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Weasel Walter, Mary Halvorson and Peter Evans - Electric Fruit (Thirsty Ear, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Three of the most adventurous musicians on the contemporary improvisation scene, drummer and percussionist Weasel Walter, guitarist Mary Halvorson and trumpeter Peter Evans combine for a fascinating album of collective improvisation that is entirely impossible to categorize (in a good way.) The song titles and the wonderful album artwork give a science fiction/steampunk air to the proceedings, opening with “Mangosteen 3000 A.D." that features splintered, fragmented trio improvisation and sputtering trumpet over strong guitar. Evans' strong brass takes command and ...
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Hidden Jazz Downloads (Vol. 17)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Have your allowance money for this week? Good, because it's time once again for Hidden Jazz Downloads, a regular JazzWax feature. Since we no longer can hang around record stores reading the liner notes on the backs of new LPs or cruise CD stores pawing the latest discs in racks above the bins, I have roamed around to see what's old online. Retailers haven't found a way yet to let us know what great jazz albums of the past have ...
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma - For the Love of Ornette (Jam All Productions, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Jamaaladeen Tacuma is an underrated electric bassist who came up playing the unique harmolodic music of legendary saxophonist Ornette Coleman. On this album, he pays tribute to Coleman's influence with a set of wonderfully invigorating original music that plugs into the electric music Coleman created with his Prime Time band. Starting off with a touching spoken dedication to Coleman, the music then moves into a very fast improvisation which pulls off the great coup of having the master himself as ...
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Mike DiRubbo - Chronos (Posi-Tone, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Posi-Tone Records is carving out a nice niche for itself by developing a fine catalog of mainstream jazz by up and coming musicians. Mike DiRubbo is an alto saxophonist with a nice dark and burnished tone that is framed well on this album by Brian Charette on organ and Rudy Royston on drums. This is not your average bluesy organ and saxophone date, although the music does come up through the tradition and is very accessible. Particularly interesting is the ...
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One Track Mind: Robbie Robertson, "He Don't Live Here No More" (2011)
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Something Else!
Photo from RobbieRobertson.comBy Nick DeRiso “He Don't Live Here No More," the edgy lead single from Robbie Robertson's upcoming album How To Become Clairvoyant, is a rollicking rebuke of the dark demons that stole too many friends. “I was higher than a lost kite—too far gone," Robertson wails, channelling lost souls like Richard Manuel and Rick Danko, former mates in the Band. “Outside they was beating on the door. ... I said, he don't live here no more." Danko, bassist ...
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Jonathan Parker - Jonathan Parker Group (2010)
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Something Else!
By S. Victor Aaron Many up and coming jazz artists we've covered here typically come from just about every corner of the U.S.A., attend a prestigious music school and, perhaps after some intermediate stop at a regional jazz hub, eventually end up in the intensely competitive but vibrant environs of New York City. After all, “if you can make it in NYC, you can make it anywhere," so the saying goes. The story of the young alto saxophonist Jonathan Parker ...
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"Latin Bird," Motema Music Debut by Alto Saxophonist T.K. Blue, Due for March 8 Release
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Terri Hinte Publicity
T.K. Blue's new CD Latin Bird, his first for Motema Music and ninth as a leader, takes the alto saxophonist back to his musical and personal beginnings. Charlie “Bird" Parker was a major early inspiration for T.K., and eight of Parker's classic compositions are ingeniously reworked in Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, Brazilian, and New Orleans second-line rhythms. The New York-born son of parents from Jamaica and Trinidad, and a mainstay of jazz master Randy Weston's band since 1980, Blue is profoundly fluent ...
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