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Roberta Gambarini: Easy To Love
by Richard J Salvucci
In 2007, All About Jazz reviewer Michael Caratti wrote: “This debut outing from Roberta Gambarini sees the Italian-born jazz vocalist pair up with two star-studded rhythm sections and legendary tenor saxophonist James Moody, to present what has to be one of the best vocal jazz albums of the decade. Opening with Cole Porter's classic title track ...
Denny Zeitlin: Crazy Rhythm: Exploring George Gershwin
by Dan McClenaghan
Denny Zeitlin's jazz career began when he sat in as the featured pianist on flutist Jeremy Steig's Flute Fever (Columbia Records, 1964). He followed this up with his debut as a leader on Columbia Records' 1964 album Cathexis. While maintaining another successful career as a psychiatrist and college professor, he released more than a dozen albums ...
Bert Joris: Octet Sessions, Vol. 3
by Jack Bowers
For the Octet Sessions, Vol. 3 in Brussels-based Jazz Master Tracks' series of accessible apps, the renowned Belgian trumpeter/composer Bert Joris was tasked with rearranging eight of his splendid compositions written for big bands, symphonic orchestras and other large ensembles for an octet comprised of some of western Europe's leading jazz musicians. Joris chose to do ...
Ricardo Dias Gomes: Muito Sol
by Cary Tenenbaum
This record is not a typical jazz record. The first impression it makes is of something fresh and unique. It invites one to listen to combinations of rhythms, textures and sounds and instrumentation not typically used together. The title track starts the record with a pulsing bass line plus floating synthesizer; the vocal starts ...
Yosi Levy: Acoustic Project II: The Duo
by Dave Linn
Yosi Levy was born in Israel and began playing guitar at the age of 12. After a mandatory stint in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), he began working professionally in clubs around Israel. In the early 1980s, he decided to move to New York City and study classical guitar at the prestigious Mannes College of Music ...
Russ Lossing: Alternate Side Parking Music
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Russ Lossing is not one to let imposed downtime go to waste. The imposition comes from New York City's regulations concerning alternate side parking which requires, only one day per week, that cars park on one side of the street, for street cleaning purposes. The evening car-moving causes jostling. Sometimes open spots are not readily ...
Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet: Emergence
by Jerome Wilson
The Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet expand their sound on this album, the follow-up to their debut, The Emissary, (Play On, 2022). Their unique instrumental blend of reeds, guitar, pedal steel, vibes, harp, and bass retains its ethereal charm while also pushing forward into fresh musical territory. “Bagatelle II," by Ukrainian composer, Valentin ...
Frank Zappa: Funky Nothingness
by Ken Dryden
Long after his death at the age of 52 in December 1993, Frank Zappa remains one of the most fascinating musicians and composers of his generation. Zappa was a rare individual who was equally skilled playing and writing in a number of different genres and styles, Funky Nothingness represents the brief era of a band which ...
Paul Bley Trios: Play Annette Peacock Revisited
by Maurizio Comandini
Questi bellissimi quattordici brani sono stati registrati nel 1966 (i primi otto) e nel 1968 (i restanti sei). Tutti sono stati scritti da Annette Peacock e registrati dal trio di Paul Bley, assieme a brani di altri compositori, per poi essere pubblicati nei mesi successivi alla registrazione stessa. Questo eccellente CD della Ezz-Thetics estrae e raggruppa ...
Marc van Vugt: The Lonely Coyote
by Mario Calvitti
Prima o poi, nella vita di quasi ogni chitarrista viene il momento di realizzare un disco in solitudine, senza altri strumenti che il proprio, in una (o più) delle tante varietà possibili. Per l'olandese Marc Van Vugt questo momento è arrivato alla fine del 2022, quando ha pubblicato il suo primo album di sola chitarra dopo ...
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