Bill Meredith
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02/02/13 DVDs
Live in Marciac
Hiromi
Japanese pianist Hiromi left fans perplexed when she disbanded her trio with fellow Berklee alumni Tony Grey (bass) and Martin Valihora (drums) after several standout releases. Yet that trio, often augmented by guitarist David Fiuczynski, built its incredible...
01/19/13 Albums
HBC
Scott Henderson/Jeff Berlin/Dennis Chambers
As power trios go, it doesn’t get much more powerful than guitarist Scott Henderson, bassist Jeff Berlin and drummer Dennis Chambers. Like an update of the McLaughlin/Pastorius/Williams “Trio of Doom,” HBC succeeds by putting musicality above its overwhelming...
12/01/12 Albums
Bop! Bang! Boom!
Grant Geisman
L.A.-based guitarist Grant Geissman made his name with the “contemporary” jazz and commercial work that are so much a part of the Southern California scene. Bop! Bang! Boom! is advertised as his third CD in a trilogy that represents his “shift to more traditional...
10/25/12 Albums
Into the Air
Jeff Coffin and the Mu'tet
Give saxophonist Jeff Coffin credit for truth in advertising, since his Mu’tet band has mutated again. Into the Air , like its 2008 studio predecessor, Mutopia , features keyboardist/flutist Kofi Burbridge and bassist Felix Pastorius, son of Jaco. But Coffin...
09/04/11 Albums
Platinum
The Headhunters
Herbie Hancock learned how to be ahead of his time while working with Miles Davis in the 1960s and 1970s, and proved it by one-upping his mentor in 1973. Hancock had just recorded on Davis’ 1972 release On the Corner, which was heavily influenced by the...
08/01/11 Albums
Parting Shot
Steve Khan
On his new album, Parting Shot , the underrated guitarist Steve Khan continues exploring a Latin sensibility and reunites his ’90s-era Eyewitness quartet of bassist Anthony Jackson, drummer Dennis Chambers and percussionist Manolo Badrena, adding Marc Quinones...
06/17/11 Albums
Duet
Jeff Coffin and Jeff Sipe
Before listening to Duet , it might be best to forget everything you already know about its creators—which may be little about drummer Jeff Sipe (a founding member of the Georgia-based, genre-bending fusion band Aquarium Rescue Unit) and perhaps a bit more...
March 2011 Albums
Live at Voce
Steve Gadd and Friends
With a 40-year career of recordings that includes classics by everyone from George Benson, Chick Corea and Jaco Pastorius to Eric Clapton, Paul Simon and Steely Dan, Steve Gadd has a well-deserved reputation as the ultimate session drummer. Gadd doesn’t...
March 2011 Albums
Dirty & Beautiful: Vol. I
Gary Husband
Most musical multi-taskers play a variety of similar instruments: Branford Marsalis an array of saxophones; Alex Acuña drums and percussion; John Medeski piano and organ. Gary Husband, on the other hand, went from being one of the great drummers with guitarist...
March 2011 Albums
Five & Live
B.D. Lenz
The music of New Jersey-based guitarist B.D. Lenz has been licensed to more than 100 television shows internationally, so listeners are more likely to have heard his music through flatscreen speakers than on his seven studio CDs. But while TV provides artists...
01/25/11 Albums
The Line Up
Jeff Richman & Chatterbox
A solo recording artist since 1986, Los Angeles-based guitarist Jeff Richman is nonetheless best known as L.A.’s top fusion cover artist for a decade’s worth of arrangements and playing on all-star guitar tributes on Mike Varney’s Tone Center label. Perhaps...
11/15/10 Concerts
Bear Creek Music Festival: Partying Like It's 1969
Review of the sprawling funk, jam and jazz fest in Live Oak, Florida on November 10-14, 2010
November 2010 Gearhead
Billy Martin & Stanton Moore: Talking Drums
New instructional resources from Billy Martin and Stanton Moore go far beyond rudiments
03/10/10 Albums
Into the Light
Dana Hall
Chicago-based drummer Dana Hall literally decided on a career in music when he realized it wasn’t rocket science. The Brooklyn-born, Philadelphia-raised musician studied both aerospace engineering and percussion at Iowa State University, and worked for the...
03/10/10 Albums
Impressions of a City
Paul Wertico's Mid-East/Mid-West Alliance
If you remember drummer Paul Wertico from his 1983-2001 tenure in the Pat Metheny Group, then his Mid-East/Mid-West Alliance’s new Impressions of a City will qualify as something completely and noisily different. Wertico complements his regular trio partners...
02/24/10 Movies
Return to Forever Returns: Live at Montreux 2008
Reunion DVD is an overlong paean to fusion's heyday
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ReportAbout Bill Meredith
Native Floridian Bill Meredith started a career as a freelance journalist in 1992, seven years after beginning his career as a drummer, percussionist and vocalist. Aside from occasional sportswriting, his two musical careers have paid the bills ever since. In 2006, he opened for B.B. King with blues band the Hellhounds, a few months after his second interview with Chick Corea. Meredith has also written for Jazziz, City Link and Closer, and his various bands have opened for Ani DiFranco, Johnny Winter and Warren Hill.
Bill Meredith joined the JazzTimes community on Jan 31, 2008