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Album Review

Trio Shalva: Riding Alone

Read "Riding Alone" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
November 25, 2011

All three members of this group originally hail from Israel, but Trio Shalva actually took shape a world away, at the global epicenter of the jazz universe. Pianist Assaf Gleizner, guitarist/bassist Koby Hayon and drummer Nadav Snir Zelniker were each pursuing their own musical paths in New York when they connected for a gig in 2009, and the musical sparks were quick to fly. Now, two short years later, they arrive with their debut album, filled with worldly music that ...

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Live Review

Warren Haynes Band: Denver, CO, October 31, 2011

by Geoff Anderson
November 25, 2011

Warren Haynes BandOgden TheaterDenver, COOctober 31, 2011 At this point in his career, Warren Haynes can to do whatever he wants--at least musically, anyway. And, apparently, Haynes felt like being James Brown for an evening. And so it was that the Warren Haynes Band played nearly an hour-and-a-half of James Brown's funk and soul during its second set on Halloween at a packed and sweaty Ogden Theatre in Denver. For this show, Haynes billed himself ...

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Album Review

Jozef Dumoulin Trio: Rainbow Body

Read "Rainbow Body" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
November 25, 2011

Belgian pianist Jozef Dumoulin's début release with his band Lidlboj, Trees Are Always Right (Bee Jazz, 2009), revealed this one-time John Taylor student to be something of an aficionado of farting around. This is not meant pejoratively, necessarily; farting around is an honorable activity in some quarters of improvised music, and can give rise to good work (think of Marion Brown's Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (ECM, 1970), for example). That said, the results were encouraging when Dumoulin, as a ...

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Album Review

The Landrus Kaleidoscope: Capsule

Read "Capsule" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
November 25, 2011

On Capsule his second album on his own BlueLand label, baritone saxophonist and reed multi-instrumentalist, Brian Landrus pushes the boundaries of jazz and explores a more fusion-like style inspired by Motown and other related genres. Contributing to this electric sound is the addition of Nir Felder to the rhythm section whose Jimi Hendrix-like guitar on the Caribbean-flavored “Like The Wind" meanders away from the theme, giving the tune its jazzy edge, while Landrus--on the rarely heard bass ...

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Album Review

The Tierney Sutton Band: American Road

Read "American Road" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
November 25, 2011

Tierney Sutton inhabits songs as few vocalists can or do: with a certain vulnerability and powerful drama that imbues each song with an electricity that sends tingles up and down the spine. These singular characteristics melt into her sense of how to vary her phrasing with such subtlety that, if the inner ear is not tuned in to her voice, the magic vanishes in the flashes of lightning that appear every now and then as she sings. And so to ...

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Album Review

T.K. Blue: Latin Bird

Read "Latin Bird" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
November 25, 2011

Saxophonist Charlie Bird" Parker is primarily remembered as an incendiary, revolutionary, improvisatory soloist, but he often expressed his style through composition, and many of Parker's original tunes became part of the modern jazz canon. Latin Bird, saxophonist T.K. Blue's label debut for Motema, his ninth release as a leader, reworks eight of Parker's tunes in Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Caribbean and related rhythmic styles.Blue serves as musical director for pianist Randy Weston, with whom he's played for more than three ...

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From the Inside Out

Jazz Mergers & Acquisitions

by Chris M. Slawecki
November 24, 2011

T. K. BlueLatin BirdMotéma Music2011 Saxophonist Charlie Bird" Parker is primarily remembered as an incendiary, revolutionary, improvisatory soloist, but he often expressed his style through composition, and many of Parker's original tunes became part of the modern jazz canon. Latin Bird, saxophonist T.K. Blue's label debut for Motema, his ninth release as a leader, reworks eight of Parker's tunes in Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Caribbean and related rhythmic styles.Blue ...

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Album Review

Hal Galper Trio: Trip the Light Fantastic

Read "Trip the Light Fantastic" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 24, 2011

About eighty percent of the jazz piano players out there can fit into one of two schools: that of the introspective, harmonically rich Bill Evans mode; or the more percussive and gregarious Bud Powell bebop approach. There's also a small slice of the that pie that draws it primary inspiration from bright and splashy Art Tatum/Oscar Peterson pre-bop playing style, along with various subsets. Then there are those who take a foundation of one of those approaches and craft something ...

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Album Review

Stefano Battaglia Trio: The River of Anyder

Read "The River of Anyder" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
November 24, 2011

After three ECM recordings that finally brought greater international attention to the eclectic breadth of Stefano Battaglia's nearly two-decade career, the Italian pianist turns to a format steeped in jazz orthodoxy for The River of Anyder . But those familiar with his career, if only his ECM dates--the freer terrain explored with two trios on Raccolto (2006); paying tribute to the multi-disciplinary Pier Paolo Pasolini with two discs of more structured music for quintet and sextet on Re: Pasolini (2007); ...

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Album Review

Pascal Niggenkemper: Upcoming Hurricane

Read "Upcoming Hurricane" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 24, 2011

Free jazz trios require an instigator--someone who will incite others to action, counteraction, or response. With the trio of double bassist Pascal Niggenkemper, Simon Nabatov, and Gerald Cleaver, there are three such instigators, and on Upcoming Hurricane, these the three musicians collaborate to create nearly a perfect storm.A relative newcomer, German-born Niggenkemper invited the two veterans for this improvisation session, and as such, he is the architect of these tracks. Certainly, his bass stands up as an equal ...