Jazz Articles about Dave Mattacks

About Dave Mattacks

Album Review

In overseeing Club D'Elf since its inception over 25 years ago, founder-leader-bassist Mike Rivard has maintained a core lineup around which has revolved a colorful cast of collaborators as eclectic as the music they have played. Loon & Thrush is no exception, yet its creation took place in the shadow of the passing of vocalist- multi-instrumentalist Brahim Frigbaine, not just an artistic contributor, but a practical point of reference for the group's exotic pursuits. Much as Rivard collected ...

Album Review

Boris Garcia: It's Time For Tea

Read "It's Time For Tea" reviewed by Doug Collette

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 ...