For over 20 years, pianist Andy Milne has played at the forefront of the creative improvised music scene in New York. Milne lends his distinctive, vibrant sound to larger groups like Dapp Theory (whose Seasons of Being won a Juno in his native Canada), on soundtracks like The Captains (forContinue Reading
I had a wonderful Jazz Night Out when Richard Sanford and I saw Dave Douglas’ Dada People at the Wexner Center on Tuesday the 11th. With a world-class lineup of pianist Frank Woeste, bassist Yasushi Nakamura and drummer Clarence Penn, trumpeter Douglas led a set of his and Woeste’s tunesContinue Reading
Dave Douglas, trumpeter and frequent guest of the Wexner Center, returns to Columbus next Tuesday at 8pm with his invigorating collaboration with Parisian pianist Frank Woeste, Dada People, as one of a handful of US dates co-sponsored by the French-American Jazz Exchange (tickets available here). I was lucky enough to speakContinue Reading
Of the 20+ sets I gorged myself on at this year’s Winter Jazz Fest in NYC, none impressed me more than French-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf’s quintet at the New School. Columbus is lucky enough to see this group kick off another star-studded jazz season at the best-sounding room in town, theContinue Reading