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Jae Sinnett's Zero to 60 Quartet: Commitment
by Jack Bowers
Commitment, drummer Jae Sinnett's nineteenth album as leader, is a generally admirable session wherein his Zero to 60 Quartet is in fact a Quintet on most numbers thanks to the inclusion of renowned trumpeter Randy Brecker who shares the front line with veteran saxophonist Steve Wilson. The quintet comes out smokin' on Sinnett's ...
Jay Danley: Robicheaux
by Dan McClenaghan
It is possible to leave the hubbub of the big city behind and still maintain a jazz career. For guitarist Jay Danley that meant pulling up roots in Toronto and relocating to Kaslo, a small village with a population of 1000 in British Columbia, where he built his own recording studio and went about crafting Robicheaux, ...
Ben Sher: Samba for Tarsila
by Neil Duggan
Ben Sher, an acclaimed jazz guitarist based in New York City, brings us Samba for Tarsila, in which he pays a musical tribute to the Brazilian modernist painter, Tarsila de Aguiar do Amaral (1886-1973). Her vivid abstract paintings of the Brazilian landscape have provided Sher with his inspiration for this project. To help him ...
Matt Ulery: Mannerist
by Mike Jurkovic
There is a lilting magic to the music of Mannerist that is hard to deny or find fault with. The “Bridge" starts and the whole day changes, eliciting, perhaps, a feeling of being lighter on the feet, lighter in spirit and, most importantly, lighter in the head. Suddenly all the information they want you to swallow ...
Pierfrancesco Mucari, Gianni Mimmo: How to Get Rid of the Darkness
by Neri Pollastri
Non sbaglia un colpo Gianni Mimmo: dopo lo splendido Transient con il trio Clairvoyance--assieme a Silvia Corda e Adriano Orrù--eccolo adesso in un lavoro non meno bello, stavolta in duo con il polistrumentista siciliano Pierfrancesco Mucari. Registrato tra le suggestive mura di Casa Faranda, antica dimora del borgo messinese di Castroreale, How to Get ...
Magic Malik: Fanfare XP3
by Alberto Bazzurro
Autori sempre diversi (solo il leader ne firma due) per dieci brani immersi in un morbido contesto che è fin troppo agevole definire di emanazione davisiana (post-Bitches Brew, per capirci), con colori per lo più molto calibrati, chiari, avvolgenti: ecco cosa ci offre--ampiamente secondo copione--questo nuovo lavoro del cinquantaquattrenne flautista franco-antillano (ma ivoriano di nascita) Magic ...
Wayne Shorter: Adam's Apple To Super Nova Revisited
by Chris May
In the three and a half years which separate the recording of the Blue Note albums Adam's Apple, in February 1966, and Super Nova, in August and September 1969, jazz went through a paradigm shift going on profound identity trauma. In 1966, though it was already past peak popularity, hard bop was still an important soundtrack ...
Miles Davis: Workin' With the Miles Davis Quintet
by Mark Corroto
1955/56 was an inflection point in the career of Miles Davis. The trumpeter and bandleader went from a promising talent to the high profile face of jazz and popular music. The two marathon sessions, May 11 and October 26, 1956, that created Workin' With the Miles Davis Quintet along with Cookin', Relaxin' and Steamin' might have ...
Kings of Strings: Live in Belgrade
by Nenad Georgievski
Initiated by the Guitar Art Festival in Serbia in 2012, Kings of Strings was a project that brought together three exceptional guitarists: Vlatko Stefanovski, Tommy Emmanuel and Stochelo Rosenberg.. At the festival, and on a string of tour dates throughout Europe, they showcased their abilities and talents in exceptional performances. The Guitar Art Festival is a ...
MEM_MODS: MEM_MODS Vol. 1
by Doug Collette
Modern bluesman extraordinaire Luther Dickinson is always doing something interesting inside or outside of the recently reconfigured North Mississippi Allstars. He is one of the Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers, produced and played on the stellar LP by Sisters of the Strawberry Moon, Solstice (New West Records, 2019), and collaborated with Colin Linden on Amour (Stony Plain, ...
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