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Album Review

Andy Wheelock: Whee3trio: In The Wheelhouse

Read "Whee3trio: In The Wheelhouse" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 25, 2024

The first minute of an imminent immersion into the sound of In the Wheelhouse, by drummer Andy Wheelock and the Whee3trio, is “rhythm, rhythm, rhythm." The second impression is “Africa." This is not surprising given that Wheelock took a good deal of his inspiration for this effort via his study of the Ghanaian gyil, a type of xylophone. He speaks of “running my gyil through the POG2 pedal while writing the music for this album, of playing the instrument with ...

Album Review

Alex Heffron: Looking Out

Read "Looking Out" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
July 6, 2021

Based in Denver, Colorado, Alex Heffron is an imaginative guitarist and intelligent composer. His debut, the engaging Looking Out, demonstrates these talents amply. On it, Heffron leads a sextet consisting of like-minded musicians through an intriguing set of eight of his originals with elegant confidence and simmering passion. The title track opens the album with a charmingly effervescent mood. Over infectious rhythmic vamps, the frontline play the main theme with vibrant and muscular refrains. Heffron takes center stage ...