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Richard Goode, Audra McDonald, Brad Mehldau to Perform at Gilmore Festival
Sunday, December 2, 2007
The schedule for the 2008 Gilmore Keyboard Festival has been released, and among the artists on the bill for the biannual event are Richard Goode, Audra McDonald, and the Brad Mehldau Trio. The Festival will be held April 24–May 13, in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Rolling Stone: "Metheny Thrives in a Trio Format"
Monday, February 25, 2008
Pat Metheny's latest record, Day Trip, his first trio record in years, joined here by bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez, was released late last month and made available in the Nonesuch Store with the two exclusive live bonus tracks. In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, critic David Fricke gives the new record four stars. He writes that Pat "doesn't make enough records in a trio setting" and this one "should not be the last" with McBride and Sanchez.
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Santa Barbara Independent: Bill Frisell This Week's Show of the Week
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
The Santa Barbara Independent takes advantage of the start of the New Year to combine the paper's list of the best of last year with a look at the best of what's to come. There Will Be Blood is among the best films of 2007, and among the city's best live shows last year, the Independent's Josef Woodard lists both Wilco's concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl in support of Sky Blue Sky and the Pat Metheny / Brad Mehldau Quartet gig at Campbell Hall.
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Pat Metheny
Secret Story
The New York Times called Pat Metheny’s 1992 Grammy-winning Secret Story “the most sweepingly ambitious album that the jazz guitarist has yet recorded … a nearly 80-minute world-music suite with symphonic underpinnings.” Includes five previously unreleased tracks restored by Metheny.
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SFJAZZ Collective
SFJAZZ Collective
Joshua Redman leads an all-star combo in a live survey of Ornette Coleman’s legacy, plus new material inspired by Coleman’s work. Billboard called this “a grand musical experiment”; the Los Angeles Times praised the octet’s “sheer out-of-the-box musicality.”
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SFJAZZ Collective
SFJAZZ Collective 2
In their second season, Joshua Redman and his all-star ensemble, including trumpeter Nicholas Payton and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, explore John Coltrane’s work. The New York Times proclaimed it one of the year’s best, “a vivid and engaging jazz outing.”
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The Secret of Bill Frisell's Success
Thursday, November 8, 2007
In a feature published earlier this month in All About Jazz, writer Nenad Georgievski examines the fruitful recording career of Bill Frisell, now approaching its quarter-century mark:
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Time Out NY Gives Punch Brothers' Debut Five Stars
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
When the band that would become Punch Brothers premiered Chris Thile's long-form piece The Blind Leaving the Blind in Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall for last year's In Your Ear festival curated by John Adams, it brought a standing ovation from the sold-out crowd. As Time Out New York's Steve Smith writes in his five-star review of the band's Nonesuch debut, Punch, that event was further proof that Thile is a composer unlike most others.
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Don Byron
Tuskegee Experiments
“He can take you to a place you may have avoided and make you feel comfortable there”. The Wall Street Journal described the musical world of Don Byron this way with good reason: his clarinet is equally at home in the music of Ellington, Schubert, Messiaen and Mickey Katz. As a sideman and collaborator Byron has already established himself as “arguably the best young jazz clarinetist in the country” (WSJ) . Now, on “Tuskegee Experiments”, his solo debut recording on Nonesuch, Byron lays claim to being among the most inventive and compelling musicians of his generation.