Corner Store Jazz

28/10/2024

slow down
even for just this moment
and loose yourself

from the album Late One Afternoon

14/10/2024

in honor of
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY

from the album 'Way The West Was Won

25/09/2024

"The legendary American drummer Phil Haynes has prepared a standard, mainstream trio . . . [with] the excellent pianist Steve Rudolph and double bassist Drew Gress . . . The Day Dream Trio moves in the subtle style of ballad mainstream jazz, not avoiding creating their own compositions and reaching for the great standards of the jazz canon. Such is certainly the double, live album "Duke & Strays Live" dedicated to outstanding jazz composers: Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn . . . shimmers . . . with a rich set of great, jazz standards played by the perfect Day Dream Trio . . .
The heroes of the evening were not only Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, but three outstanding musicians [Haynes, Gress & Rudolph]."

~ Dionizy Piątkowski, Jazz Era

from the album Duke & Strays Live

20/09/2024

whether or not it is actually a
BANDCAMP FRIDAY
support your favorite artists, explore new ones, and buy direct!
THANKS TO YA'ALL

25 year NYC veteran drummer, composer and bandleader of singular voice and stirring stylistic range, from the innovative avant-garde to romantic ballads, Americana, & adventurous modern jazz classics. philhaynes.com

09/09/2024

"... Which led, by and by, to Corner Store Syndicate festivals at the old Knitting Factory on Houston Street. Haynes’s 4 Horns & What? was the syndicate’s flagship band. They were outsiders, but Haynes’s music placed them right in the thick of it. Ideas were in the air and their antennae were up ... When the pandemic came, Haynes relistened to this music for the first time in ages, and thought, this stands up OK. He’s not wrong."
–Kevin Whitehead

New York’s “downtown scene” was so-called because folks mostly played (way) south of midtown, not because folks lived there. Many did live below 14th Street, but home might be anywhere from western New Jersey to the Bronx to affordable Brooklyn neighborhoods that seemed quaintly remote, at eig...

08/09/2024

A sunny Sunday a year ago
with Steve Rudolph & Drew Gress
still puts a skip in my step

from the album Duke & Strays Live

20/08/2024

Jim Yanda's
EMPATHY GENE
Live Bop Shop
Thx for so much Dan Gross
"the truth is out there"

From the brilliant corners of the collective artistic psyche, Empathy Gene takes us on a sonic journey of discovery that surprises, haunts, and transforms. I...

14/08/2024

Pre-order for
five stirring live tracks now
featuring Drew Gress & Steve Rudolph
"And we love you madly"

10 track album

11/08/2024

HONORED
"Phil Haynes has revisited the thrilling yet underappreciated music of his quintet 4 Horns & What? with a must-hear collection ... a defining force in the New York jazz scene since he arrived from Oregon in 1983. ... This collection is truly revelatory, with each session offering an unbridled and joyous exploration of jazz's history ... spirited and full of humor ... moving from sparse atmospherics to an exuberant free-jazz frenzy ... coalesces from an uncharacteristic stillness, summoning a deeply rooted blues feeling inspired by field hollers and capturing something both mournful and determined ... thrilling and adventurous ... a hard act to follow ... scorching ... inspired and electrifying performances that deserve far more attention ... a pivotal moment in jazz history ... "

~ Alberto Gutiérrez Jazzóologo (Tiempo de Jazz)

05/08/2024

A Grand Review:

"... his most innovative and frequently overlooked ensemble. Conceived in the late 80s to play virtually anywhere without amplification, the unconventional 4 Horns & What? fused classic New Orleans polyphony with blistering free jazz and modern composition.

Haynes is the “what” ... the hairs rose on the back of my neck as as I listened to the haunting melodies of Blues For Israel, Alone, and Ballad For Heike for the first time in over a decade. The ebullient wit of A’lil Iowa Get-Down and Corner Store Strut has lost none of its zing, and the ambitious long-form Atmospheres hugely benefits from Jon Rosenberg’s crisp remastering. The 1992 follow-up [album, 4 Horn Lore] ... I could kick myself for not buying it at the time ...

The thrilling exchanges between Haynes and Tchicai on the 15-minute Eclipse spark ... the rediscovery of these tapes ... a significant find."

~ Fred Grand, Jazz Journal

Reissue for drummer Haynes' 1989-95 free-meets-New-Orleans music featuring Paul Smoker, Ellery Eskelin, John Tchicai and others

05/08/2024

w/Gress & Rudolph
drops 11/8/24
so proud

27/07/2024

!!!JON ROSENBERG!!!
!!HERB ROBERTSON!!
!! WOW WOW WOW !!

from the album Twisted

25/07/2024

as Herb has said
"DON'T WORRY, WE'RE NOT LIKE THE OTHERS"
+ this Jon Rosenberg collaboration is
BEYOND DELIGHTFUL & IMPORTANT, YO
spread the word and enjoy

5 track album

18/07/2024

4 Horns & What(?): The Complete American Recordings
* * * * 1/2
Album of the Year - All Star Break Edition - All About Jazz

". . . always direct, engaging, at times chamber-like . . . vivid, palpable, compelling, touching the free and full of almost orchestral opulence, the soliloquies and an in*******se that is always masterful, very attentive, [and] creatively lively."

Best Jazz Albums of 2024: All-Star Break Edition article by AAJ Staff, published on July 15, 2024 at All About Jazz. Find more Year in Review articles

18/07/2024

"Left of center drummer Phil Haynes puts together an opus . . . from gorgeous yet forward looking solos and harmonies to cataclysmic traffic jams . . . ambitious and adventurous . . .
sometimes deep in the pocket and other times falling down the elevator shaft. It must have been something to see!"
~ George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly

from the album 4 Horns & What? -- The Complete American Recordings

12/07/2024

"In the late 1980s, drummer Phil Haynes put together a two-brass, two-reed quintet that he called 4 Horns & What(?) . . . There is no guitar, piano or bass — nor are they needed. Haynes contributed all the compositions . . . from somber to rambunctious, from desolate passages to ecstatic group interplay, with [trumpeter Paul] Smoker (and [saxophonist John] Tchicai on the live date) particularly excelling. From sound explorations to joyful chaos, Phil Haynes and his sidemen never play it safe."
~ Scott Yanow, Downbeat * * * *

27 track album

08/07/2024

"No obviousness, no banality, nothing that could make one think even in the slightest of something studied at a table (in the sense of mannered, academic) and instead music that is always direct, engaging, at times chamber-like . . . full of almost orchestral opulence, the soliloquies and an in*******se that is always masterful, very attentive, creatively lively . . . in short, makes this integral [and] absolutely unmissable . . . continuous discovery that this authentic sonic monument can offer us. Happy listening . . . Album of the week."
~ Alberto Bazzurro, All About Jazz (Italy)

Phil Haynes: 4 Horns & What? – The Complete American Recordings album review by Alberto Bazzurro, published on July 8, 2024. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

28/06/2024

"A career in music and the arts is not a sprint, it's a marathon. For every prodigy such as Tony Williams, who innovated at age 16 with Miles Davis, it happens much later for many, including John Coltrane, who was in his mid to late 30's before the world came to him on his terms -- but only after he left Miles."

World Poetry Cafe has been heard for 25 years every Thursday on CFRO FM, 100.5, Vancouver. Ariadne Sawyer is the host/producer. Today's Cafe features an extended interview with great musician Phil Haynes. We include two complete cuts! Enjoy!