NYTC New York - Tokyo Connection

NYTC New York - Tokyo Connection: Precious Live at the B-flat

by Nicholas F. Mondello
November 7, 2014

It might be awkward and “punful" wordplay, but pianist and longtime Tokyo, Japan resident, Jonathan Katz--a scion of legendary Long Island music educator, Bill Katz--is and certainly will be by nature of this terrific recording--recognized as a very rising son. Fronting a swinging and well-communicating rhythm section and adding the superb talents of saxophonist Dave Pietro, Katz and his jammer kids make their own statements (while being admirably reminiscent of the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet) and blaze ...