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Abel Mireles: Animo
by Richard J Salvucci
The life stories of musicians raised along the Southern border of the United States tend to be compelling. The Juárez-El Paso conurbation is home to 2.7 million people. It is famous, not to say notorious, for many of its lurid stories of drugs, cartels, mayhem and violence. It is a pity that more of them are not like Abel Mireles' because where the news is sensational, the deeper substance of people's lives and culture often goes unnoticed. Lawlessness has, it ...
read moreThe Radam Schwartz Organ Big Band: Message from Groove and GW
by Jack Bowers
Liner notes notwithstanding, the alliance of a big band and organ is hardly unique—Jimmy Smith, Richard “Groove" Holmes and Joey DeFrancesco are organ maestros who have been there and done that; even the great Oscar Peterson once dipped his toes into that water. Having said that, organist Radam Schwartz and his power-laden New Jersey-based ensemble do the concept proud on Message from Groove and GW, burning on all cylinders and swinging as hard and as often as any band has ...
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