Michael Tucker is an Editorial Director for Jazz Journal and video.tm. With a passion for jazz music, Michael's articles cover a wide range of topics including artist interviews, album reviews, and live performances. He has a keen eye for discovering emerging talent and showcasing established musicians in the jazz community.
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Trumpeter Wheeler plays sombre, downtempo chamber music with Lee Konitz, Dave Holland and Bill Frisell in 1996
Yearning tenor saxophonist leads a set of mostly modal originals enlivened by the harmonic superimpositions of pianist Nitai Hershkovits
The Italian pianist leads tenor, bass and drums in loosely framed music expressing tenderness, reverie and yearning
The British singer, well-known for her delicate wordless vocals, teams up with pianist Downes for a lyric-rich set of covers and originals
German reedman lays aside his saxophone to pursue big-band writing reflecting his fascination with through-composition
Mosaic afford their usual rigorous and comprehensive treatment to the vibist's work, across seven CDs with extensive notes and photography
By: Michael Tucker
Almost a quarter of a century ago – it seems like only yesterday – I enjoyed a conversation with Joe Zawinul after a Syndicate gig of his at the Bergen Jazz Festival. We got onto the subject of contemporary saxophonists. It wasn't long before Joe advised me “ You know, Mike, Wayne always spoiled me for all the others!”
Each time I drop into Chichester Jazz Club, I don't know what impresses me the most: the range and overall quality of the performing musicians or the size of the attentive (and healthily diverse) audience, who habitually accord the music the most respectful and enthusiastic attention.
John Beasley, Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Returning To Forever (Candid CAN 33352) Following my review last month of the Del Sasso Big Band’s revisioning of Chick Corea’s 1981 Three Quartets, here is another high-octane take on the pianist’s multi-dimensional world. This time the music includes material I associate with the moment when Corea turned the […]
The quartet gig which John Surman had at Ronnie Scott’s this past June (reviewed 12/06) was memorable enough in itself. What made the evening extra special was the fact that long-time ECM aficionados Adrian and Jane Goldsmith were in the audience. We had never met up before but when we did, just after the gig […]
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