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Magos Herrera: Distancia
by Holly Holmes
Mexican jazz vocalist Magos Herrera may not be a household name among jazz audiences, but she certainly deserves to be. With the release of her seventh album as a leader, Distancia (Sunnyside, 2009) shows off not only her rich contralto voice but also an artist with expressive depth. Distancia is an extraordinarily diverse ...
simakDialog: Demi Masa
by Chris M. Slawecki
simakDialog--the complex, electrifyingly joyous brainchild of guitarist Tohpathy and composer-keyboardist Riza Arshad--was born in the Indonesian capitol of Jakarta in 1993. Arshad, who wrote and produced all of Demi Masa, their fifth album, won Best Jazz Producer honors at the 2003 Indonesian Music Awards for simakDialog's album Trance/Mission (2002, Ragadi Music), also voted that year's Best ...
The Jazz Session #78: Bud Shank's Bossa Years
Listen Jazz journalist Marc Myers discusses saxophonist Bud Shank's early influence on bossa nova. Although largely forgotten by modern bossa nova fans, Bud Shank's band with guitarist Laurindo Almeida was at the forefront of the Brazillian-folk-jazz movement. Their early records ended up in Rio de Janeiro, where Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto and others listened to ...
Diane Hubka: I Like It Here/Live in Tokyo
by Ken Dryden
Cool-toned vocalist Diane Hubka first caught the attention of jazz journalists with her 1999 debut CD Haven't We Met?(Challenge-A) and she has continued to prove herself as an inventive, gifted interpreter of a wide range of material on her subsequent releases. Since leaving New York City for Southern California in 2004, she has played and recorded ...
Ron Carter: Finding The Right Notes
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
Ron Carter: Finding The Right Notes Dan Ouellette 435 pagesISBN: 978-0-615-26526-1 ArtistShare 2008 Songwriter and vocalist Gil Scott-Heron said that his basslines “glowed in the dark." Trumpeter Miles Davis proclaimed him the “anchor" of his groundbreaking quintet of the 1960s. And he literally laid down the groove for ...
Louis Hayes: The Time Keeper
by John Patten
If drummer Louis Hayes intended to recreate the classic sounds of, well, Louis Hayes recordings on The Time Keeper, he succeeded. In a set of tunes that includes two penned by Hayes, two by saxophonist Abraham Burton, and two by pianist Horace Silver for good measure, Hayes reminds why he's been a leader--and a leading sideman--for ...
Fred Hersch: Plays Jobim
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Since his passing in 1994, there have been countless tributes to Antonio Carlos Jobim. Many of these have been come from musicians who played with Tom, as he was called by those who knew him, including Mario and Maucha Adnet, Jacques Morelenbaum, Oscar Castro Neves, Ana Caram and Eliane Elias. Interestingly, these productions have almost all ...
Fred Hersch: Plays Jobim
by Glenn Astarita
Pianist Fred Hersch's influence and prominence in modern jazz speaks proverbial volumes, whether performing as an ensemble leader or as a solo performer, evidenced here on his renditions of Antonio Carlos Jobim's songbook. As might be anticipated, Hersch approaches the material from a deeply personalized perspective. He refrains from dishing out note-for-note readings by morphing variable ...
TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival 2009
by Alain Londes
TD Canada Trust Toronto International Jazz Festival Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 26-July 5, 2009 The TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival enjoyed its 23rd edition this year with a structure similar to that of recent years. The Mainstage concerts in front of City Hall were a nightly focal point as well ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009: Days 4-6, June 28-30, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 Amina Claudine Myers / Gary Burton Quartet Revisited John Roney Silverbirch Project / Julian Lage / Enrico Rava-Stefano Bollani DuoAndy Milne/Benoît Delbecq Crystal Magnets / Sylvain Kassap QuartetTD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 25-27, 2009 ...
