Cary Kilner
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Cary Kilner's Picks: Volume 35
Christian McBride & The Airmen of Note – Broadway I’ve heard this wonderful performance several times on MC Jazz but didn’t realize it had an accompanying video, so here you go. McBride is truly Ray Brown’s modern successor, although he also participates in more austere jazz contexts. When I just found this on FB it attributes this tour de force arrangement to Christian himself. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul0I3pxEqgk&list=RDAMVMUl0I3pxEqgk Blue Mitchell – I’ll Close My Eyes & I Should Care Here is some classic late mainstream bebop and a favorite of mine since I was a kid. Blue has such a bouyant happy sound, as does the classic rhythm section of Louis Hayes and Sam Jones, but especially Wynton Kelly. I just found the other link to support such claims. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=NlVPDaYu5EQ&list=RDAMVMNlVPDaYu5EQ https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wIjYDtk3dF8&list=RDAMVMwIjYDtk3dF8 Cary Kilner – My Funny Valentine A dear friend of mine was visiting and reading while I was practicing. She looked up and asked me to play something as a performance, so I asked for a favorite tune of hers. As you can hear I got into it and plied a variety of solo piano styles, surprising me when she sent it to me recently as I had totally forgotten about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpLtFdwKua4 Steve Khan – Bird Food I had forgotten how important Steve Khan has been to the modern jazz guitar crossover into fusion guitar. He plays some amazing orchestral effects here that you will really enjoy and a truly unique approach to this amazing link with a great groove. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WC2ViPrBlY Rob McConnell Tentet – Indian Summer We explored this wonderful tune in a past column. Let’s add this performance that sounds like a whole big-band. A great tenor performance, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzX5szFQzOQ Emmet Cohen trio – Billy Boy This is the opening tune on Emmet’s weekly podcast. I normally don’t like really fast performances, but this is so well-controlled and tasty that I find it worthy of sharing. And his rhythm section just kills! I get exhausted just watching it -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vp_7J6rzX4 Chester Thompson Trio – Elation This is an absolutely beautiful samba. Do not confuse this drummer, Chester Thompson, with the well-known organist by the same name as I had done. It turns out he played with Frank Zappa as well as Genesis, thus you can hear his versatility. The pianist is Joe Davidian whom I did not know. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9WHuKl09L1s&list=RDAMVM9WHuKl09L1s Joe Davidian Trio – How My Heart Sings & Secret Love So here he is, and a beautiful player with another piano trio representative of my taste. I note that the drummer, Austin MacMahon, has played occasionally at the Press Room. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBMDlFubbk&list=PLrPGTKpQUXt1qB6z7u6b-fXIMM4yoevfN https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=25INWq0jQDU&list=PLrPGTKpQUXt1qB6z7u6b-fXIMM4yoevfN The L.A. Chillharmonic – Boogie on Reggae Woman It’s time to end on some stone-cold funk with a great Stevie Wonder tune (aren’t all his tunes great)? Ya gotta enjoy this – loud, of course, and through a clean system. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=zjoeNTvZ5xg&list=RDAMVMzjoeNTvZ5xg |
