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Paul Motian

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Although he studied drums in the Navy School of Music in Washington, there has never been anything militaristic about Paul Motian's prolific work as a jazz drummer. In the mid-1950s, he played with a host of jazz stars including Stan Getz, George Russell and Thelonious Monk, but his major association was with pianist Bill Evans, both in Evans's trio and as a member of other groups, such as the quartet led by clarinettist Tony Scott. With Bill Evans, he developed a way of playing that mirrored the pianist's phrasing and approach, often abandoning aspects of the drummer's traditional time-keeping role
At The Deer Head Inn: The Complete Recordings

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Solar; Basin Street Blues; Chandra; You Don't Know What Love Is; You And The Night And The Music; Bye
Bye Blackbird; It's Easy To Remember; Everything I Love; I Fall In Love Too Easily; Straight No Chaser; All of
You; Someday My Prince Will Come; The Old Country; Golden Earrings; How Long Has This Been Going On
Explorations

By Bill Evans
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Israel;
Haunted Heart;
Beautiful Love" [Take 2];
Elsa;
Nardis;
How Deep Is the Ocean?;
I Wish I Knew;
Sweet and Lovely.
Hingetown Jazz Festival 2025

by John Chacona
Hingetown Jazz Festival Various venues Cleveland, OH August 30, 2025 It would surprise no one if this review of the third Hingetown Jazz Festival in Cleveland began, as such pieces often do, by noting how the festival has grown. But that would not exactly be accurate. By the most ...
Sven Åke-Johansson: Two Days at Cafe OTO

by Fran Kursztejn
Sven Åke-Johansson's death in 2025 felt distinctly like a chapter closed. There is a cliche in Jazz to characterize players of a certain class and longstanding influence as youthful" or otherwise endlessly inventive despite multi-decade, multidisciplinary careers. Its excessive use is justified by elements of the medium's own construction and history. Jazz itself appears to be ...
Alex Harding, Lucian Ban: Blutopia

by Neri Pollastri
Il pianista Lucian Ban e il sassofonista baritono Alex Harding, assidui collaboratori dalla fine degli anni Novanta, riuniscono qui un quintetto di stelle per interpretare una musica assai diversificata di brano in brano e la cui sintesi è forse espressa da una citazione del filosofo Ibn Al-Arabi riportata nel libretto, la quale celebra il movimento quale ...
Believers: Hard Believer

by Vincenzo Roggero
Veterano della scena downtown newyorchese (da ricordare almeno il Dave Douglas Tiny Bell Trio, il quartetto Pachora con Jim Black, Chris Speed e Skuli Sverrisson, le collaborazioni con Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill, Charlie Haden's Liberation Orchestra, le registrazioni con Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band o il Paradox Trio con Matt Darriau, Rufus Cappadocia e ...
Rebecca Martin: She

by Angelo Leonardi
Sono trascorsi esattamente trent'anni da quando la EMI pubblicò il debutto della 26enne Rebecca Martin (Once Blue), nel gruppo omonimo col bassista Ben Street, il chitarrista Kurt Rosenwinkel e il batterista Kenny Wollesen. Da allora la cantautrice ha pubblicato tredici album (sei da leader) con musicisti a lei particolarmente affini: non solo il marito Larry Grenadier ...
Andrea Motis, Ches Smith, and Noah Haidu

by Jerome Wilson
This program features modern jazz from Spain and Japan as well as older and newer music from the U. S. Musicians heard on the show include Andrea Motis, Ches Smith, Satoko Fujii, Keith Oxman, Milt Jackson, and Noah Haidu. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus ...