Tag: Drew Gress
Six Picks: August 2013
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, August 2013: Jim Black, Antiheroes (Winter & Winter) Drew Gress, The Sky Inside (Pirouet) Geoffrey Keezer, Heart of the Piano (Motéma) Chris Morrissey, North Hero (Sunnyside) Gary Peacock & Marilyn Crispell, Azure (ECM) Eric Revis, City of Asylum (Clean Feed)
On Luis Perdomo
This review appears in the September 2012 issue of The New York City Jazz Record. — Luis Perdomo Universal Mind (RKM) By David R. Adler On Universal Mind, his fourth outing as a leader, pianist Luis Perdomo embraces a hard-swinging piano trio aesthetic, mixing it up with bassist Drew Gress and Jack DeJohnette. It’s a logical move: his 2006 disc
On Gerald Cleaver
This review appears in the March 2011 issue of The New York City Jazz Record: — Gerald Cleaver’s Uncle June Be It As I See It (Fresh Sound New Talent) By David R. Adler It’s scarcely an exaggeration to say that drummer Gerald Cleaver can play everything: from the down-the-middle postbop of Jeremy Pelt to the free-blowing fury of Charles