Bill Beuttler
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12/14/11 Concerts
Miguel Zenón/Vijay Iyer @ Berklee, 12/9/11
A double-bill features two of today's best
11/16/11 Albums
Good Old Light
Dave King Trucking Company
Dave King’s career sounds as ferociously energized as his playing. Best known for his high-octane drumming with the Bad Plus, King also belongs to eight other bands, according to his website. If that weren’t enough, last year he released a solo album of...
11/09/11 Albums
From Sun to Sun
Sam Yahel
Bill Beuttler reviews the new release from keyboardist Sam Yahel, 'From Sun to Sun'
10/30/11 Albums
The Bouncer
Cedar Walton
Bill Beuttler reviews the latest release from piano great Cedar Walton
10/19/11 Albums
Voyager: Live by Night
Eric Harland
Drummer's first album as leader is "fresh, powerful stuff"
10/16/11 Albums
Ninety Miles
Stefon Harris/David Sánchez/Christian Scott
Bring three of jazz’s brightest stars to Havana and pair them with two of Cuba’s best young pianists and their quartets. It took a year to make it happen, but that was the drill for Ninety Miles , the multimedia brainchild of Concord Music Group’s John Burk...
10/13/11 Concerts
Pat Metheny & Larry Grenadier in Boston
Wide-ranging setlist hits "Bright Size Life," Metheny/Mehldau cuts
10/05/11 Albums
David Binney's 'Barefooted Town'
Saxophonist assembles all-star, younger cast for new album
09/30/11 Concerts
Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival 2011
Terri Lyne Carrington, James Farm, Danilo Pérez and Gary Burton highlight this versatile fest
08/30/11 Albums
Woods & Mays
Phil Woods & Bill Mays
When Bill Mays took over the piano chair in the Phil Woods Quintet for the departing Bill Charlap a few years ago, Woods began thinking he and Mays should record a duo album. This past September they spent three hours doing so, and Woods & Mays is the result...
08/26/11 Albums
Legacy
Gerald Wilson Orchestra
Gerald Wilson’s new album, Legacy , is aptly titled. His son Anthony Wilson and grandson Eric Otis each contribute a composition to the project, which is anchored by Wilson’s own seven-part suite Yes Chicago Is… , a celebration of his home through much of...
08/16/11 Albums
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Benny Green
Pianist Benny Green explains in the notes accompanying his new album that it’s his first trio recording as a leader in 10 years. “I just wasn’t motivated to have a band,” he writes, and it’s tempting to think he spent the time sulking, Achilles-like, because...
08/07/11 Albums
Live at Smalls
Bruce Barth Trio
Bruce Barth is a jazzman’s jazzman (and a pianist’s pianist) in much the same way certain authors are known as writer’s writers: much-admired by his peers and the cognoscenti but largely unknown to the wider public. Still, even without the recognition he...
07/08/11 Albums
Caribbean Rhapsody
James Carter
Bill Beuttler reviews new album from saxophonist who showcases orchestral and solo work
05/24/11 Albums
Gladwell
Julian Lage
There was a time not so long ago when merging jazz with other genres tended to involve either fusing it with rock rhythms or going a more European-classical route (à la artists associated with the ECM label). These days, though, musicians are casting wider...
05/17/11 Albums
Live at Birdland
Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian
An early favorite for best live release of 2011, Live at Birdland documents extended improvisations on a half-dozen jazz and pop standards over two nights in December 2009. Lee Konitz, Charlie Haden and Brad Mehldau had done something similar in Los Angeles...
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