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Take Five With Agustin Barreto
by AAJ Staff
Meet Agustin Barreto: Barreto, a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico started playing electric bass at age 16 and soon discovered his gift and passion for music. After a few years of “gigging around town" with a local rock band, he landed several jobs playing on local TV shows. With the encouragement of his peers he ...
Sylvain Provost: Desirs Demodes
by Robert J. Lewis
Sylvain Provost Désirs Démodés Effendi Records 2009 If you've been among the very best in your chosen field (of jazz piano) over a long career, there will inevitably come a time when what you say carries as much weight as what you play. So when pianist Oliver Jones, ...
Take Five With Domina Catrina
by AAJ Staff
Instrument(s):Left-handed acoustic guitar, high-strung acoustic guitar, virtual instruments (basses, percussions, ethnic instruments, etc) triggered from M-Audio oxygen-8 keyboard into MacBook using Apple loops (usually modified in some way), Indonesian flute (suling), soprano recorder, alto recorder.Teachers and/or influences? I spent six or seven months from September '86 studying guitar at the Musicians' Institute. ...
The Conduit Trio: Beyond Liquid Glass
by Glenn Astarita
New Mexico is recognized as an artists' haven, but not an area that features jazz-rock power trios. Nonetheless, there are always exceptions to the perceived rule. Marked by strong material, consisting of memorable hooks, guitarist Robert Branch's sizzling riffs and blitzing crunch chords steer the band through a string of tension and release stylizations. ...
Danny Thompson, Allan Holdsworth, John Stevens: "Propensity" Art of Life CD Release
Art of Life Records is pleased to present a previously unreleased recording by three legendary British musicians. Bassist Danny Thompson (Pentangle, John Martyn, Tubby Hayes, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson), guitarist Allan Holdsworth (Igginbottom, Nucleus, Tempest, Soft Machine, Gong, Bruford, U.K., Tony Williams New Lifetime) and drummer John Stevens (Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Tubby Hayes, Derek Bailey). Recorded ...
Bill Bruford: The Summerfold and Winterfold Collections
by Phillip Woolever
Drummer Bill Bruford announced his retirement from live performance in March 2009, and coincident with the release of his autobiography, Bill Bruford: The Autobiography (Jawbone Press, 2009), he has provided a treasure of remarkable composition and improvisation with these intriguing time-capsule tidbits. Another name for the collections, which chronicle the majority of Bruford's musical exploits from ...
Manu Codjia: Manu Codjia
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Manu Codjia is among the most active sidemen on the French jazz scene and one of the most original guitarists playing jazz anywhere. His playing--clearly indebted to Bill Frisell, but also to Allan Holdsworth, Tommy Bolin on Billy Cobham's Spectrum (Atlantic, 1973), and a host of other influences--constantly generates new ideas on several levels at once: ...
Sebastiaan Cornelissen: U-Turn
by Mark F. Turner
If there's one weakness in recent fusion releases, it's that they are sometimes too formulaic, with overcooked tempos and melodies that have hardly deviated since the sounds of groundbreaking progenitors such as The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Allan Holdsworth. Where's the creativity and new identity? Well one place it can be heard is in Dutch drummer and ...
MoonJune Records
by Martin Longley
Leonardo Pavkovic is a looming presence on the ever-expanding scene of polynational, polymusical globe-gobbling. Some might deem his MoonJune Records operation a special home for European prog rock, but this is only one aspect of its makeup. “MoonJune is a label for progressive music," he announces, holding court, at an Egyptian kebab cafe in Astoria. “Whatever ...
Mark O'Leary: Plucking the Flower
by Eyal Hareuveni
Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary emerged on the global improvised music scene in the last few years, pushing his bold vision and broad scope of musicality through constantly-changing collaborations. O'Leary can cross easily between genres, from progressive, synth-laden rock and seventies fusion to free jazz and abstract soundscapes.The guitarist's encyclopedic interests and remarkable prolificacy are ...
