John Escreet – Consequences So the newest CD I’ve been listening to is John Escreet’s Consequences. It’s an eccentric, nearly indescribable, hour of music. The music is precise; each note is deliberate, every arrangement pointed, all instruments focused. The … consequence of this precision? Hmmm …. Escreet has been a student of music from a young age. At age four, he began piano ...Read More

John Escreet – Consequences (Posi-Tone, 2008) Pianist and composer Escreet takes on some potent challenges with a very talented band. He is accompanied by David Binney on alto saxophone, Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet, Matt Brewer on bass and Tyshawn Sorey on drums. The album opens with a very ambitious and lengthy three part suite featuring some stout and powerful trumpet playing and a ver ...Read More

www.jazz.comBy Walter Kolosky The Suite of Consequence (Movement II) Musicians: John Escreet (keyboards), Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), David Binney (sax), Matt Brewer (bass), Tyshawn Sorey (drums) . Composed by John Escreet . Recorded: Brooklyn, NY, June 2008 Albumcoverjohnescreet-consequences Rating: 86/100 (learn more) A foreboding introduction ushers in “The Suite of Consequence (Movemen ...Read More

www.jazz.com By Mark Seleski Musicians: John Escreet (piano, Fender Rhodes), Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), David Binney (alto sax, electronics), Matt Brewer (bass), Tyshawn Sorey (drums) . Composed by John Escreet . Recorded: Brooklyn, NY, June 2008 Albumcoverjohnescreet-consequences Rating: 91/100 (learn more) After a particularly weird dream, have you ever noticed how the chemicals your brain pa ...Read More

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=31058 Consequences John Escreet | Posi-Tone Records (2008) By Mark F. Turner Since moving to New York in 2006 the exciting London pianist/composer John Escreet has assembled a sensational group of likeminded leaders/thinkers—first call saxophonist David Binney, and equally dynamic younger stars, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, bassist Matt Brewer, and ...Read More

by J Hunter Bebop is almost seen now as the default form of jazz. Back in the day though, most jazz musicians still swung and swayed like Sammy Kaye, so the “new sound Dizzy Gillespie and his cohorts invented was as jarring as anything coming out of today’s New York jazz underground. With Lockout, pianist Ehud Asherie takes that uptown sound and runs with it, spurred on by a monster q ...Read More

by Phil DiPetro Sean Nowell is a virtual unknown who became known to me virtually through the socio-musical phenomenon known as MySpace. Nowell and his quintet have succeeded at melding, morphing and mixing the best of Blue Note-era small-group nirvana with the Headhunters’ pocket and vibe, evolving it to right now. This is not merely attributable to great writing and playing, but innovati ...Read More