Perry Tannenbaum

Perry’s Contributions

05/21/12 Concerts

Review: The Savannah Music Festival, March 22-April 7

An all-star galaxy at a festival within a festival

04/21/12 Albums

Mischief & Mayhem
Jenny Scheinman

Jenny Scheinman always makes her next move a guessing game. The mercurial fiddler telegraphed this one when her Mischief & Mayhem quartet played the Village Vanguard in July 2010, adjourning to a Brooklyn recording studio with guitarist Nels Cline, bassist...

11/13/11 Albums

Shut Up and Dance
Orchestre National de Jazz

With frequently changing personnel and leadership, ONJ has been remarkably chameleonic during its 25 years, sometimes, as when Paolo Damiani was at the helm for Charmediterranéen in 2003, veering from idiom to idiom as we moved from track to track. The French...

08/01/11 Concerts

Spoleto Festival, South Carolina, 2011

A fine and mellow jazz lineup running the gamut from Dianne Reeves to Trombone Shorty

05/03/11 Concerts

Savannah Music Festival: An All-Star Galaxy

Perry Tannenbaum reviews select jazz performances during music festival in Savannah, Georgia, held on March 24-April 9, 2011

May 2011 Albums

Organic
Ehud Asherie

After three releases on Posi-Tone leading small combos from the piano, 31-year-old Israeli native Ehud Asherie switches over to Hammond organ for his latest quartet outing, Organic. Fats Waller and Count Basie come readily to mind as jazz immortals who doubled...

May 2011 Albums

Welcome to New York
Ehud Asherie

On Welcome to New York, his first-ever solo-piano collection, Asherie’s mastery of various masters’ styles, from Waller and Tatum and Dave McKenna on down, puts him in the elite group of heritage pianists who rode in on the wave of Wynton Marsalis traditionalism...

May 2011 Albums

Smiles
Terry Myers

With his smooth, mellow-toned lucidity, tenor saxophonist Terry Myers evokes memories of swing-era stalwarts Bud Freeman and Budd Johnson. But when he lathers up—or pulls out his soprano sax—the thrust and grit of Zoot Sims come to mind. The fun begins as...

03/22/11 Concerts

Charles Lloyd New Quartet: Live at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Review of performance on January 29, 2011 at Rose Hall

October 2010 Albums

Incorrigible
One For All

If the titles of this sextet’s recent discs for Sharp Nine, The Lineup and Return of the Lineup , suggested that the group was in a creative rut, fans can rest assured that this first effort on their new label isn’t a desperate flailing around for fresh...

06/25/10 Concerts

Jazz at Spoleto Festival USA

Perry Tannenbaum reviews jazz segment of Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina

04/19/10 Concerts

Savannah Music Festival

Perry Tannenbaum reviews performances by Clayton Brothers, Bill Frisell Trio, Ken Peplowski, Ben Tucker and Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Bas at festival in Savannah, Ga.

April 2010 Albums

Saudações
Egberto Gismonti

Fans of Egberto Gismonti probably expected him to play throughout his new two-CD set, but as with Meeting Point , Gismonti’s 1997 ECM outing featuring the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, classical convention trumps jazz tradition. Gismonti is merely...