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Mike Boone Friends and Family: Confirmation

by Richard J Salvucci
Sometimes, a random listener intervenes to comment on music a reviewer is working on. Who are those guys?" with a tone that means, I should know this right?" Well, if you happen to be from Philadelphia, shame on you. This was some kind of party, maybe a party in a church, or as bassist Mike Boone comments, a church in a party." Especially if you walk in on Hymn," the idea that someone happened on a hip Sunday service is ...
Continue ReadingEric Wyatt: A Song of Hope

by Jack Bowers
On A Song of Hope, his second album for Whaling City Sound, saxophonist Eric Wyatt offers more than hope; he offers assurance that contemporary jazz is alive and well in and around his home base of Brooklyn, NY. Wyatt, the godson of another rather well-known saxophonist, Sonny Rollins, performs in groups of various sizes, from quartet to octet, with vocals by Samara Joy on two numbers, Fragile" and Wyatt's Say Her Name." The almost-constants are pianist Donald Vega, bassist Eric ...
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