Rant ’N’ Roll: Genius Unfiltered – A Man Named Ivo Mike Greenblatt October 8, 2021 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll He’s a Brazilian with a rare disease who makes his home in New York City. Avant-Garde tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman has no known precedent for the kind of outer-space solos he takes. Maybe John Coltrane. When... Read More...
The Roots’ “Do You Want More?!!!??!?!!!??!” – How One Deluxe Edition Made 1995 Feel New Again Debra Kate Schafer June 28, 2021 Albums, Reviews From The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Clerks to The Princess Bride and Jennifer’s Body, cult classics are often understood as pieces of underrated, puzzling, or misinterpreted pieces of cinema. Sure, there ar... Read More...
Vilray at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 / June 15, 2021 Everynight Charley Crespo June 23, 2021 Columns, Concerts, Manhattan Beat, Reviews The vocalist, guitarist and songwriter known simply as Vilray (pronounced vill-ree) has an uncanny ability to bridge the past and the present. Vilray, who does not use his family name, was raised in Brooklyn a... Read More...
Eric Hutchinson’s “Jazz” Album: On Birth, Love, Death, and Fatherhood James Campion May 19, 2021 Buzz, Features BEFORE & AFTER LIFE: THE SOUNDTRACK OF COMING AND GOING It is a steamy August late-morning in 2018. Singer-songwriter Eric Hutchinson is in the studio with five jazz musicians he has essential... Read More...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Jazz Mike Greenblatt October 22, 2014 Columns Trilogy (Stretch Records/Concord Jazz), by Chick Corea, is a milestone recording in the piano legend’s 50-year career chronicling a world tour in trio format with master musicians (and leaders in their own ... Read More...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Jazz Festival Mike Greenblatt June 11, 2014 Columns Arguably the greatest jazz album of 2011 was When The Heart Emerges Glistening, a masterful debut from composer/trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, born and raised in Oakland, California. It had everything and wa... Read More...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Jazzin’ It Mike Greenblatt October 2, 2013 Columns The New York band of trumpeter Ralph Alessi is perfect for his mysterioso pilgrimages into outer and inner space on Baida (ECM). Time itself is altered on the title-track. It stands still, then seemingly mo... Read More...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Two Jazz Legends – Still Kickin’ Mike Greenblatt March 13, 2013 Columns I’m as guilty as the next jazz fan of listening mostly to dead guys. Monk, Miles, Mingus, Pops, Diz and Bird rule my roost. This doesn’t exactly perpetuate the future of the music. Be it known there are gen... Read More...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Jazz Alive And Well In 2012 Mike Greenblatt December 26, 2012 Columns My cousin Marla Kleman lives, breathes, eats and sleeps jazz. A former radio DJ, she now works at Scullers, Boston’s legendary jazz club. As a kid, Sarah Vaughan befriended her and called her “Little One.” ... Read More...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Jazzin’ It Mike Greenblatt September 19, 2012 Columns For only his eighth studio album since his 1983 Suddenly debut, multi-instrumentalist native New Yorker Marcus Miller, 63, (the man who wrote “Tutu” for Miles Davis) is back with the absolutely stunning and... Read More...
