Home » Jazz Musicians » Sketches
Sketches
Volume One is SKETCHES' first release after working on this concept for over a year – writing, rehearsing, and performing in New York's Small's Jazz Club and Douglass Street Music Collective – until a cohesive set of material was ready to record. It was released on November 5th, 2013.
Volume Two, to be released October 14th, 2014 on BJURecords, will include 10 brand new compositions (2 from each member) plus a bonus track. More details to be announced soon!
Members of the project are leaders of their own bands and all in-demand sideman as well, having performed and/or recorded with Lee Konitz, Fred Hersch, Darcy James Argue, Joe Lovano, Steve Lacy, George Garzone, Aaron Goldberg, Aaron Parks, & Esperanza Spalding, among many others. They have also garnered multiple accolades from the Young Jazz Composer Awards, the BMI Foundation’s Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize/Manny Albam Commission, as well as both national and international performance competitions.
Tags
Sketches: Volume 2
by Dan Bilawsky
Same musicians, same winning concept, great new songs: that's what awaits on the second volume of music from the quintet collective known as Sketches. This Brooklyn-based outfit works a unique angle with its own brand of cross-pollinated composition, whereby one musician brings in a tidbit of music that serves as the seed for a piece from the pen of another band member. It's a form of collaborative writing that allows both parties to work alone together.
read moreSketches: Volume One
by Dan Bilawsky
Compositional specificity can be a blessing and a curse. It's easy to understand how having every last instruction set to paper can be helpful when it comes to starting the music making process, but the flip side of that argument is that there's nothing left to actually create if everything is already there in black and white on the page. Jazz, as a form of creative music, has always wrestled to find a balance between structure and ...
read moreSketches: Volume One
by Glenn Astarita
This Brooklyn-based jazz quintet comprised of nascent talent takes a unique approach to composition. Here, the musicians share a sketch from a notepad, denoting an incomplete composition or musical fragment and another band-member runs with it to use as a foundation for a new composition. Nonetheless, it's a balanced program, where the musicians fuse probing melodic content via regimented flows and loose grooves, while occasionally skirting the outside realm. Essentially, these pieces are structured by design, yet the band doesn't ...
read moreJan Hammer Will Release Sketches In Jazz On March 27
Source:
GoMedia PR
While he may be best known for his Grammy-award-winning music for Miami Vice, Jan Hammer’s roots have always been planted firmly in jazz. He was 14 when he formed his first jazz trio in Czechoslovakia, after which he came to the United States to study jazz at the Berklee College of Music. He spent a year as keyboardist/conductor for the inimitable Sarah Vaughan before joining forces in 1971 with John McLaughlin, Jerry Goodman, Rick Laird, and Billy Cobham in the ...
read more
Joe Barna Announces Sketches of Influence Live Recording at Middle C Jazz
Source:
Mark Sullivan
Drummer/composer/bandleader Joe Barna is bringing his band Sketches of Influence to Middle C Jazz (a recently opened jazz club in jny: Charlotte, NC) to record a live album on March 13-14, 2020. This is certainly the first live recording to be produced at the club, and may be the first time that an artist from outside the Charlotte area has chosen to make a live recording there. Asked what he would like the Charlotte audience to know about his career ...
read more
BJURecords Releases New Recordings From: Nathan Parker Smith Large Ensemble, Sketches & Owen Howard!
Source:
Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
CD Release Celebrations! Sketches: Saturday, October 25 @ An Die Musik, Baltimore, MD Tuesday, November 4 @ Korzo (Konceptions), Brooklyn, NY Wednesday, November 19 @ The Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC Owen Howard: November 7 @ The Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records, which was launched in January of 2008, and now boasts a catalog of more than forty-five recordings, proudly releases the newest wave of recordings on the label; Not Dark Yet, the debut ...
read more
Musings on Latin Jazz: 4 Questions About Sketches of Spain from Miles Davis
Source:
The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
Musings On Latin Jazz will look at the genre in more of an open and conversational method. Instead of presenting researched facts and well formed thoughts, Musings On Latin Jazz will consider the style in a more free flowing fashion. I'll put together a few questions and off the top of my head, put together some answers. This is meant to spark conversation, so join in the discussionleave a comment below and let us know what you think about the ...
read more
Brilliant Sketches: Marcus Miller
Source:
Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
The brilliant Miles Davis recording Sketches of Spain turned 50 in 2009 and on behalf of Legacy Recordings, who reissued a special collector's edition CD that same year, I produced a podcast series celebrating this masterpiece. For this series it was important to find artists who could speak with authority, not only about the impact of Miles' playing at that time but also about Gil Evans, the recording itself and the album's huge influence on the music. Our cast of ...
read more
Brilliant Sketches: Herb Alpert
Source:
Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
The brilliant Miles Davis recording Sketches of Spain turned 50 in 2009 and on behalf of Legacy Recordings, who reissued a special collector's edition CD that same year, I produced a podcast series celebrating this masterpiece. For this series it was important to find artists who could speak with authority, not only about the impact of Miles' playing at that time but also about Gil Evans, the recording itself and the album's huge influence on the music. Our cast of ...
read more
Brilliant Sketches: Nicholas Payton
Source:
Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
The brilliant Miles Davis recording Sketches of Spain turned 50 in 2009 and on behalf of Legacy Recordings, who reissued a special collector's edition CD that same year, I produced a podcast series celebrating this masterpiece. For this series it was important to find artists who could speak with authority, not only about the impact of Miles' playing at that time but also about Gil Evans, the recording itself and the album's huge influence on the music. Our cast of ...
read more
Amina Figarova - Sketches (2010)
Source:
Something Else!
By Pico It used to be, all good jazz originated out of New Orleans, then Chicago, then New York. And a lot of it still does these days. Eventually, Western Europe became the place of origin for a lot of great jazz for several generations, now, and even Eastern Europe is the home of some mighty good jazz performers, a few of whom have been profiled here. But nowadays, you can find good jazz from the Caucasus region where Europe ...
read more
Sketches from Spain
Source:
The Ring Modulator by Adrian Stevenson
Interview with Mike Walker in Andalucia, Spain. 22nd June 2010The new Manchester Jazz Festival website includes a fifteen minute interview with Mike Walker that I managed to get while I was on Mike's advanced Jazz Guitar Master Class Retreat in Andalucia, Spain recently. I thought I'd include it here as well.Mike talks about how the Simcock Walker Swallow Nussbaum tour came about, and how he went about writing material for this group of musicians, as well ...
read more
1959--Jazz's Greatest Year - Columbia/Legacy Celebrates 50th Anniversary of "Time Out, "Sketches of Spain," and "Mingus Ah Um"
Source:
All About Jazz
Genre-defining albums by Columbia artists Miles Davis (Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain), Dave Brubeck (Time Out) and Charles Mingus (Mingus Ah Um) all celebrate their 50th anniversaries in 2009, alongside John Coltrane's Giant Steps and Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz To Come
Following the release of Kind of Blue: Legacy Edition in January, Columbia/Legacy announces three more multi-disc 1959 commemorative sets:
Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (Double-CD + DVD) Sketches of Spain ...
read more
“...an album that touches on many aspects of the jazz vernacular, yet it's a comprehensive agenda that is impressively concocted with the ensemble's hallmark sound and unassuming complexities.” –Glenn Astartia, All About Jazz
"...But more important than their long lists of credits is that these five musicians all have compatible styles and listen closely to each other, two qualities that give Sketches its own group sound… With consistently fine solos (pianist Cherner is particularly inventive) and worthy themes, Volume One is an excellent start for Sketches.” –Scott Yanow, Jazz Inside Magazine