Step Tempest

Creative music should challenge us, make us think and move us forward. Music can make one's life better and fuller, one of life's greatest pleasures.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Beauty in Ballads

Before the Rain - Noah Preminger (Palmetto Records) - The 24-year old tenor saxophonist first came to critical attention in 2008 with the...

Friday, December 24, 2010

The Ones That (Nearly) Got Away (Saxophone edition)

Cerulean Landscape - Jason Robinson & Anthony Davis (Clean Feed) - Saxophonist, composer and educator Robinson has issued 3 CDs at th...

Thursday, December 23, 2010

The Ones That (Nearly) Got Away (guitars)

Okay, the semester is over, grades are posted with the registrar, and it's time to get back to the reviews. Hard to believe but "...

Sunday, December 19, 2010

ATreat Before the Holiday

David Cook "The Thing" (mp3) from "Pathway" (Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records) More On This Album In the mids...

Friday, December 10, 2010

Noah B "Know Thyself" Is On the Way

No review just a preview. Thanks to a "New Works" grant from the Chamber Music America/Doris Duke Foundation, p ianist-composer N...

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Best of 2010 (Part 2)

Rudresh Mahanthappa was nothing if not noticeable this past year. Besides one excellent and one very good "twin altos" CDs, he a...

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Double Tenor Fun

Bassist-composer Mario Pavone brings his Orange Double Tenor sextet to Firehouse 12 , 45 Crown Street in New Haven this Friday night (12/1...

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