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David Blake Quartet: Radio Casual
by Jack Bowers
To gain a clear picture of the sort of high-caliber straight-ahead jazz Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based guitarist David Blake's quartet has to offer on Radio Casual, go directly to “Nut Bread," the second track, bypassing the more offbeat, effects-enhanced opener, “Jonas with a View" (the “Jonas" presumably a reference to the group's drummer, Jonas Esser). There is one other outlier, the shadowy “Dew Sweeper," but as Blake wrote and arranged every number, he quite obviously charted every course, plain-speaking or otherwise.
Continue ReadingMeet Dabin Ryu
by Cheryl K.
In this hour, an interview with pianist, arranger, and composer Dabin Ryu. Her debut album on Endectomorph Records is titled Trio! with Joe Martin on bass and Johnathan Blake on drums. Playlist Lôro Malandro “Baião Quotidiano" from Enrumbado (Dodicilune) 2:30 Paul Harrison “Transition" from Encontros: The Music of Egberto Gismonti (Harriphonic) 1:47 Carter Fox “Boomin'" from Physics of the Impossible (Insert) 2:38 [excerpt] Dabin Ryu “Vertigo" from Trio! (Endectomorph) 4:57 [excerpt] Dabin Ryu “The Well" from Trio! (Endectomorph) ...
Continue ReadingSeulah Noh Jazz Orchestra: NOhMAD
by Jack Bowers
On her debut album, NohMAD, South Korea-born, New England-educated Seulah Noh is listed as composer, arranger and conductor. She could be described as “painter" too, as she uses her seventeen-piece orchestra (enlarged to twenty-one by strings on three numbers) as a palette on which to render sophisticated--and sometimes daring--portraits in sound that are generally progessive but seldom boring. Several impart an East Asian flavor, especially the three-movement Traveler's Suite, which presumably depicts Noh's long journey from Korea ...
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