Few trombone players in Steve Turre’s generation have pushed the boundaries of their instrument further than he has. Born of the blue, hard bopping swing of JJ Johnson and the human speech-like growls and smears...
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Luis Perdomo – The ‘Infancia’ Project
It is hard to go back and dig deep once something is put in the past and locked down. Miles Davis showed this when he was asked ever so often to perform music that he...
Andy and Jerry’s: A Tribute to the González Brothers
ARTURO O’ FARRILL AND THE AFRO LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA ANDY AND JERRY’S: A TRIBUTE TO THE GONZALEZ BROTHERS PETER NORTON SYMPHONY SPACE, NEW YORK OCTOBER 14 AND 13, 2011 Performance Review and Commentary by New...
Michael Simon – New York Encounter (Fresh Sound – 2009)
It is not obvious that Michael Simon is a native of Venezuela, who owes as much to that tradition as he does to the jazz one that he weaves in and out of. But then nothing is obvious about Michael Simon: not his trumpet-playing antecedents, nor his compositional ones, or who he follows—figuratively-speaking, of course. However, it is safe to say that his musical voice burns with a quiet fire, just like that of his brother, the pianist, Edward [...]