Tag: Matt Wilson
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.”
New York @ Night: April 2012
From the April 2012 issue of The New York City Jazz Record: — Drawing on material from his superb new Palmetto disc An Attitude for Gratitude, drummer Matt Wilson fronted his Arts and Crafts quartet in an inspired late Saturday set at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (March 3). Wilson is a funnyman in the finest Gillespie tradition, but watching him harness the
Six Picks: February 2012
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, February 2012: Jason Adasiewicz’s Sun Rooms, Spacer (Delmark) David Budway, A New Kiss (MaxJazz) Benoît Delbecq & François Houle, Because She Hoped (Songlines) Guilhem Flouzat, One Way… (ind.) Tineke Postma, The Dawn of Light (Challenge) Matt Wilson’s Arts & Crafts, An Attitude for Gratitude (Palmetto)