’s The Best Jazz of 2009 feature, choosing 14 recordings divided into three categories: New Piano Trios, New Groups/New Sounds and Tradition Reinterpreted. The third category is where…
Fay Victor Ensemble Tonight At Roulette (NYC) + Sunday At The Rotunda (Philly)
October 1, 2009 – 8:04 am
Vocalist/composer Fay Victor and her longstanding quartet, The Fay Victor Ensemble, will celebrate their new release, The FreeSong Suite (Greene Avenue Music), tonight at Roulette in New York. A second CD release show will follow at The Rotunda in Philadelphia…
PopMatters.com + The Wire Review The Fully Celebrated
August 13, 2009 – 8:11 am
PopMatters.com’s Scott Hreha and The Wire‘s Philip Clark both weighed in on The Fully Celebrated’s most recent release, Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones (AUM Fidelity), in reviews published this week. Overall, the arrangements musically capture the latent…
iC Media Poll Results: Part 2
July 20, 2009 – 10:01 pm
Today we explore the results from the second of five sections of our recent survey of 50 prominent jazz writers and editors. This section, called Web and print habits, asked about the jazz-related publications, blogs and Web sites these professionals…
Farmers By Nature Reviewed At PopMatters.com
March 19, 2009 – 9:58 am
Scott Hreha weighs in on the latest AUM Fidelity release, Farmers By Nature (AUM 053), in his review for PopMatters.com, posted March 18th. He writes, “this 65-minute improvised set by drummer Gerald Cleaver, bassist William Parker and pianist Craig Taborn…
Shakti Reviewed At PopMatters.com
February 19, 2009 – 10:53 am
“Words themselves seem unable to capture the spirit of free jazz or to describe the sound of the music, especially when performed by such a master as tenor saxophonist David S. Ware and his combo,” writes PopMatters.com’s Steve Horowitz in…