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Eric Cabonara CD Release Show at the Highwire Gallery
by Nick Millevoi
Eric Carbonara Fire Museum Presents at the Highwire GalleryPhiladelphia, PANovember 20, 2010After Philadelphia musician Eric Carbonara recorded his album The Paradise Abyss (Nada Sound Studio) in early 2010, he set out on a mission to be personally involved in each level of its creation. In addition to writing and performing the album, Carbonara designed and painstakingly hand created each flawless CD digipak and LP sleeve and self-released the record. The album features Cabonara on solo ...
Continue Reading...Mike Reed's Loose Assembly Featuring Roscoe Mitchell: Empathetic Parts
by Troy Collins
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) has nurtured the talents of Chicago's most inventive artists since 1965. Drummer Mike Reed, the venerable organization's recently appointed Vice Chairman, repays the favor on Empathetic Parts, with his longstanding quintet, Loose Assembly, by welcoming one of the Association's original founders, multi-instrumentalist Roscoe Mitchell, as featured guest soloist.A veteran organizer and concert promoter, Reed's affinity for collaborating with his elders is reflected in his budding discography. Trumpeter Art Hoyle, ...
Continue Reading...Ranjit Barot: Bada Boom
by Ian Patterson
It's a Big Bang alright--bada in Hindi means big--a project of some ambition which unites the finest Indian musicians with some of the best from the jazz and fusion worlds. Together, they conspire to articulate Indian drummer Ranjit Barot's primal scream as a composer, and it's a spectacular and beautiful explosion. Barot spent his first twelve years in England, and this duality makes for a powerful musical cocktail, whereby diverse rhythmic, melodic and harmonic elements coexist as naturally as the ...
Continue Reading...Jordan Young Group: The Jordan Young Group
by David Rickert
Organ albums have always been the comfort food of jazz. Buying one of the classics from the fifties and sixties, the line-up is almost certain (guitar and/or sax, drums, never a bass), and a bunch of songs that would satisfy some primal need for deep, funky grooves. However, this predictability ensured that a lot of them were pretty interchangeable, and after buying three or four of them it became apparent that there probably wasn't a need for any more. But ...
Continue Reading...Barry Cleveland: Hologramatron
by Mark Redlefsen
Hologramatron is an imaginative progressive rock-oriented release by guitarist Barry Cleveland. Proficient technique commands attention throughout the entire CD, alongside Cleveland's writing, and arranging of the entire set. The songs are rich in sonic texture, and with panoptic social political messages that require a close listen. Cleveland recruited a number of responsive talented players to communicate with the proper chops and phrases on Hologramatron. Robert Powell's pedal steel and lap-steel guitars play foil to--and yet also blend ...
Continue Reading...Barry Cleveland: Beyond Convention
by Anil Prasad
The personal is the political for guitarist and composer Barry Cleveland. That perspective is evident on Hologramatron (MoonJune, 2010), his new album featuring songs that serve as a response to the socio-political and religious narratives woven by the voices dominating today's 24-hour news cycles. Cleveland is unafraid of telling it exactly as he sees it, with lyrics that delve deep into the paradoxical viewpoints that inform the morass of modern partisan discourse.Hologramatron is only predictable in its unpredictability. ...
Continue Reading...Soul And The Abstract Proof: Searching For Soul And Its Meaning In Jazz
by Dan Bilawsky
What, exactly, is “soul?" This word is used so often in discussions and writings about music, but I wonder if anybody can actually define its very essence and place in the musical universe? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary lists no less than eight different definitions for soul and, while some of them have a decent grasp on what we may hear, they all seem to be grasping at straws to some extent. One definition--"5 b: the quality that arouses emotion and sentiment"--has ...
Continue Reading...Thomas Marriott: Constraints and Liberations
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Thomas Marriott keeps growing as an artist. He has released CDs at a healthy pace since 2005: an introduction for many perhaps unwary jazz fans to some warped country western flavor on Crazy: The Music of Willie Nelson (Origin Records, 2008); cranking an all-star quintet up in a modern mainstream mode on Flexicon (Origin Records, 2009); and letting it rip on a two-trumpet blow fest with fellow brass man Ray Vega on East-West Trumpet Summit (Origin Records, 2010). Constraints ...
Continue Reading...Ken Peplowski/Bucky Pizzarelli Quintet at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola
by Dan Bilawsky
Ken Peplowski/Bucky Pizzarelli QuintetDizzy's Club Coca-ColaNew York, NYNovember 23, 2010 When the dust has settled on Halloween, the leaves have all fallen off of the trees and the temperature takes a dip, it's clear that Thanksgiving is only a short while away. At Thanksgiving, people come together with family, reunite with old friends and take pause to give thanks for all that we have. Jazz fans in New York go through the same process ...
Continue Reading...Mr Ho's Orchestrotica: The Unforgettable Sounds Of Esquivel
by Bruce Lindsay
The music of Mexican composer and arranger Juan Garcia Esquivel--often referred to with the exclamatory Esquivel!--has been described as Space Age pop, cocktail jazz and lounge music. Whatever it's called, Esquivel's music is happy music --an eccentric but optimistic take on standards and originals, incorporating the newest musical technologies of the '60s. On The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel Mr Ho's Orchestrotica presents eleven faithfully reproduced Esquivel arrangements, in just 30 minutes, and gives rise to one simple question. When will ...
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