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Nate Smith: Kinfolk 2: See The Birds

by Mark Corroto
If there were brick & mortar establishments called record stores today, one could imagine the challenge Nate Smith's Kinfolk projects would pose for an employee trying to file his latest releases. Those familiar with the drummer's work in the bands of Chris Potter, Dave Holland, or Alex Sipiagin might place the discs in the jazz section, but then again he's worked with the jazz/pop/soul singers José James and Norah Jones and he heads up the funk/soul band The Fearless Flyers. ...
Continue ReadingSunrise Falling: Gene Ess

by Phil DiPietro
Gene Ess Sunrise Falling Amp Records 2003
Even if you knew who Gene Shimosato was, you're still going to be surprised when you hear Gene Ess! Fans of electronic music and fusion will be most pleasantly surprised with Sunrise Falling. Ess lays it on thick with the aural fruits from expert tinkering with his self-built, PC-based studio and tweaked-out tones produced from a diverse arsenal of axes. An absolutely world-class core rhythm tandem of ...
Continue ReadingFima Ephron: Soul Machine

by Glenn Astarita
Bassist Fima Ephron is well-known for his affiliation with many of the musicians who comprise New York City's fertile and generally investigative Downtown Scene. Ephron's participation with the excellent band Lost Tribe, amid recent collaborations with electric guitar hero David Fuze" Fiuczynski, signifies only a few of his endeavors besides enjoying first call status as a session musician. With his debut release, the artist enlists support from his Lost Tribe band-mates, saxophonist David Binney and guitarist Adam Rogers. However, keyboardist ...
Continue ReadingAction Figure Party: Action Figure Party

by Mike Robinson
I thought Art Good was nuts. There, on the Sunday morning lineup of the 2001 JazzTrax Catalina Island Festival was this band, Action Figure Party." Action Figure Party?!"The band consists of twentysomething musicians from bands like Garbage," Buck Cherry," Incubus," and Beck." One of the musicians' names is Flea." Another goes by Yogi," and a third, with the more-promising sounding name of Sean Lennon, plays... umm... turntable??While some of my friends quietly decided that maybe they ...
Continue ReadingLost Tribe: Many Lifetimes

by John W. Patterson
It is good to hear more of this phenomenal jazz unit. From their debut self-titled release in 1992 to Soulfish in 1993 it was pure ecstasy for me to try to keep up with all this band's hyper-kinetic twists and turns. They could Coltrane soothe, they could play heavy metallic fusion, they would rap to jazz, they got speed funky, and even strains of Mahavishnu Orchestra could be detected. But first and foremost Lost Tribe was avant-garde cutting edge jazz. ...
Continue ReadingLost Tribe: Many Lifetimes

by AAJ Staff
It is good to hear more of this phenomenal jazz unit. From their debut self-titled release in 1992 to Soulfish in 1993 it was pure ecstasy for me to try to keep up with all this band's hyper-kinetic twists and turns. They could Coltrane soothe, they could play heavy metallic fusion, they would rap to jazz, they got speed funky, and even strains of Mahavishnu Orchestra could be detected. But first and foremost Lost Tribe was avant-garde cutting edge jazz. ...
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