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New Albums From Stern, Shepik, Brady, Eldritch Priest, Bernstein And More

by Bob Osborne
October 3, 2024

This week's batch of new releases includes a more than usual amount of guitar lead music. With new albums from Mike Stern, Brad Shepik, Tim Brady, Eldritch Priest, and Peter Bernstein, plus two new singles from Ari Joshua, there are more than enough examples of guitar music to keep six-string fans engaged. In addition there is an excellent range of new releases featuring a variety of musical combinations and a previously unheard recording of the legendary Charlie Parker.Playlist ...

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Mike Stern, Tony Grey, Janek Gwizdala Vlad Glavchovski and Aaron Parks

by Len Davis
September 27, 2024

Mike Stern withEchoes And Other Voices, bassist's Tony Grey, and Janek Gwizdala, guitarist Vlad Glavchovski, and Mark Hartsuch with Mohini Dey.. Indian violinist Abhijith P.S.Nair, Swiss band Oz Urugulu and Swedish trumpeter Goran Kajfes. Pianist Aaron Parks, German keyboardist Simon Oslander with Steve Gadd and Danish drummer Henrik Engquist with Jimmy Haslip.Playlist Mike Stern “Where's Leo" from Echoes and Other Songs (Mack Avenue) 00:00 Tony Grey “Elastic Man" from Infinity Glitch (Hughes Productions) 07:33 Janek Gwizdala “Gimmee That Stern ...

Album Review

Mike Stern: Echoes and Other Songs

Read "Echoes and Other Songs" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
September 19, 2024

Echoes and Other Songs is guitarist Mike Stern's first release since the loss of pianist, friend and confidante, Jim Beard in March, 2024. Beard, perhaps best known for his association with Steely Dan, appears here as pianist, keyboardist and producer. Stern is still on the long road to recovery following a fall in 2016 that broke both his arms and left him with nerve damage. He has adapted his technique and now uses a homegrown solution to hold his pick ...

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Mike Stern: Echoes and Other Songs

Read "Echoes and Other Songs" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
September 13, 2024

With a running time of seventy-seven minutes plus, guitarist Mike Stern's Echoes and Other Songs is effectively a double album. And like most such expansive works--including classics like Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde (Columbia, 1966) and The Beatles (aka 'The White Album')(Apple, 1968)--it would benefit from consolidation of its best elements (as would a replacement of the amateurish cover design). Even so, this is still a deceptively ambitious piece of work. Of course, advanced thinking has virtually always ...

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Tom Kennedy: New Start

Read "New Start" reviewed by Jim Worsley

by Jim Worsley
April 24, 2024

When thinking of bassist Tom Kennedy, it can be instinctive to think of drummer Dave Weckl. Or vice versa. The two became friends and musical colleagues in their early teens. That is roughly a half century of playing, recording, touring, and much more together. Kennedy is known around the world as a premier, elite jazz and fusion electric bassist. Weckl has the same notoriety and brilliant skill set behind his drum kit. One could go on at length about their ...

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Dial and DeRosa: Keep Swingin'

Read "Keep Swingin'" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 30, 2024

Keep Swingin', a splendid new album from pianist Garry Dial and drummer Rich DeRosa, features “the music of Charlie Banacos." Charlie who? you may ask. And the answer is, there are jazz educators, and then there was Charlie Banacos, whose talent and ingenuity in the classroom influenced and inspired countless jazz musicians for more than fifty years. During that time, he designed more than a hundred courses of study and wrote half a dozen books on composition and improvisation.

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Eleven is the Loneliest Number

by Patrick Burnette
March 16, 2024

Many years ago, bastard Mike suggested that our anniversary shows feature groups comprised of as many members as the anniversary was of years. How's that for a mouthful (mindful?) Anyway, good idea until right about now. Eleven is an awkward number unless you're fielding a footie team, and the boys have some issues finding albums that fit the bill or even glance in the direction of this anniversary. Next year, all bets are off.Playlist Discussion of Gil Evans' ...