Tag: Francois Houle

3
Jan

New York @ Night: January 2013

Happy New Year again! From the January 2013 issue of The New York City Jazz Record: — As a student of Lennie Tristano and a noted colleague of Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh, tenor saxophonist Ted Brown provides a living link to the Tristano school — an intriguing area in jazz history, somewhere in the interstices between bop and “cool.”

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1
Sep

Six Picks: September 2012

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, September 2012: Riccardo Fassi, Sitting in a Song (Alice) Jürgen Friedrich, Monosuite for String Orchestra and Improvisers (Pirouet) Fred Hersch Trio, Alive at the Vanguard (Palmetto) François Houle 5 + 1, Genera (Songlines) Hafez Modirzadeh, Post-Chromodal Out! (Pi) Arturo O’Farrill, The Noguchi Sessions (Zoho)