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Rudy Royston & Flatbed Buggy: DAY
by Dan McClenaghan
Drummer Rudy Royston debuted his group Flatbed Buggy in 2018, with the eponymous Greenleaf Records release. It had the feeling of a jazz-folk chamber group. With its unusual instrumentation--Gary Versace's accordion, Hank Roberts' cello, and John Ellis' bass clarinet joining Royston's drums and Joe Martin's bass--a laid-back and engaging Americana vibe emerged. The follow-up, ...
Ilya Dynov: Bridges
by Richard J Salvucci
Is there a distinctive NewYork post-bop sound? If there is, does it owe its existence to some common ancestry? To the revolving cast of players who have populated a number of clubs and bands on a rotating basis since the 1990s? To licks, formulaic harmonies, or just a kind of jazz version of the median voter ...
Pauline Oliveros: Sound Pieces
by John Eyles
In the years since her death in 2016, aged 84, the popularity and influence of composer, musician, academic and author Pauline Oliveros have grown steadily in ways of which she would have been proud. Each year has seen new recordings issued, some featuring Oliveros herself, often on accordion, but increasingly recordings of her compositions played by ...
Laila Biali: Your Requests
by Dan Bilawsky
While the jazz pipeline produces plenty of artists who pay no mind to an audience's interests, those types--figures with tunnel vision, in many if not most ways--rarely reach their full potential. Instead, it's the musicians who make it a point to communicate who tend to forge the strongest bonds with those on the receiving end. Laila ...
Bruno Raberg: Look Inside
by Neil Duggan
As Meghan Trainor would have us believe, “It's All About That Bass," and that is certainly the case here. Bass virtuoso Bruno Råberg brings us Look Inside, a solo acoustic bass album. It might be his first unaccompanied release, but it has been coming for the best part of half a century. He has been an ...
Les DeMerle: Once in a Lifetime
by Jack Bowers
Drummer Les DeMerle recorded his first album, Once in a Lifetime, when he was a twenty-year-old prodigy in 1967. However, as is sometimes true in the music business, the album was lost in the shuffle at Atlantic Records and sat gathering dust until someone had the good sense to retrieve and release it some fifty-six years ...
Giovanni Maier - Flavio Brumat: Musica Carsica
by Neri Pollastri
Qualche anno fa, in occasione del centenario della fine della Grande Guerra, Giovanni Maier --la famiglia del cui padre fu tra gli sfollati dall'Istria --realizzò un lavoro in quartetto dedicato alla ricorrenza, parte di un più complesso lavoro multimediale, 4 x 8 (clicca qui per leggerne la recensione). Della formazione faceva parte anche il sassofonista Flavio ...
Satoko Fujii: Torrent
by Dan McClenaghan
It starts with assertive flurries. The tune is “Torrent," also the album title. From the opening flurries, things do swell in the direction of a torrent. This is pianist Satoko Fujii sitting down at the piano without a pre-planned set. She conjures the music, much as pianist Keith Jarrett did in his monumental solo shows before ...
Jason Kush: Finally Friday
by Jack Bowers
Simply narrating the resume of saxophonist/educator/writer/composer Jason Kush would require more space than is usually devoted to an entire review. For someone his age--or even someone older--Kush, currently an associate professor at Slippery Rock (PA) University, has had an exceptionally wide and productive career as a performer, teacher and author in a multitude of genres in ...
Petros Klampanis: Tora Collective
by John Chacona
Some ideas work better on paper than on record. Take the attempts to fuse jazz and Greek popular music. There is, to be sure, a certain logic to the notion. Both traditions share an emphasis on virtuosic improvisation and a foundation in dance rhythms. Rebetika, the mournful songs of heartache, alienation and ...
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