Leader: Patrick Breiner Years Active: 2014-present Personnel: Patrick Breiner: tenor saxophone Adam Hopkins: bass Will McEvoy: bass Flin van Hemmen: drums Albums: Mileage (Sulde) Live Performances: Date Venue Media 2014 Nov 22 Silent Barn Sep 30 Korzo Apr 24 Launch Pad Apr 1 Korzo
Leader: Sean Ali Years Active: 2012-present Albums: Live Performances: Date Venue Media 2014 Jun 3 Panoply Performance Laboratory Apr 5 Bed-Stuy House Concert Series 2013 Nov 11 JACK 2012 Sep 30 Downtown Music Gallery Jun 3 ABC No Rio
Leader: collaborative Years Active: 2011-present Personnel: Brad Henkel (trumpet) Sean Ali (bass) David Grollman (snare drum) Albums: Moist Areas (Eh? Records, 2012) Live Performances: Date Venue Media 2014 Feb 25 JACK Feb 20 Ibeam 2013 Aug 27 Spectrum Mar 10 The Stone Feb 21 Lark Café
This was an amazing year with a number of innovative and revolutionary releases that made it very difficult to choose. I spent many days narrowing the best records of 2014 down to fifteen: Josh Sinton’s Ideal Bread – Beating the Teens (Cuneiform) Travis Laplante’s Battle Trance – Palace of Wind (NNA Tapes) Rodrigo Amado Motion
Fresh off a cracking European tour, drummer and composer Harris Eisenstadt‘s Canada Day will unveil its latest music at Greenwich House Music School this coming Thursday, December 11, at 8 pm. The performance is also a lead-up to a January recording session for the band’s fourth record. In an age in which few bands record
Silke Eberhard Trio – What a Beauty Being (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011) William Parker’s In Order to Survive – The Peach Orchard (AUM Fidelity, 1998) VAX – Count to VAX (self-released, 2014) Matt Nelson – Lower Bottoms (Tubapede, 2014) Jesse Stacken – Helleborus (Fresh Sound, 2014) Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um (Columbia, 1959)
Reviews Variable Bets (2014) by Tomas Fujiwara Trio Sediment (2014) by Carlo Costa Quartet Interviews Fay Victor Videos Evan Parker, Peter Evans, and Charles Evans Live at the Stone John Welsh Solo Live at the Manhattan Inn Fay Victor and Brandon Seabrook Live at New Revolution Arts While We Still Have Bodies Live at New
Band: While We Still Have Bodies (Michael Foster, Ben Gerstein, Sean Ali, Flin van Hemmen) Videographer: Don Mount
Band: Fay Victor, Brandon Seabrook Videographer: Don Mount
Band: John Welsh Videographer: Don Mount
