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Ed: Ongoing Dreams
by AAJ Staff
Down on Boylston Street by the Fenway, Sophia's is Boston's best Latin dance club. On any given weekend night, the place is completely packed. If you don't have the look or the moves, get upstairs. (That's where I go.) But damn! The music is hot! Pianist and bandleader Edú Tancredi has done his thing ...
Ronnie Cuber: Cubism
by Jon Wagner
Although this date was recorded in 1990, it has only recently been released on CD. It is a solid effort. Cuber's the leader, and the date is built around his baritone sax. But the sidemen - Joe Locke on vibes, Michael Formanek on bass, Bobby Broom on guitar, Ben Perowsky on drums and special guest Carlos ...
Spike Wilner Ensemble: A Blues of Many Colors
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist/composer Spike Wilner got the group together for a month of gigs at Smalls, the jazz club in in New York's Greenwich village, to polish up their chops for the recording session that resulted in A Blues of Many Colors. Time well spent: they put a nice shine on nine of Wilner's compositions.The ensemble ...
Emilio Solla y la Orquestrable: Suite Piazzollana
by Dan McClenaghan
If you haven't developed a taste for the tango, a love for the gentle sighing breeze of the squeezebox, then Emilio Solla's Suite Piazzollana might seem to be inhabiting a space out in music's left field. The musical pallet, for the American ear, is a bit unusual: two saxophones, trumpet, cello, violin, bandoneon, bass, drums, and ...
Myron Walden: Higher Ground
by AAJ Staff
Myron Walden is one to watch for. That's been the buzz about him for some time, and this record does nothing to diminish the belief. For those as yet unfamiliar, Walden is a 20-some old alto saxophonist from Miami who first gained notable experience playing with Wynton Marsalis, Nat Adderley and Lou Donaldson, and later went ...
Cheek/Iverson/Street/Rossy: Lazy Afternoon/Guilty
by Mark Corroto
Preconceived ideas about musical lineups (and just about everything), often lead to disappointment. Maybe it’s just the times we live in, or our subconscious reliance on marketing. Reading the lineups of these two live sessions, I was fully expecting deconstructed renditions of jazz classics. The results, although unforeseen, were ultimately satisfying. The youthful ...
Seamus Blake/The Bloomdaddies: Mosh For Lovers
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Seamus Blake asks the musical question: why can’t jazz musicians be rock stars too? His band Bloomdaddies delivers the answer: The square root of pi cannot be written with much certainty. In other words, rocks stars are rock stars because of the swagger factor, not (in most cases) musicianship. The Bloomdaddies have plenty ...
Jeremy Pelt: Profile
by Jim Santella
His original compositions flow from jazz's straight-ahead tradition. His sextet is keeping the flame alive through solid teamwork and gentle exploration. Their blend treats each instrumental voice equally, but highlights the drummer just a little more than the others. And why not? Ralph Peterson does a superb job of knitting them into one well-composed unit.
Matt Penman: The Unquiet
by Phil DiPietro
Either Matt Penman wrote his own bio or paid a comedian friend (who knows a thing or two about the jazz world) to write it for him. It contains the following gems that lend humorous light to the how and why he eventually grew up to be a beautifully introspective, reflective composer, to wit: “The introduction ...
Xavier Davis Trio: Innocence of Youth
by Paul West
Remember the great groups in jazz who use their musical instruments like an uncharted form of speech, using rhythm and fortissimo movements to speak to each other instead of catering to an audience? With Innocence of Youth, the Xavier Davis Trio teaches a lesson in “sayin' somethin'" with music. What do they say? How about this: ...
