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Jeff Lederer with Mary LaRose: Schoenberg on the Beach
by Jerome Wilson
Saxophonist Jeff Lederer has used several unexpected inspirations for musical projects over the years, such as Shaker hymns and the writings of Herman Melville. Schoenberg on the Beach may be the most audacious thing he has ever done. It blends the compositions of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern and the sounds of Coney Island together into an intriguing song cycle performed by a team of exceptional jazz musicians. Schoenberg lived in Los Angeles in the latter part of ...
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by Jerome Wilson
Vocalist Mary LaRose has long been putting vocals, with and without words, to the works of modern jazz composers such as Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden and Eric Dolphy. This CD is her first full-length exploration of Dolphy, probing the free-wheeling elusiveness of his work with a group which includes several of the instruments he used in his recordings, cello, vibraphone, and bass clarinet. LaRose approaches Dolphy's music by putting lyrics to some tunes, singing wordlessly on ...
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by Mark Corroto
Vocalist Mary LaRose has explored the instrumental music of jazz artists in the past, penning lyrics to the music of Thelonious Monk,Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, and Charles Mingus. Also included in her previous releases is the music of Eric Dolphy, who has always been a spirit guide for LaRose. With Out Here, she dedicates an entire album to Dolphy's compositions, plus a couple pieces tied to his legacy. This session reminds you of the great Carmen McRae's Carmen ...
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by Alberto Bazzurro
Lavoro ben singolare, questo della cantante newyorkese Mary LaRose, che seleziona un carnet di brani decisamente emblematici di un modo di fare jazz (e relativo tessuto temporale), ci mette su dei testi, e li interpreta col prevalente supporto di un quartetto d'archi. Gli autori sono Charles Mingus e Ornette Coleman, col trait d'union rappresentato da Eric Dolphy (a cui del resto è dedicato il mingusiano “So Long Eric") e la naturale “appendice" costituita da Albert Ayler. A ...
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by Mark Corroto
The best stories are, indeed, the one's you already know. Told over- and-over again, each time a little different. That's comfort food for the ears. Enter vocalist Mary LaRose, recounting the music of Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, and Ornette Coleman with lyrics she penned and performed as a sympathetic partner to these jazz giants. The singer has visited some of this music before, recording Coleman's “Broken Shadows" and some Mingus on her disc Cutting The Chord (Leadhead Productions, ...
read moreShakers N' Bakers: Yearning for Zion
by AAJ Italy Staff
C'è una copertina che sembra presa pari pari da un album degli AC/DC. C'è una setta religiosa dai principi utopistici fondata alla fine del 1700 e rappresentata ai giorni nostri da una piccola comunità nel Maine. C'è la presenza austera delle composizioni di Gyorgy Ligeti e di Arvo Part che si contamina con le visioni sonore e linguistiche di membri della comunità in stato di trance. C'è la voce di Miles Griffith roca, sulfurea, che sembra provenire dal più profondo ...
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