“BROOKLYN CALLING” WORLD TOUR LAUNCH GIG Stan Killian Quartet Performs at NUBLU in NYC’s East Village, Monday Dec 26th Doors open at 8 pm Stan Killian – tenor saxophone; Yukako Yamano – Fender Rhodes; Joe Lepore – bass; Mark Whitfield Jr. drums Click the link for tickets – https://link.dice.fm/V4b77e002d12
StereoGum Review of Brooklyn Calling
I am pleased to share StereoGum‘s great review of Brooklyn Calling, my latest quartet release on Sunnyside Records. “Saxophonist Stan Killian is originally from Texas, and you can hear a little of the Texas blues in his playing, but he’s a longtime New Yorker with a hard-bitten hard bop style perfect for the city’s dark, crowded jazz bars. On this, his third album for Sunnyside, he’s backed by guitarist Paul Bollenbeck and a rhythm section he’s used before, bassist Corcoran Holt and drummer McClenty Hunter. Those two guys, who worked together brilliantly on Hunter’s 2018 album The Groove Hunter, are …
JazzTimes Review
Check out the great review from JazzTimes of “Brooklyn Calling”, my latest quartet album on Sunnyside Records. “Figure guitar-playing newcomer (to this band) Paul Bollenbeck as the most common provocateur to the leader. Over seven tunes swinging as a suite, Bollenbeck first scintillates with enigmatic suction sounds behind Killian’s tenor. Elsewhere he chimes as a mellow bell, cushion for Killian’s rides into the higher (though not altissimo) ranges. Produced by Killian himself, the set plays out, especially through headphones, as the four fellows hiding behind each other, then spinning peeks out from the common column into their artistry. I always …