2 of 5 Vincent Herring Vincent Herring s new album, Preaching To The Choir, features pianist Cyrus Chestnut, bassist Yasushi Nakamura and drummer Johnathan Blake.
JIMMY KATZ 3 of 5 Anna Webber
Saxophonist, flutist and composer Anna Webber features both her Simple Trio and a 12-piece band on Idiom. 4 of 5 John Patitucci John Pattituci s new album, Letter For Paul, is a tribute to the late bassist Paul Jackson.
Gus Cantavero Graham Haynes & Hardedge at Roulette in 2008
Roulette
Chris Potter Circuits Trio, Serpentine
Last month I spent a deeply gratifying hour or so in Central Park with a trio led by saxophonist Chris Potter, thanks to the Giant Step Arts series Walk with the Wind. Among other things, it was a welcome reminder of Potter s supreme command as an improviser, not to mention the salutary effects of the pandemic woodshed. This Friday he ll release an album that mars
The New York Times, and the only “jazz release” in
Rolling Stone’s list of the 50 best records of 2017. Iyer’s Sextet was voted 2018 Jazz Group of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association.
Iyer’s previous ECM releases include
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (2016), a collaboration with Iyer’s “hero, friend and teacher,” Wadada Leo Smith, which
The Los Angeles Times calls “haunting, meditative and transportive”;
Break Stuff (2015), with a coveted five-star rating in
DownBeat Magazine, featuring the Vijay Iyer Trio, hailed by
PopMatters as “the best band in jazz”;
Mutations (2014), featuring Iyer’s music for piano, string quartet and electronics, which “extends and deepens his range. showing a delicate, shimmering, translucent side of his playing” (
Ralph Peterson Jr., performing in 2012 at Symphony Space in New York.
Ralph Peterson Jr., a drummer, bandleader, composer and educator whose lunging propulsion and volatile combustion were hallmarks of a jazz career spanning more than 40 years, died on Monday in North Dartmouth, Mass. The cause was complications from cancer, his manager, Laura Martinez, tells NPR Music; Peterson had been living with the disease for the last six years. He was 58.
The sheer, onrushing force of Peterson s beat, paired with his alert ear and agile dynamism, made him one of the standout jazz musicians to emerge in the 1980s. Part of a striving peer group known as the Young Lions, which coalesced around the resurgence of acoustic hard bop, he distinguished himself early on as a powerful steward of that tradition.
Ralph Peterson Jr., a drummer, bandleader, composer and educator whose lunging propulsion and volatile combustion were hallmarks of a jazz career spanning
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