Jazz Articles about Boris Garcia

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Boris Garcia: It's Time For Tea

by Doug Collette
June 4, 2023

Following Once More Into The Bliss (Dig Music, 2008) and Around Some Corner (Self-Produced, 2017) with It's Time For Tea, Boris Garcia now fully transcends any glib labeling such as “progressive bluegrass, “Americana" or “jamband." And that is notwithstanding the production on all three studio projects by a kindred spirit in the person of Railroad Earth's Tim Carbone (who, tellingly, has also played with them live and on record). The Philadelphia-based fivesome with the ever-so-cryptic moniker has come into its ...

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Boris Garcia: Once More Into the Bliss

by Doug Collette
January 6, 2009

Don't jump to conclusions about Boris Garcia based on the cryptic name or even (especially) the mandala-adorned cover art of Once More into the Bliss. You may be confounded, at first, and then, more likely than not, delighted.

Boris Garcia's music is a predominantly acoustic mix of instruments that gains distinction from arrangements that include sparing touches of the exotic likes of bouzouki and glockenspiel along side Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ and harmonica. Consequently, the conventional bluegrass of ...