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Ernie Krivda and Theron Brown at Free Concerts in Cleveland
by John Chacona
Ernie Krivda and friends Ernie's front porch Lakewood, Ohio July 31, 2022 jny: Cleveland, Ohio is the birthplace of Albert Ayler and the late Abdul Wadud. It's where the Black Unity Trio recorded what was probably the first free jazz record to be independently released. The city's free jazz bona fides are unquestioned, even if that style of music isn't widely played there anymore. But as a blistering July melted into a sweltering ...
read moreErnie Krivda: Requiem For A Jazz Lady
by Bruce Lindsay
It's been over 40 years since tenor saxophonist Ernie Krivda first appeared on record. In a career going back six decades he's released around 30 albums under his own name and appeared on many more. His tenor sound, often plaintive, is distinctive and affecting. On Requiem For A Jazz Lady the tenor is given a quartet setting, an ideal format in which Krivda's instrument can shine. The Jazz Lady of the album title is not, as one might ...
read moreErnie Krivda: Blues for Pekar
by Matt Marshall
On Blues for Pekar, Cleveland saxophonist Ernie Krivda pays tribute, not only to the late writer, critic and jazz aficionado Harvey Pekar, but also to the time and place from which both men hailed. Working with the Detroit Connection rhythm section also featured on the saxophonist's Live at the Dirty Dog (CIMPoL, 2010), Krivda swings mightily through a set of bebop standards and originals that skip, sing and warmly sway to the pulsing beat of the rust belt in its ...
read moreErnie Krivda Quintet: Stellar Sax
by Derek Taylor
In lesser hands the title of this new CIMP release might seem both pompous and presumptuous, but not so when the mantle applies to Ernie Krivda. The Cleveland-based saxophonist has been in the game going on four decades, time enough to sharpen chops on his horn that easily justify the aggrandizing appellation. Narrowing his set of influences isn't as easy as it might seem: I hear slivers of Harold Land and Zoot Sims in his sound, but mostly in terms ...
read moreErnie Krivda & The Fat Tuesday Big Band: Perdido
by Jack Bowers
As spring slowly runs its course and summer's warmth entices us, here's an early front-runner in the competition for Big Band Album of the Year. Ernie Krivda's Cleveland-based Fat Tuesday Band is a monstrous fire-breathing dragon with great charts, excellent soloists and, above all, a charming un-dragonlike personality all its own. There are, of course, a large number of marvelous contemporary ensembles working assiduously (for love, not money) from one end of the country to the other. One thing that ...
read moreErnie Krivda - Live at the Dirty Dog (Cimp, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Saxophonist Ernie Krivda leads a swinging live performance from the Detroit jazz club The Dirty Dog on this well recorded album. Claude Black on piano, Dan Kolton on bass and Renell Gonsalves on drums join Krivda on quite lengthy explorations of four well-known standards and an extemporaneous blues jam that ends the program in a fun and joyful way. Apparently this album was recorded at the end of a long residency, and the empathy these musicians have built is quite ...
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Ernie Krivda Stokes the Flames with "Blues for Pekar"
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Tenorist Ernie Krivda has unassumingly been at it for decades, building up a rather voluminous discography of hard swinging jazz with roots in the hard bop of the mid-late '50s through early sixties. Many of those disks are quite fine; many were made for the Cadence-CIMP label complex Bob Rusch heads. And herewith, a new offering [Blues for Pekar (Capri 74110-2)] (dedicated to jazz writer/critic Harvey Pekar) for his quartet-quintet (tenor, piano, bass, drums and an added trumpet/fluegel on four ...
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Ernie Krivda - Blues for Pekar (Capri, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Harvey Pekar was most well known as a graphic novelist, but he was also a huge jazz fan and occasional critic. He receives a fine tribute on this album, a strong disc rooted in the bebop and hard-bop firmament of jazz, and played with a passion and joy that is infectious. Ernie Krivda plays tenor saxophone, joined by Claude Black on piano, Marion Haydenon bass, Renell Gonsalves on drums and Sean Jones or Dominick Farinacci sitting in on trumpet. Krivda ...
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Ernie Krivda - November Man (Cimp)
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Master of a Small House
Saxophonist Ernie Krivda remains something of a lonely outlier in the CIMP catalog. Where the majority of the label's nearly three hundred releases to date favor freer leanings, Krivda hews closer to older conventions in his improvisational style. Postbop-derived melody and rhythm are regular components of his extemporaneous language and his working quintet wouldn't be out of place on an imprint like Steeplechase or Criss Cross. All this isn't to categorize his music as colorless or quotidian. To the contrary, ...
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From: Requiem For A Jazz LadyBy Ernie Krivda