Joseph Hooper

Articles by Joseph Hooper

Jazzers Solal, Gustavsen Shine In Age of Really Good Pianists

by Joseph Hooper
Jun. 29th, 2003, 8:00 pm
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Like a lot of jazz fans, I suspect, I was first drawn to the sound of the saxophone like that RCA do  read more »

New Orleans' 'Hot Men' Keep Jazz Cooking Forward

by Joseph Hooper
May. 4th, 2003, 8:00 pm
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As the music critic Francis Davis writes in his Like Young: Jazz, Pop, Youth, and Middle Age , today  read more »

Just Remember These: Most Desirable Discs of 2002

by Joseph Hooper
Dec. 22nd, 2002, 8:00 pm
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The boy bands, the Britney clones and even the original navel-barer-all started their slow parade to  read more »

Monk, Eisenberg and Banhart: Oh Me, Oh My, They're So Unusual

by Joseph Hooper
Dec. 1st, 2002, 8:00 pm
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It was Meredith Monk as much as anyone who taught New Yorkers that it's possible to open the mouth a  read more »

Youssou! That's My Baobab! Super Sounds from Senegal

by Joseph Hooper
Oct. 27th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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"World music," a term for music made by everybody who doesn't happen to look or sound like us, is a  read more »

All Rise: Cocksure Marsalis Redeems Himself as Pasticheur

by Joseph Hooper
Oct. 13th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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Consider the odd case of Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Pulitzer Priz  read more »

Playing It Straight With Bill Charlap

by Joseph Hooper
Jun. 16th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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Ella Fitzgerald's cut of "Fascinating Rhythm" was blasting through the hallways when 35-year-old jaz  read more »

Kronos' Caravan Travels Well

by Joseph Hooper
Apr. 23rd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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As the black-box density and sheer quality of their 1998 25 Years (Nonesuch) retrospective makes cle  read more »

John Scofield: Grown-up Jazz Guitar

by Joseph Hooper
Apr. 2nd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Listening to John Scofield's 1998 collaboration with Medeski Martin & Wood, A Go Go (Verve), you mig  read more »

Sonic Youth, Stereolab Fall Short … Lovano 52nd St. by Way of Cleveland

by D. Strauss and Joseph Hooper
Apr. 2nd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Sonic Youth, Stereolab Fall ShortSick of wading through 70-minute compact discs with only 40 minutes  read more »

Peruvian Singer Dances in Shadows

by Joseph Hooper
Mar. 19th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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The title of Peruvian singer Susana Baca's excellent new album, Eco de Sombras ( Echo of Shadows ),  read more »

Piazzolla Done Right

by Joseph Hooper
Mar. 5th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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If there is such a thing as a soul that survives physical death, then Astor Piazzolla, Argentine com  read more »

A French Guitarist's Hard-Nosed Sound

by Joseph Hooper
Feb. 20th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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French electric guitarist Marc Ducret's most recent release L'ombra di Verdi, is a hard-nosed callin  read more »

Too-Tame Gatsby Disappoints

by Charles Michener and Joseph Hooper
Jan. 9th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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The Great Gatsby is the great American modern novel-the book that expressed more vividly than any ot  read more »

Brecker's Back

by Joseph Hooper
Dec. 26th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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If tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker were cast in a jazz version of The Wizard of Oz ( The Jizz , le  read more »

Paul Motian Sans Piano

by Joseph Hooper
Dec. 19th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Drummer Paul Motian has worked himself into some of the most important piano jazz of the past three  read more »

Brilliant Has-Beens Discovered At Buena Vista Social Club

by Joseph Hooper
Oct. 24th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Three years ago, American guitarist and record producer Ry Cooder went to Havana at the behest of th  read more »

New World, Old World: Paolo Conte Does New York

by Joseph Hooper
Oct. 10th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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The whole notion of world music is more than a little off.Anglo-American music styles get specific n  read more »

That Farm Kid Can Play: Matt Wilson's Vanilla Fury

by Joseph Hooper
Aug. 29th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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In the mid-40's, when the young autodidacts of bebop swept away the Swing Era dance band leaders, a  read more »

Return of the Big Band Goddess: Diana Krall's Vanilla Pleasures

by Joseph Hooper
Aug. 1st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Diana Krall, 33, spent a childhood in small-town British Columbia buried in her father's jazz record  read more »

Horace Tapscott, Randy Westin: Cures for the Festival Blues

by Joseph Hooper
Jul. 18th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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With the JVC Jazz Festival and the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival wrapped up, it seems fair to conclude  read more »

Jason Moran's Soundtrack: Tech Stocks, Bartok and Monk

by Joseph Hooper
Jun. 13th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Pianist Jason Moran suggested we meet for coffee at the Angelika movie theater's cafe.  read more »

Harmonic Convergence? Ginger Baker's Crazy Story

by Joseph Hooper
Jun. 6th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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It was an article of faith in my preadolescence that Ginger Baker, drummer, junkie and founder of th  read more »

The Boy From Brazil: Tom Zé's Po-Mo Samba

by Joseph Hooper
May. 16th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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On stage, Duke Ellington used to introduce "The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse" by quoting the Marshall McLuh  read more »

Take the A Train Downtown for Ellington Centennial

by Joseph Hooper
May. 2nd, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Thursday, April 29, marks Duke Ellington's 100th birthday, and it's not exactly going to be a surpri  read more »

Jazz Divas Wilson and Horn Pay Their Respects to Miles

by Joseph Hooper
Mar. 28th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Over the past decade, the passing of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae and Betty Carter h  read more »

L.A. Bop Man Teddy Edwards Is Still Choppin' Heads

by Joseph Hooper
Mar. 14th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Talking to Teddy Edwards on the phone is like tapping into a late-night "quiet storm" radio station.  read more »

Into the Jungle With Trumpeter Tim Hagans

by Joseph Hooper
Mar. 7th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Time was, being a serious jazz fan meant you didn't have to worry about the music being made by peop  read more »

The Trouble With Leon: Drum Rebel Loses Control

by Joseph Hooper
Jan. 31st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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In the early 90's, the jazz world was snapping out of its fixation on the Young Lions, with their in  read more »

Po-Mo to the Rescue? Fans Just Love That 'Fake Jazz'

by Joseph Hooper
Aug. 16th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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For the past 15 years, the major jazz labels have been relying on the middle-of-the-road tastes of a  read more »

Marsalis Père et Fils Bring It All Back Home

by Joseph Hooper
Jun. 21st, 1998, 8:00 pm
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"I was playing this groove on the drums one day, so Dad walks in and says, 'Yeah man, I like that.'  read more »

Miles Smiles Again on Stellar Late-60's Box Set

by Joseph Hooper
May. 31st, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Attention, readers: Miles Davis now has his own Web site.  read more »

Three Tenors (No, Not Those) Walking in Coltrane's Giant Steps

by Joseph Hooper
May. 3rd, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Emboldened by the commercial success of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and pianist Marcus Roberts in the  read more »

Marian McPartland Swings Into Her 80's With Style

by Joseph Hooper
Mar. 27th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Let's face it, for the modern jazz fan under 50, the name Marian McPartland is not going to bring ba  read more »

Deep Listening: Tom Harrell Takes a Latin Holiday

by Joseph Hooper
Mar. 8th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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As one of the top trumpeters in jazz for the past two decades and one of the music's most prolific a  read more »

Next Year in Havana: Latin Jazz for Dummies

by Joseph Hooper
Feb. 22nd, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Duke Ellington liked to introduce his 1970 extended work, Afro-Euroasian Eclipse , by saying, "The w  read more »

Mingus Lives! New Adventures In Big-Band Chaos Theory

by Joseph Hooper
Jan. 25th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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One of the great New York marriages of character and setting has to be the Mingus Big Band's regular  read more »

Pomo Clarinetist Don Byron Unleashes Existential Dred

by Joseph Hooper
Nov. 30th, 1997, 8:00 pm
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Clarinetist Don Byron is the bizarro-world version of Wynton Marsalis.  read more »