Shaun Brady
Shaun’s Contributions
03/06/13 Features
Benny Green: Calling Up Spirits
On his first trio album consisting solely of original music, the pianist invokes his heroes
12/28/12 Features
Sunny Kim's Painterly Instincts
A vocalist rediscovers her South Korean heritage with understated strength
12/15/12 Features
The Essential Sunny Murray: A Listener’s Guide
Sunny Sides: 5 must-hear recordings
12/13/12 Features
Best Weston: G. Calvin Weston's Greatest Hits
A sampler of the work of the versatile drummer
12/12/12 Features
G. Calvin Weston and the Known Unknown
Partially inspired by personal tragedy, the drummer reinvigorates his career
11/29/12 Features
Harris Eisenstadt: Rhythm & Range
A drummer/bandleader composes from the bottom up
11/14/12 Albums
Estilhaços Live In Lisbon
Steve Lacy
There’s no shortage of documentation of Steve Lacy’s early 1970s work, but that doesn’t make rediscoveries like this 1972 concert from Lisbon any less welcome. This show finds soprano saxophonist Lacy and his quintet in particularly combustible form. The...
11/05/12 Albums
OC DC
Get the Blessing
The title of U.K. quartet Get the Blessing’s third album, OC DC , explicitly references two of their prime inspirations, Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry. At the same time, it winkingly acknowledges Australia’s greatest hard-rock export. The band’s iridescent...
10/21/12 Features
Wadada Leo Smith: Freedom Writer
The trumpeter-composer on his epic masterwork, 'Ten Freedom Summers'
09/29/12 Albums
Altitude
Joe Morris/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver
Remarkably, despite their heftily prolific discographies and the fact that their list of collaborators comprises a Venn diagram with little non-overlapping space, Altitude marks the first time that Joe Morris, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver have worked...
09/28/12 Albums
301
e.s.t.
While on tour in Australia in January 2007, the Esbjörn Svensson Trio spent two days in Sydney’s Studio 301, jamming in order to workshop new material. Prior to his tragic death in a scuba diving accident a little more than a year later, Svensson had edited...
09/20/12 Albums
Dafnis Prieto Proverb Trio
Dafnis Prieto Proverb Trio
Composition is a challenging and elusive craft at the best of times, so it’s undeniably impressive that the Proverb Trio can practice it spontaneously with such cohesion and invention. The trio, led by Dafnis Prieto, collectively improvises songs based around...
09/19/12 Features
Neneh Cherry's Freedom Thing
The adventurous vocalist finds common ground with a free-jazz trio
09/13/12 Albums
Saltash Bells
John Surman
Multireedist John Surman’s first solo effort in nearly two decades is a deeply autobiographical affair, consciously evoking his youth in the English West Country. The title, Saltash Bells, references the chimes of a church in Cornwall that Surman recalls...
08/27/12 Albums
Brooklyn DNA
Joe McPhee/Ingebrigt Haker Flaten
Multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee and Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten have been collaborating for the better part of a decade, chiefly through McPhee’s work with Flaten’s agro-jazz trio The Thing. Their second duo release is a far more restrained...
08/16/12 Overdue Ovation
Michael Musillami: The Power of Three
With 'Mettle,' the guitarist-composer presents a 'journal' with trio
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