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Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective: Fiesta at Caroga
by Jack Bowers
Whenever the word Afro-Caribbean" appears in an album's title, there are sure to be plenty of bold and exciting rhythmic passages, and Fiesta at Caroga, recorded by the Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective at the 2022 Caroga Lake (New York) Music Festival, is no exception to the rule. The Collective, founded by guitarist Jose Guzman, ...
Better Worlds
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Better Worlds; 100 Pound Football League; Zeke; Petrichor; Blackbird; Language of the Unheard;
Solar Minimum; Hiraeth; Ravenna Park; Ohana; Forrest.
Matt Peterson: Better Worlds
by Hrayr Attarian
Chicago pianist Matt Peterson is a versatile artist who defies genres. He is both an accomplished, bop-based improviser as well as a sensitive interpreter of the Western classical tradition. Both elements of his style come together on the exuberant and captivating Better Worlds, a collection of 10 of his originals as well as a unique arrangement ...
Meditations On Mingus
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Once Upon a Time There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America; Haitian Fight Song; Self-
Portrait in Three Colors; Pithecanthropus Erectus; Prayer for Passive; Resistance; Meditations on a Pair
of Wirecutters; Remember Rockefeller at Attica; Better Git It In Your Soul.
You Hit The Spot
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: I Love Being Here with You; You Hit the Spot; They Can’t Take That Away from Me; Almost
Like Being in Love; The Very Thought of You; Just in Time; This Can’t Be Love; The End of a
Love Affair.
Tracye Eileen: You Hit the Spot
by Jack Bowers
You Hit the Spot is either the third or fourth album by sultry-voiced, Chicago-based vocalist Tracye Eileen. It was recorded in two sessions: one with a trio (and audience), the other with a sextet. She gets a good head start thanks to a splendid choice of material eight blue-chip tunes, all from the Great American Songbook. ...
Art of the Messenger
By Carlos Vega
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Art of the Messenger; Bird's Word; Ode to the Patient Observer; Across the Ocean; Don't Forget to Ask;
Something to Say; Oh; The Owl; Who Cooks for You; Heed the Call; Serenata for Bela.
Carlos Vega: Art of the Messenger
by Dan McClenaghan
Tenor saxophonist Carlos Vega is a steeped-in-the-tradition fan of early bebop, displaying his passion for the genre with his nods to alto saxophonist Charlie Parker on Bird's Ticket (2016) and Bird's Up (2017), both on Origin Records. With Art Of The Messenger he shifts his focus to Art Blakey, the drummer who led the Jazz Messengers ...
Carlos Vega: Art of the Messenger
by Jack Bowers
In case you didn't quite catch the message" subtly embedded in the title of Chicago-based tenor saxophonist Carlos Vega's new recording, Art of the Messenger, here is a brief reminder that it was drummer Art Blakey who formed the Jazz Messengers in the mid-1950s and led the celebrated hard-bop ensemble until his death in 1990. The ...