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Glitter Stars Speak: Hermetic Fever
by Glenn Astarita
Hermetic Fever, performed by Josh Gerowitz (guitar, EFX) and Louis Lopez (trumpet, EFX) is a spellbinding tapestry of sound that might have the listener questioning reality. Inspired by the Hermetic tradition of philosophy, practical magic and alchemy, these musical alchemists embark on an improvised journey that transcends genres and expectations. Clocking in at 37 minutes without ...
Chad Edwards: Wyoming Roads
by Nicholas F. Mondello
In his performing career, pianist Chad Edwards has probably heard more wisecracks and quips about his actually being a retired rocket scientist than there are stars in the Cosmos. However, rest assured--as he has done in his parallel and now formal career, and is presented in Wyoming Roads--his keyboard and compositional talents certainly stand on their ...
Rory Block: Positively 4th Street - A Tribute To Bob Dylan
by Doug Collette
Artists sufficiently motivated to offer homage to Bob Dylan can still end up sounding more foolish than brave. With Positively 4th Street--A Tribute To Bob Dylan, veteran contemporary folksinger Rory Block places herself in the latter category and with no little panache too. Apart from guitarist Cindy Cashdollar's baritone guitar solo etching “Not Dark ...
Dan Dean: Vocalise
by Dan McClenaghan
Dan Dean has created a new music genre, a choir-of-angels approach molded via meticulous overdubs using one voice. His own. Fans of the bassist (vocalist, sound shaper, engineer) could not have had a clue as to this vocalise direction Dean would take from listening to 2010's Duets (Origin Records) with vibraphonist Tom Collier or to 2 ...
Luther Allison: I Owe It All To You
by Dan Bilawsky
If you're hip to Luther Allison from his previous and continuing work--ivory tickling for breakout vocal star/Grammy winner Samara Joy, sideman recordings on the 88s and drums for notables like trombonist Michael Dease, clinics and teaching engagements aplenty, performances at upper tier venues in New York and across the country and abroad--then you already know the ...
Tony Romano: Three Chord Monte
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Three Chord Monte from New York-based guitarist Tony Romano offers thirteen selections with an expansive range of grooves, textures, and intensities. Throughout the session, he and his fine players demonstrate their obvious allegiance to melody, lyricism, and appropriate rhythmic foundation, yielding a fine overall recording. The starter, “Cadillac Green" has a deep-pocketed funk ...
Alex Kautz: Where We Begin
by Katchie Cartwright
Born and raised in São Paulo, drummer Alex Kautz moved to Mexico City with his parents in 1996. His sound world growing up included his parents' MPB (música popular brasileira), bossa nova and samba, along with North American rock and a bit of classical music. Jack DeJohnette's New Directions (ECM, 1978)--with Lester Bowie, Eddie Gomez and ...
Jon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project
by Chris May
Synchronicity is a wondrous thing. Item: At around the same time that Albert Ayler was developing his sound in the U.S.A., the Ethiopian tenor saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya was forging a strikingly similar one in Addis Ababa. Neither player had heard the other, and Mekurya had never heard any jazz at all. Feel the Force?
John Kameel Farah & Nick Fraser: Farahser
by Glenn Astarita
On their entrancing debut duo outing Farahser-- Toronto/Berlin-based keyboardist and composer John Kameel Farah and eminent Toronto area drummer Nick Fraser--engage in a thrillingly unpredictable and genre-defying musical conversation. Drawing upon their respective backgrounds in classical, jazz, and experimental music, Farah and Fraser craft a series of spontaneous compositions which distort the lines between ...
Roberto Bindoni: Summer Things
by Neri Pollastri
Mezz'ora di musica per sola chitarra, acustica o classica; musica sempre sospesa, ora dolce e melodica, ora più astratta e riflessiva, costruita con raffinati arpeggi, ma anche valorizzando stridor di corde, riverberi, suoni parassiti e percussioni sulla cassa: questo è Summer Things, album autoprodotto del chitarrista bresciano Roberto Bindoni. Il lavoro arriva dopo Winter ...
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