Photographer Melody McLaren was at the Jazz Cafe, completely packed with a young audience to see the launch of “Faithful One” (Whirlwind Recordings), with support from Oreglo and GW Jazz. Melody photographed the gig. She writes: “It really was like [...]
The instrumentation of Deadeye is a Hammond trio, consisting of Kit Downes, Dutch guitarist Reinier Baas and German drummer (the uncannily Doppelgängerish!) Jonas Burgwinkel. But, as Tony Dudley-Evans pointed out in his REVIEW of their debut album for LJN: “[Downes’s] [...]
Oblong Aplomb is a double album on the innovative, Brooklyn and Richmond, Virginia-based Out Of Your Head Records; it has 24 relatively short tracks featuring pianist Matt Mitchell playing on 12 tracks each with drummer Kate Gentile and drummer/percussionist Ches Smith. Mitchell seems to be [...]
Flanders has a decades-long history of producing exceptionally good musicians, particularly in jazz. There are too many notable keyboardists to mention but Bram de Looze and Alex Koo belong to the current group of outstanding young players. On Etudes for [...]
American (now German-based) pianist Richie Beirach has enjoyed a career spanning five-plus decades, over the course of which he has played in the bands of Chet Baker and Stan Getz, been part of one of jazz’s most historic duos with [...]
