The hot music topic in Los Angeles last week was the cool jazz of a gaunt, hungry-looking young (25) fellow named Gerry Mulligan, who plays the baritone saxophone. For the past three months, ...
Christmas concerts have been an Aardvark Jazz Orchestra tradition for thirty years, and Bethlehem Counterpoint is the second album of music gleaned from those performances. AJO’s hallmark is the ...
Tenor sax strongman Ivo Perelman underscores the objective for this release, advising that "This combination, with viola and guitar—I've never before used this particular grouping ... I knew it would ...
Rainey plays on Jason Stein's Lucille! as well as on his own quintet's record, Float Upstream. Critic Kevin Whitehead says the albums demonstrate the range and glory of jazz counterpoint. This is ...
Before I attended CounterPoint Music and Arts Festival last weekend, I planned to cover it with a typical news story about the performances. But this is a story of a very personal and enlightening ...
CounterPoint Music Festival will not be going on in 2016, as the cancelation was announced in a post from the festival's official Facebook page on Friday (March 11). The reason was not specified, but… ...