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Sabino
By Tony Malaby
Label: Arabesque Jazz
Released: 2000
Track listing: Ajo Comino; Sabino; Remolino/Hamza; Gate
The Magic Line
By Scott Colley
Label: Arabesque Jazz
Released: 2000
Track listing: Take It And Like It; The Magic Line; Convergence; Monroe Street; Metropolis; Trip To Williamsburg; Dualessence; Soul Gravity; Mayberry; Dog Logic; Epilogue.
Tony Malaby: Sabino
by Mark Corroto
Finding your way in the jazz world is tricky these days. You are rewarded for playing music within the ‘jazz tradition’ but also penalized for not ‘having your own voice.’ Actually making it, has always been a sticky wicket. Think about artists like Herbie Nichols and Elmo Hope who stuck too their individual visions, but lived ...
Scott Colley: The Magic Line
by Glenn Astarita
One of the premier session bassist’s in jazz steps out of the pocket with his first solo outing for the Arabesque label titled, The Magic Line. And along with the laudable support of saxophonist Chris Potter and drummer Bill Stewart, Scott Colley exhibits multifarious attributes as a leader and composer. The Trio serves up an interesting ...
Ben Monder: Excavation
by Phil DiPietro
Ben Monder has been referred to as a young “unsung hero" or a “new young lion" of jazz guitar, terms which no longer suit him. Not many unsung heroes have a discography as long as your arm , with three records released under their own name (on another, he was co-billed as a leader with vocalist ...
Scott Colley: The Magic Line
by Glenn Astarita
One of the premier session bassist's in jazz steps out of the pocket with his first solo outing for the Arabesque label titled, The Magic Line. And along with the laudable support of saxophonist Chris Potter and drummer Bill Stewart, Scott Colley exhibits multifarious attributes as a leader and composer. The Trio serves up an interesting ...
Bobby Sanabria Big Band: Afro-Cuban Dream...Live & In Clave!!!
by Mark Corroto
Somebody wrote a lyric to Dizzy Gillespies “Manteca" that repeats the chant “we always go back to Dizzywe always go back." Indeed we do. Gillespies bebop/Cuban music hybrid, cubop, came at the perfect time in New York. Gillespie, who never took credit for the fusion, only for promoting it through his popularity, championed his Chinese music ...
Jane Ira Bloom: The Red Quartets
by David Adler
These quartet pieces may have been dubbed “red," but many colors are in fact represented: the moderate swing of “Always Hope," “Monk’s Rec Room," and “Einstein’s Red/Blue Universe"; the beautiful balladry of “Tell Me Your Diamonds"; the free play of “Emergency"; and the stylistic melange of “It’s a Corrugated World." Drummer Bobby Previte shines on the ...
Ben Monder: Excavation
by Mark Corroto
Guitarist Ben Monder inhabits an ethereal world where jazz is created for deep space. Setting aside typical jazz meters and swing he plays with a detached consciousness. This recording, his second for Arabesque, follows up Monder’s trio recording Dust. Monder augments the trio of bassist Skuli Sverrisson (Pachora, Chris Speed, Human Feel), drummer Jim Black (Tiny ...
Jane Ira Bloom: The Red Quartets
by Mike Neely
What a pleasure it is to hear a jazz quartet play with such joy and precision. Jane Ira Bloom has recorded a CD entitled The Red Quartets that is guaranteed to sharpen your listening. There is a snap and verve to this group, an ease of exchange in their multi-layered interaction that is incessantly creative. Mark ...
