Jazz Articles about Josh Deutsch

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Vicki Burns: Lotus Blossom Days

Read "Lotus Blossom Days" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
July 16, 2022

Who knew “Del Sasser" had lyrics? Part of the joy of listening to new recordings is finding such things out. And Vicki Burns does a convincing job of it. In this intriguing compilation of standards--yes, musicians can record from the Great American Songbook (GAS) without disgracing themselves, no matter what anyone says--bop heads and originals, Vicki Burns acquits herself admirably. She is solid evidence that the singer makes the song, rather than the other way around. ...

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Vicki Burns: Lotus Blossom Days

Read "Lotus Blossom Days" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
July 10, 2022

Whatever else can be said about jazz, there is little disagreement that it is best experienced in a live setting. Listening to Vicki Burns' Lotus Blossom Days is as close to a front-row seat in a New York nightclub as many of us are likely to get in these times of high fuel costs and crowded airports. Burns is not attempting to blow the roof off with vocal gyrations and tricks. She never oversings as she tries to ...

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Noa Fort: Everyday Actions

Read "Everyday Actions" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
December 1, 2021

Noa Fort is an Israeli-born pianist, vocalist and composer now living in New York City. She has worked as a music therapist and believes in using music as a healing force. That sentiment comes through in this CD of alternately stimulating and peaceful music. She sings on most of the tracks but only one has lyrics. On the rest her voice floats wordlessly over her piano and various combinations of trumpeter Josh Deutsch, bassist Dan Loomis and drummer Ronen Itzik. ...

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Nikolett Pankovits: River

Read "River" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
February 1, 2021

A dominating proportion of Hungarian lyrics paired with various Hungarian folkloric elements spread across fourteen compositions lend influential character but aren't all-defining on vocalist Nikolett Pankovits' ambitious sophomore outing, River. On the album, the Hungarian singer, based out of New York, is joined by an octet choir of handpicked Hungarian vocalists, who add complex harmonic movements and much body to traditional Hungarian songs that are treated to improvisational arrangements and Latin grooves. The result is a fusion of ...

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Josh Deutsch/Nico Soffiato Trio: Redshift

Read "Redshift" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 16, 2020

The longstanding partnership between trumpeter Josh Deutsch and guitarist Nico Soffiato, placed in flattering light on the ever- welcoming Time Gels (Self-produced, 2011) and Reverse Angle (Self-Produced, 2015), continues to bear fruit with Redshift, the pair's first album for the Italian nusica.org imprint. Focusing on the trio format by working alternately with two of the jazz world's most notable drumming forces--the irrepressible Allison Miller and the boundless Dan Weiss--Deustch and Soffiato create open windows into numerous worlds of sound and ...

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Josh Deutsch, Nico Soffiato: Reverse Angle

Read "Reverse Angle" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
September 17, 2015

Benché tra i nove brani di Reverse Angle si intrufolino Beethoven e Gershwin possiamo dire che l'intrusione apparentemente bizzarra funziona perché l'intero disco suona come un Bignami dello standard moderno. Esecuzioni contenute nel tempo -solo in due occasioni vicine ai cinque minuti di durata, l'intero album meno di quaranta -melodie in bella vista, organizzazione e sviluppo del brano in pieno controllo, trama definita e compiuta, coinvolgimento immediato dell'ascoltatore. Vi è un'atmosfera piacevolmente retrò nella musica proposta da ...

Album Review

Josh Deutsch/Nico Soffiato: Reverse Angle

Read "Reverse Angle" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 16, 2015

Trumpeter Josh Deutsch and guitarist Nico Soffiato have been working together since 2006, deepening their rapport and forming strong musical bonds in the ensuing years. Five years after they first connected, these men delivered Time Gels (Self Produced, 2011)--a duo debut which found them codifying their language. Now, Deutsch and Soffiato return with their sophomore release, a more sonically scopious affair that builds and expands on the sound of its predecessor. Reverse Angle is short by today's ...