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Victor Haskins: Ikigai
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Ikigai is a Japanese concept which pertains to leading a vibrant, fulfilling, purposeful life. Over his career, Victor Haskins, who spent his early years in India, has obviously been influenced by the improvisational potential of music. With Ikigai, the visionary performer, composer and creator of ImproviStory" delivers an utterly enthralling sonic exploration in nine originals. The opener, A New Way," has the cornetist calling the exotic theme which ensuingly provides Haskins an enormous opportunity to expand his ...
read moreTony Martucci Quintet at An die Musik LIVE!
by Tyran Grillo
Tony Martucci Quintet An die Musik LIVE jny: Baltimore, MD November 22, 2014 Drummer Tony Martucci is the kind of musician who sneaks up on you. With the effortlessness of a Paul Motian, he is just as comfortable playing around the beat as he is swinging it hard, balancing those two dynamics as he does with rare intuition. And in the expansive soundscape of his quintet--which finds him in the company of tenor saxophonists Jeff ...
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