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Article: Album Review

Remy Le Boeuf: Assembly Of Shadows

Read "Assembly Of Shadows" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


With his second date as a leader, multi-woodwind artist Remy Le Boeuf performs these largely self-penned comps with an orchestra, featuring notable musicians Anna Webber (woodwinds), Alex Goodman (guitar) and other jazz VIPs. Here, the leader's composing acuity brims with multicolored hues and harmonious arrangements, largely executed with a composite of modern jazz and classical inferences ...

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Mareike Wiening: Metropolis Paradise

Read "Metropolis Paradise" reviewed by Don Phipps


Composer-drummer Mareike Wiening's album, Metropolis Paradise, is a homage to her six-year residency in New York. And what a special time it must have been--judging from the music--a warm, sunny collection of shimmering and breezy beauty. Wiening wrote all the compositions, and they reflect what might be a perfect day sitting in Central Park under a ...

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Mareike Wiening: Metropolis Paradise

Read "Metropolis Paradise" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


German-born drummer/composer Mareike Wiening makes her first full-length album and Greenleaf Music debut with Metropolis Paradise. This all-original program is a winning display of her composing, drumming and band-leading, with the help of a very sharp band. Returning from her earlier EP Crosswalk (Self Produced, 2015) are double bassist Johannes Felscher (a fellow Nuremberg native), Canadian ...

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Seven Women (Plus Three) 2018 – Part VII

Read "Seven Women (Plus Three) 2018 – Part VII" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Well, that didn't take long. What started as “Five Women" quickly grew into the present “Seven Women" and will continue to the end of this year as “Seven Women (Plus Three) as a continuing reflection of the state of female vocalists and instrumentalists. We are blessed with an abundance of musical riches. Adi Meyerson ...

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Second Act

Label: Lyte Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. Questions 2. The First Break 3. Departure 4. Losing Cool Introduction 5. Losing Cool 6. Empty 7. Heightened 8. Sharon 9. Welcome to New York 10. Apprehension 11. Acrobat

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Article: Album Review

Alex Goodman: Second Act

Read "Second Act" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Canadian guitarist/composer Alex Goodman has been living in New York City for five years. Second Act is his fifth album, but the first to employ a New York City based band, and all the music was composed there as well. After a solo bass introduction from Rick Rosato “Questions" opens the set with fast swing, the ...

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Label: Lyte Records
Released: 2017
Duration: 07:34

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Article: Live Review

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2017

Read "TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2017" reviewed by John Kelman


TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 23-26, 2017 Amongst the most significant challenges that face any festival is, as the gray and no-hair crowd continues to age, finding ways to cultivate and grow a younger audience. But when you're a Canadian festival, another major challenge is a simple fiscal fact: most ...

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Border Crossing

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Acrobat; Family Breakfast; Style Brise; With Thanks; Eine Kleine Gigue; Collateral Damage; Pure Imagination.

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Words

Label: Empress Music Group
Released: 2016
Track listing: 1 — Daffodils 2 — Cool Embrace 3 — Simultaneous Windows 4 — Too Late 5 — Owl Pellet 6 — Living in the Past 7 — Down to the Water 8 — The First Day of Winter 9 — Little Bird


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