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Something Else! Featured Artist: Grover Washington Jr.
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By Something Else Reviews Credit, or discredit, the late Grover Washington Jr. with setting the template for the whole smooth jazz thing. There was always more to him than that. Really. For all of the knocks he's taken, dig deeper into Washington and you'll see why retains the title of Mister Magic for us: “SAUSALITO" (LIVE AT THE BIJOU, 1977) By S. Victor Aaron Grover Washington's 1970s recording career was in a lot of ways similar to George Benson's: Both ...
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Robben Ford - The Inside Story (1979)
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By S. Victor Aaron Two weeks from today the Yellowjackets are set to release their 20th or so proper album, Timeline, and we'll gonna give you the lowdown on it soon. But as the 'Jackets celebrate thirty years of making records, it might be a good time to cast a gaze back on the record where one of jazz fusion's most successful and longest running concerns got its start. That's right, the Yellowjackets was born out of the sessions for ...
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INXS: Original Sin
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NEW ALBUM STREAMING NOW THROUGH MARCH 7 ON AOL MUSIC Original Sin, the new album from INXS, is featured this week on AOL Music's Listening Party . The entire album, streaming all week (February 28—March 7), features new recordings of the band's signature hits chosen by and re-imagined with some of the world's finest musicians including Ben Harper, John Mayer, Rob Thomas, Pat Monahan, Tricky, Nikka Costa and more. Listen now at AOL Music. The digital album version of Original ...
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Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore - Three Kinds of Happiness (Not Two, 2010) ****1/2
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Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
By Guy Peters I have a soft spot for the bass clarinet. The quirky look of the instrument certainly has something to do with that. Also the fact that it has rather few practitioners and the realisation that some of them (like Rudi Mahall and Louis Sclavis) do tremendous things with it. Of course, there's also the peculiar, bleating sound, especially in the lower register. As it happens, the latter is almost absent on this third album by Jason Stein's ...
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Memorize the Sky - Creeks (Broken Research, 2010) ****
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Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
By Stef I was quite thrilled by “In Former Times," the second album by “Memorize The Sky," for its uncompromising nature and their adventurous take on the sax trio, a journey they take totally over the edge in “Creeks." The band is Matt Bauder on reeds, Zach Wallace on bass and Aaron Siegel on percussion. And they add some electronics. Strangely enough, the album reminds me of John Zorn's “O'o“ because of its fresh jungle and bird sounds, with one ...
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Agusti Fernandez, Baldo Martinez and Ramon Lopez - Triez (Emarcy, 2010) ****
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Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
By Stef No doubt Spain's number one pianist in jazz is Agustí Fernández, whose playing spans the history of music, from classical over traditional jazz to avant-garde. Just to show the pianist's breadth, I confront this very accessible and almost Bill Evanesque album with Trio Local, reviewed below, bringing music totally out of the comfort zone of every listener, yet equally coherent as a trio performance. This album's title is a kind of joke, referring to the word “trio," but ...
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Agusti Fernandez, Barry Guy and Ramon Lopez - Morning Glory (Maya, 2010) ****1/2
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Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
By Stanley Zappa At its high points, Morning Glory is no less a musical achievement than the greatest of the great piano trios in our beloved music. Two that come to mind are the The Lowell Davidison Trio and Bill Evan's Sunday at the Village Vanguard. At their best Agusti Fernández, Barry Guy and Ramón López continue the larger, transcendent conversation begun by the players on those canonical recordings and could, for approximation reasons, be likened to a combination of ...
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