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Alex Otey: Darwin AI: Surivior Choice
by Kyle Simpler
Concept albums are uncommon in jazz, but pianist, trumpeter, and composer Alex Otey embraces the challenge with Darwin AI: Survivor Choice. This project blends intellect and groove, presenting Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory in a new light by discussing the implications of artificial intelligence through a hybrid of jazz, rock and beyond. Otey's background shapes the album's overall vision. Before turning to music full-time, he studied physics, worked with the Department of Energy and Agriculture and designed software. These ...
Continue ReadingUnsigned Treasures: Christina Gaudet - Solid (2010)
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Something Else!
By Nick Deriso For all of her wandering, Allen Toussaint remains this touchstone for New Orleans-born vocalist Christina Gaudet. But Gaudet doesn't let her lasting affinity for a hometown soul legend pigeonhole her wider ambitions on Solid, though it's subtitled “Featuring new songs by Allen Toussaint." She's particularly adept at engrossing Cocteau Twins-inspired dream pop, an ethereal landscape that couldn't be further away from the aromatic musical gumbo of the Big Easy's famous French Quarter. If anything, Toussaint's trio of ...
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