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Gregg Robins Debut CD 'Everything That Matters' Offers Plain-Spoken, Emotive Rock with a Russian Twist

Source: Seth Cohen PR
August 25, 2011

Plain-Spoken, Emotive Rock, with Unexpected Instrumentation, as Gregg Robins Crafts a Personal Collection with a Russian Twist Debut CD, Dedicated to Singer-Songwriter's Three Daughters, is, Literally, “Everything That Matters" Underlying Patriotism of an American Abroad Fuels a Pair of Tracks; Album Out October 25th With plain-spoken, emotive lyrics and unexpected instrumentation, singer-songwriter Gregg Robins crafts a heartfelt debut CD dedicated to his three daughters. Robins, a Bronx transplant living in Russia, builds engaging songs that are direct and conversational in ...

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The Bebop Trio Takes a Tradition and Makes It Personal

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
August 25, 2011

You hear a name like the Bebop Trio and you think, “Oh, OK, I think I know what this one is going to sound like." In the case at hand, you'd probably be wrong. The trio's self-titled debut (Creative Nation Music 018) is not at all the business-as-usual rehashed bebop bag. It has an unusual instrumentation: Lefteris Kordis on piano, Alec Spiegelman, clarinet, and Thor Thorvaldsson on the drums. They alternate spontaneous improvisations with unusual treatment of some terrific and ...

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Reed Trio - Last Train to the First Station (Kilogram Records, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
August 25, 2011

The Reed Trio is a group consisting of Ken Vandermark, Mikolaj Trzaska and Waclaw Zimpel on various saxophones and reed instruments. For some reason I thought this music was recorded for a film soundtrack, and if so it makes quite a bit of sense. The music moves through a wide variety of textures and nuances in a live setting before a polite but engrossed audience. The musicians blend their sound well on the variety of instruments, and will also step ...

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Craig Taborn - Avenging Angel (2011)

Source: Something Else!
August 25, 2011

Finally. After more than four years of noting on this space his key contributions to other people's records, including list-topping performances led by David Torn, Chris Potter and Michael Formanek, we get to talk about a record actually led by one of the very top keyboardists working in downtown New York today. That's because a few months ago, Craig Taborn had issued his first album in seven years. Minneapolis-born Taborn, having first attained notice as James Carter's pianist in the ...

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Average White Band - Live at Montreux 1977 (2011)

Source: Something Else!
August 25, 2011

Improperly named, the Average White Band was anything but. First off, one of the rhythm guys, at least by this point, wasn't white. Second, and this is far more important, they funked it up with a vigor and style that would never be confused with average. Initially formed in the late 1960s by Scots saxophonists Malcolm “Molly" Duncan and Roger Ball, AWB later expanded to include bass playing vocalist Alan Gorrie, the late drummer Robbie McIntosh (replaced here by Steve ...

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John Scofield Trio - Enroute (2004)

Source: Something Else!
August 25, 2011

By Mark Saleski It was at a small Japanese restaurant north of Boston (or south of Concord, New Hampshire, depending on your level of Hub-centricness). Sushi. Never had it before. You read about things like this for years. Suddenly, it's your turn. Step right up, it's time to end the mystery. Tuna, soy, wasabi, ginger ... it was some far-east alchemy. Less than a second into the experience and my happy palate knew that something new and wonderful had been ...

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Nels Cline Trio - Silencer (Enja, 2011) ****

Source: Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
August 25, 2011

By Paul Acquaro There is some quality to the Nels Cline Trio's Silencer that keeps making me think of the first album by the jazz-rock trio Gateway. Cline's guitar here is often a clean and clear fluid mix of single note runs and well placed double stops that echoes Abercrombie's work decades earlier. Likewise, Cline dirties up his sound but often never quite gets into full on distortion when the playing intensifies. Though released nearly 20 years apart, both albums ...

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John Hiatt - Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymn (2011)

Source: Something Else!
August 24, 2011

Productive and consistently good are two attributes that don't usually go together in the record making business, but it's been John Hiatt's hallmark for a while, now. Particularly at the start of the new century, from Crossing Muddy Waters (2000) on, Hiatt has made a shiny fresh disc of new tunes every year or so and there's been little to complain about them. Less than a year and a half from another solid product with The Open Road comes Dirty ...

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