Tim Lefebvre Articles
Rudder announces European tour
Rudder, featuring Tim Lefebvre on bass, Chris Cheek on saxes, Henry Hey on keys and Keith Carlock on drums, is hitting the road in March for a tour across Europe.
The tour is in support of their latest release, Matorning (read our review).
Dates:
Mar 1: Porgy & Bess in Vienna
Mar 3: Charlie Wrights in London
Mar [...]
What’s Spinning for… John Goldsby
I am doing a Mingus project in May with the WDR Big Band, so I have been checking out Mingus’s music recently. He has left such a legacy on several levels: his bass playing, his rhythm section playing, his band leading and his composing. All of those aspects of Mingus’s music are interconnected, and [...]
A review of Wayne Krantz – Krantz Carlock Lefebvre 2009
Krantz Carlock Lefebvre is the first studio document of a trio that has been performing together since 1997, although Wayne Krantz regularly releases live recordings from his website. It’s also Krantz’s first studio album under his own name for fifteen years.
Krantz is a phenomenal guitarist, and this is a record that guitarists will reference [...]
A Review of Rudder’s “Matorning”
Matorning should carry a warning sticker, something like “Listening to this record while in public may make you look like a complete lunatic”. The grooves are that infectious.
This is a jazz record in the widest and best sense, and it features an improvisational groove music that swings like crazy. But it features few solos [...]
