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WGLT podcast interview with Spike Wilner…
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Publish Date: 06/08/2012 10:46 AM
Run Time: 10:05
Growing up in NYC, Wilner played piano at a young age. His inspiration also came at a young age when he saw a television program on Scott Joplin. Today Wilner is one of the top pianists in NYC, and is co-owner of “Smalls”, one of the top jazz clubs in NYC. Wilner’s new CD on Posi-Tone records is titled “La Tendresse ...Read More
Spike Wilner gets a look on Midwest Record….
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SPIKE WILNER/La Tendresse: First drawn to piano when bitten by the ragtime bug as a teen, piano man Wilner takes his trio on a wild ride through impressionistic to straight ahead jazz, original and cover, putting his own stamp on the whole proceeding. A known quantity to the hard core jazzbo, Wilner is extending his reach here with a feisty but friendly set that isn’t movin ...Read More
theJazzWord on Spike Wilner “La Tendresse”…
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FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 201
Spike Wilner – La Tendresse
2012 Posi-Tone
The opening title track of pianist Spike Wilner’s La Tendressesuggests only hints of affection before the straight-eighth pulse intensifies into a McCoy Tyner-inspired demonstration of intensity, buoyed by drummer Joey Saylor and bassist Dezron Douglas. A schooled musician, comfortable in an expan ...Read More
Dan Bilawsky reviews Spike Wilner “La Tendresse”…
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There are few greater champions of the old and new in jazz than pianist/club owner/musical antiquarian Spike Wilner. His role in resuscitating and running one of the most important night spots for jazz in New York—Smalls Jazz Club—has made him a hero to those who frequent that bastion of musical integrity, but he’s also revered as an ivory tickling keeper-of-the-fl ...Read More
Step Tempest reviews Spike Wilner “La Tendresse”…
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As the great critic Whitney Balliett once posited, jazz is the “sound of surprise” – in the case of “La Tendresse” the new CD from pianist Spike Wilner(Posi-Tone), the sense of surprise comes from Wilner’s approach to the standards that comprise 2/3rds of the program. Aided and abetted by Hartford native Dezron Douglas (bass) and J ...Read More
Mark Corroto on Spike Wilner “La Tendresse”…
www.allaboutjazz.com
Joy.
But having been told that one word reviews aren’t sufficient, how about this: Pianist Spike Wilner’s disc La Tendresse is pure joy.
Wilner can probably best be described as an old soul occupying a modernist corpus. His foundations in ragtime and stride piano inform the music heard here, but likeThelonious Monk, he uses the tradition as the architecture for ...Read More
A nice write-up for Spike Wilner “La Tendresse”…
http://ajazzlistenersthoughts.blogspot.com/
Spike Wilner is one busy man. Somehow, in addition running Smalls Jazz Club, developing multiple bookings covering seven nights a week, playing an early set as a soloist or a later set with one of the many fine groups that pass through the club each week, generating new ideas to bring jazz to the audience including on-line streaming from the club, mai ...Read More
Critical Jazz reviews Spike Wilner “La Tendresse”…
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Cover art that quickly dispels the tired myth of judging a book by it’s cover, Spike Wilner presents an incredibly intimate and somewhat emotionally charged recording that breaks down the classic piano trio in the most organic of forms. There is a special musical happy place this trio works from with one foot stuck in a more traditional past and the other foot moving for ...Read More
All About Jazz review of Spike Wilner’s CD “Three To Go”…
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3 To Go
Spike Wilner | Posi-Tone Records (2009)
By George Kanzler
At a small jazz festival a few years ago the advertised theme was a celebration of Duke Ellington’s music. But some featured acts, including one highly regarded younger pianist, obviously hadn’t taken the theme very seriously, his only begrudging nod to it being a rendition of the jam session standb ...Read More
A Review of Spike Wilner’s Three to Go from AAJ.com
by George Kanzler
At a small jazz festival a few years ago the advertised theme was a celebration of Duke Ellington’s music. But some featured acts, including one highly regarded younger pianist, obviously hadn’t taken the theme very seriously, his only begrudging nod to it being a rendition of the jam session standby, “C-Jam Blues,” hardly a tune representative of Ellingto ...Read More