Articles by Jack Gold-Molina
The Cookers at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
by Jack Gold-Molina
The Cookers Dimitriou's Jazz Alley Seattle, Washington February 21, 2024 Veteran players The Cookers brought their long-established brand of avant bop jazz to Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in jny: Seattle. The personnel included David Weiss and Eddie Henderson on trumpets, alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, Craig Handy on tenor saxophone and a rhythm section of pianist George Cables, Cecil McBee on bass and drummer Billy Hart. The set started out with the straight ahead tune ...
read moreMagiCircle featuring Paoli Mejias at North City Bistro and Wine Bar
by Jack Gold-Molina
MagiCircle featuring Paoli Mejias North City Bistro and Wine Bar Shoreline, Washington October 20, 2023 MagiCircle featuring Santana conga player Paoli Mejias performed two sets of Brazilian-and Caribbean-influenced jazz to an intimate crowd at North City Bistro and Wine Bar located just northeast of jny: Seattle. Drummer and leader Jeff Busch introduced the band and then the music started with Mejias and bongo player Samuel Alamillo trading solos. Vocalist Adriana Giordano engaged the ...
read moreAl Di Meola at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
by Jack Gold-Molina
Al Di Meola Acoustic Trio Dimitriou's Jazz Alley Seattle, WA June 15, 2023 On Thursday June 15th Al Di Meola brought an acoustic trio to Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Seattle to perform a set of flamenco influenced jazz. The musicians in his group included Di Meola playing guitar, Italian flamenco guitarist Peo Alfonsi, and percussionist Sergio Martínez. The set consisted of acoustic music that Di Meola has performed throughout his career as ...
read morePoncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
by Jack Gold-Molina
Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band Dimitriou's Jazz Alley Seattle, WA August 12, 2022 Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band performed two sets at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley on Friday, August 12th. Still touring to support 2019's Trane's Delight, they have faced numerous cancellations and delays due to COVID restrictions. As Mr. Sanchez pointed out, between the time that the album was released and he was finally able to schedule dates to support it, it had ...
read moreDon Falcone: Daevid Allen’s Weird Quartet and Weird Biscuit Teatime
by Jack Gold-Molina
Don Falcone is a multi-instrumentalist and music producer who has been working with known psychedelic and space rock musicians since the 1990s with his band Spirits Burning as well as other projects. The late Daevid Allen, founder of Soft Machine and Gong, appeared on Spirits Burning's first album, 1999's New Worlds By Design, performing on much of the recording playing lead, rhythm and glissando guitars and singing. Falcone and Allen, with Michael Clare, later formed Weird Biscuit Teatime, releasing DJDDAY ...
read moreDeviant Amps: Strange Voodoo from Electric Salad Studio: Volume 1
by Jack Gold-Molina
Deviant Amps is a psychedelic rock juggernaut from England that was founded in 1982 by guitarist and vocalist Paul Woodwright. While the band itself is an independent festival mainstay, Woodwright is also one of the organizers of Kozfest, which takes place just after midsummer each year and features some of the finest talent the world of space rock has to offer. Deviant Amps' current trio of Woodwright on vocals, guitar, glissando guitar, and synth; Subassa playing bass and Japanese plum ...
read moreKeiji Haino in London with Charles Hayward and John Butcher
by Jack Gold-Molina
Keiji Haino Copeland Gallery with Charles Hayward July 8, 2016 Cafe Oto with John Butcher July 9, 2016 London, England Keiji Haino, guitarist and founder of Japanese experimental-psychedelic rock band Fushitsusha and reputed experimental musician who has recorded with the likes of Peter Brötzmann, Sabu Toyozumi, and Thurston Moore, performed in jny: London for two nights on July 8th at the Copeland Gallery and July 9th at Cafe Oto. On ...
read moreYaga Sunet: A Cut Through The Heart
by Jack Gold-Molina
Yaga Sunet are a duo from North Somerset, England, whose music is rooted in traditional English folklore and heavy psychedelia. Featuring vocalist Zoie Green and guitarist Ben Balsom, this album is powerful and moving through to its transcendent final chord. From the opening of the first track “Long Gone," as Green sings, “The sun sets in the mind, can't you feel me sinking, another place, another time," the listener is transported to an earlier age. Balsom accompanying her ...
read moreAlan Davey: Sputnik Stan Vol. 1: A Fistful Of Junk
by Jack Gold-Molina
The most recent solo outing by Alan Davey, Lemmy's former replacement in the space rock juggernaut Hawkwind, is a CD/colored vinyl LP that comes with a comic book. The artwork of the comic book is finely detailed and closely follows the lyrics of the songs, giving the reader and listener a vivid picture of the life of Sputnik Stan, who runs a space junk salvage operation. For the uninitiated, while there are great things in space, there is also a ...
read moreRik Wright's Fundamental Forces: Green
by Jack Gold-Molina
Rik Wright is a Seattle based guitarist inclined toward the styles of the fusion-esque rock of Andy Summers and John Abercrombie as much as the post bop stylings of Miles Davis and Charles Mingus. On this album, as with his previous two outings, he teams up with reeds and flautist James DeJoie, acoustic bassist Geoff Harper, and drummer/percussionist Greg Campbell. From the opening phrases of the first tune, “Contradiction," the band demonstrates its intensity and ability to blow ...
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