Results for "Alec Spiegelman"

Alec Spiegelman

Lost Dispatch

By Frank LoCrasto

Label: sTaNk
Released: 2019
Track listing: Travelogue; Montego; Secret Cove; Indira; Mystics; The Islander; Kalinago; La Victoria; Amazonia; Lost Dispatch; Escapist; The Narrows.

Lefteris Kordis: Mediterrana

by Neri Pollastri
May 10, 2017

Da tempo residente negli Stati Uniti e oggi professore al Berklee College, il pianista e compositore Lefteris Kordis è però originario di Atene e mostra di non aver dimenticato la musica ascoltata in giovane età e le tradizioni musicali delle sue terre, studiate nel corso della sua formazione artistica. Questo disco, basato su formazioni variabili di ...

Mediterrana

By Lefteris Kordis

Label: Inner Circle Music
Released: 2016
Track listing: In the Land of Phrygians; Yota; Mediterrana; Deep Green; The Raven and the Fox; Journey with Pilgrims; And I Love Her; Nas.

Bebop Trio

By Alec Spiegelman

Label: Creative Nation Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: Prelude; Celia; Zurzday; First Interlude; Conception; Boa; Second Interlude; Chorale; Change of Season; 317 East 32nd; Celia (Reprise); Postlude.

Oy Yeah!

By Alec Spiegelman

Label:
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Ki Eshmera; 02. Gankino Oro; 03. Bahar Dansi; 04. Mache Teynista; 05. Cuperlika; 06. Hey Lady; 07. Nassam Aleyna; 08. Syrtos; 09. Giant Jew; 10. Chassidic Medley No.1.

Alec Spiegelman / Lefteris Kordis / Thor Thorvaldsson: Bebop Trio

by Mark Corroto
May 10, 2011

The theme of “walk, don't run" occurs throughout the entirety of Bebop Trio, a suite of improvisations on the sometimes pell-mell music of Herbie Nichols, Lennie Tristano, Elmo Hope, Bud Powell, George Shearing and Duke Ellington. Played by three accommodating and adaptive musicians, the familiar and frenetic becomes casual and conversant. Where Powell's “Celia" ...

Klezwoods: Oy Yeah!

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 12, 2011

Decorosissimo prodotto di klezmer puro (eventuali infiltrazioni jazzistiche sono del tutto trascurabili), questo album propone in salsa abbastanza piccante (senz'altro dai sapori accesi, intrisi di un gusto popolare grasso ed estroverso) materiale di provenienza balcanico-anatolica. La spiccata ballabilità, fra sagra paesana e una punta di sana goliardia, la perizia esecutiva, l'ottimo amalgama e la brillantezza cromatica, ...

Klezwoods: Oy Yeah!

by Bruce Lindsay
September 3, 2010

From the opening bass, snare drum and accordion of “Ki Eshmera," the Boston-based Klezwoods deliver a beautifully structured and performed collection of traditional tunes on its debut, Oy Yeah!. The nine-piece band moves from haunting ballads to frenzied dance tunes with ease, adding an intriguing original tune from clarinetist Alec Spiegelman for good measure.

Austin McMahon: Many Muses

by Glenn Astarita
August 1, 2009

New England area drummer/composer Austin McMahon's musicality breathes life and radiates a fresh approach to modern jazz, partly based on neo- classicism and multi-genre derivations here, on his debut as a leader. The artist communicates an abundance of interesting propositions and aims to entertain. McMahon is a melody-maker and provides a buoyant pulse along ...