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.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

"What Makes Sense, What's Absurd"

June 30, 2011 As I write this, the windows are all open in the house. This is the first day in several weeks when the humidity level is...

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Hitting the High Notes (Part 2)

Back to the stack of new CDs, all worth exploring. Drummer-composer Jochen Rueckert is a versatile musicians, working in various genres f...

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Hitting the High Notes (Part 1)

Here's a quick look at a batch of good CDs. Alto saxophonist Phil Woods and pianist Bill Mays spent the day together on September 7,...

Monday, June 27, 2011

O, the Places the Mind Can Go

Alto saxophonist-composer David Binney is one of the busiest musicians on the contemporary music scene. Since the turn of the century, he ...

Monday, June 20, 2011

Trio Takes (Part 2)

First, the don'ts - Don't listen to " A Night at the Village Vanguard " (Pirouet), the new double CD from the Bill Carroth...

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Ensembles Large & Medium-sized + A Question

John Hollenbeck continues to move forward as a composer, arranger and drummer/percussionist. For the 10-member Orchestre National De Jazz, ...

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Fusion Not Confusion

One might think that the duo of Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein was put together just for " Bienestan " (Sunnyside) but, in a...

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