Jazz Articles about Myles Sloniker

About Myles Sloniker

Album Review

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 ...

Album Review

Hyuna Park: Her Morning Waltz

Read "Her Morning Waltz" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
April 15, 2020

Quest'album è il debutto della pianista coreana col suo trio, comprendente il contrabbassista del Colorado Myles Sloniker e il batterista austriaco Peter Traunmueller. La registrazione risale al 2018, anno di nascita dell'organico, che continua a esibirsi nei club dell'area di New York. Hyuna Park ha ottenuto il primo premio all'International Women in Jazz Festival del 2018 e avuto modo di farsi apprezzare in altri contesti, collaborando ad esempio con Vincent Herring e Luis Bonilla. Il ...