Andrea Canter
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08/23/11 Albums
Mort Weiss Meets Bill Cunliffe
Mort Weiss
First, the good news: After a 40-year hiatus, clarinetist Mort Weiss returned to performing about a decade ago, and this new release finds him collaborating for the first time with L.A. keyboard giant Bill Cunliffe, with sympathetic support from bassist...
May 2011 Albums
Three Stories
Eldar Djangirov
On Three Stories , his first solo piano release for Sony, Eldar Djangirov offers a stunning triptych of his abilities: ethereal classics (Bach, Scriabin), clever re-imaginations (Gershwin, Cahn, Van Heusen, Chick Corea, Monk, Charlie Parker, Dave Matthews...
May 2011 Albums
Grass Roots Movement
Bobby Selvaggio
For his third recording, alto saxophonist Bobby Selvaggio gathers first-class talent who, like Selvaggio himself, fly somewhat below the radar: keyboardist Frank LoCrasto, electric guitarist Nir Felder, bassist Kip Reed and drummer James Johnson. Selvaggio’s...
06/19/10 Albums
Uplift
Monty Alexander
Although Jamaican pianist Monty Alexander is the quintessential interpreter of Caribbean roots in a jazz context, he is equally in his element with good ol’ American bop and blues in the vein of Nat Cole and Oscar Peterson. On the aptly titled Uplift , Alexander...
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Andrea Canter lives in Minneapolis where she is the Contributing Editor/Photographer for the Jazz Police website and administrator of JazzINK.com. After thirty years as an urban school district psychologist, she “retired” from normal life and began a second career as a writer, reviewer, photographer and jazz advocate. In addition to serving as photographer for the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, she contributed photos to Joined at the Hip: A History of Jazz in the Twin Cities by Jay Goetting and blogs on jazz and related topics..
Andrea Canter joined the JazzTimes community on Jul 22, 2009