March 2009
14 posts
Five nights at Yoshi's
As part of Joshua Redman’s trio, Matt Penman is embarking on five nights straight in Yoshi’s Jazz Club and Japanese restuarant, in Oakland from the 1st of April. Greg Hutchinson will be on drums, a partnership that Branford Marsalis was particularly impressed by when he joined the trio for a one-off last year. “Hutch plays so beautifully, he’s the perfect foil for Josh, because it’s always nice to...
Telegraph article in the paper
Here it is in all its glory. Don’t forget you can still get the first Bach Cello Suite free today only.
Celebrating our launch in the Telegraph with a...
Today, we launch officially in the Telegraph! Ivan Hewett has written a great article here about live music video, and we’re offering all readers and visitors a free download of Claudio Bohorquez’s performance of Bach’s first Cello Suite. Here’s a preview for your delectation:
Watch the video and click on “Download full version” to find out more.
Launching in the Telegraph today - http://tinyurl.com/cldmc6
Fellner's Beethoven cycle latest
Charles Downey’s blow-by-blow account of Till Fellner’s recent concert at the Austrian Embassy is in. ‘Fellner did not play on the Austrian Embassy’s Bösendorfer, favoring instead a Steinway borrowed locally and delivered especially for his recital. When asked after the recital if he had tried the Bösendorfer Fellner noted laconically, as he sipped a well-earned glass of beer, “Yes - burn it.”’
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Penman and the Collective Go West
The SFJAZZ Collective’s visit to The Egg generated a couple of interesting features in the New York press, here and here. From March 13 - 15, the Collective is performing in Catalina. To follow its progress and catch a gig, have a glance through the blog of their bassist, Matt Penman. (Here he is playing his own composition Patche with Hayden Chisholm and John Taylor at the Plush festival...
Adrian Wilson and Tim Horton at Upper Chapel
In a lunchtime concert at Upper Chapel on 7 April, Tim Horton’s pairing up with Ensemble 360’s oboist Adrian Wilson (pictured) to perform Schumann’s Romances, Op. 94, considered one of the greatest works for oboe.
They ought to do it justice: Adrian’s already won over the local music scene, with the Sheffield Telegraph asking, “Not just in this country, where in the world would you find a...
John Taylor "demonstrates ongoing growth". (This,...
In fact John Kelman’s head-turning article on All About Jazz goes a lot further, setting John’s new album Phases up rather flatteringly against the work of Keith Jarrett. (And so say all of us.)
Here, by way of a taster, is John Taylor with his new trio Breve performing his composition “Pure and Simple” at the Music at Plush festival in 2007.
Schubert does a fantastic slow movement
Our producer’s been getting some clips of Aleksander Madzar’s concert online and has fallen in love with the Schubert Sonata:
Lovely.
“with Adrian Brendel and Tim Horton while they check over their Brahms sonatas -...”
– Plushmusic
Renee Rosnes and the SFJAZZ Collective take...
Matt Penman:
Pianist and composer David Ryshpan has written a handsome piece on the SFJAZZ Collective’s concert at Metropolis last Friday (27 February).
The collective’s featured composer this year, McCoy Tyner, was celebrated more than imitated, with Canadian-born pianist Renee Rosnes (can anyone tell us what she’s wearing? And, more to the point, why?) giving Tyner’s open fifths, quartal...
Taylor's Phases: 'some of the most astonishingly...
John Taylor:
John’s new album is raking in the paudits. Here are links to reviews by Phil Johnson in the Independent and The Jazz Breakfast
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Frank Gratkowski plays New Orleans
Frank Gratkowski:
On Tuesday 24 March, Franki’s part of the Open Ears Music Series, upstairs at The Blue Nile on Frenchmen St, New Orleans. Get an early night first: it’s a 10pm start, and he’s playing two sets, featuring his trio Touch, Jeff Albert, and “others TBA”.
http://www.gratkowski.com/
Blue Nile. 532 Frenchmen St. New Orleans, LA 70116
Ian Carr dies aged 75
Ethan Ames:
Ian Carr, the trumpeter and author whose career encompassed bebop, jazz-rock fusion and the avant garde, died on February 25, 2009.
Ian Carr and his band Nucleus in 2005
Obituaries have appeared in The Times, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian.
While he’s been rightly praised as a teacher, proselyter and critic, it’s Carr’s playing that will outlast him...