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Ron Carter: When Skies Are Grey
by Michael Fortuna
The album cover for Ron Carter's When Skies Are Grey shows the jazz bassist contemplatively looking up toward an overcast New York City sky.Perhaps the title is in reference to how Carter felt during the recording sessions because his wife had died the week before. He attended funeral services over that weekend and came ...
Chucho Valdes: Solo: Live in New York
by James Nichols
It’s a wonderful thing that Chucho Valdes has found such a healthy outlet for his aggression. Valdes demonstrates a dizzying exuberance at the piano during this 1998 solo date recorded at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse. Thoroughout the date it sounds like Valdes can barely contain his enthusiasm. Just when Valdes hits a repeating montuno and solicits ...
Joe Lovano: Flights of Fancy
by AAJ Staff
While Joe Lovano's first Trio Fascination disc explored the spectrum of musical possibilities within a fixed unit, Edition Two goes exactly the opposite way. With four different trios (and playing seven different instruments), Lovano offers variety--and more to spare. On Flights of Fancy, his second celebration of the trio, Lovano plays roles both as melodic leader ...
Pat Martino: Live At Yoshi's
by AAJ Staff
Having received the advance CD of Pat Martino's performance at Yoshi's, I can't contain myself. Really. The street date for Live At Yoshi's is June 19, but a little pre-promotion can't hurt, can it?I'm not excited because I've been eagerly awaiting the next in a sporadic string of Pat Martino CD's. I'm not a ...
Erik Truffaz: Revisit
by Jim Santella
A remix album, Revisité brings back songs from last year's The Mask by trumpeter Erik Truffaz. They're presented through sensual images that have been “enhanced." Remixers Pierre Auditat, Pierre Henry, Bugge Wesseltoft, Alex Gopher and Gilles Peterson add rap, voice samples, scratches, whistles, fuzzy bass, throbbing bass & drumbeats -- and they organize each selection with ...
Chucho Valdes: Solo-Live in New York
by James Nichols
It’s a wonderful thing that Chucho Valdes has found such a healthy outlet for his aggression. Valdes demonstrates a dizzying exuberance at the piano during this 1998 solo date recorded at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse. Thoroughout the date it sounds like Valdes can barely contain his enthusiasm. Just when Valdes hits a repeating montuno and solicits ...
Various: Calle 54
by James Nichols
Every once in a while an “exotic" world album garners national attention and sparks the imagination of American pop music fans. Some past examples include Getz/Gilberto, Irakere, the Chieftains, Bob Marley, and most recently Buena Vista Social Club. The CD reviewed below accompanies the documentary touted as the first full-length film dedicated to Latin jazz, Calle ...
Various: Calle 54
by James Nichols
Every once in a while an “exotic" world album garners national attention and sparks the imagination of American pop music fans. Some past examples include Getz/Gilberto, Irakere, the Chieftains, Bob Marley, and most recently Buena Vista Social Club. The CD reviewed below accompanies the documentary touted as the first full-length film dedicated to Latin jazz, Calle ...
Joe Lovano: Flights of Fancy
by AAJ Staff
While Joe Lovano's first Trio Fascination disc explored the spectrum of musical possibilities within a fixed unit, Edition Two goes exactly the opposite way. With four different trios (and playing seven different instruments), Lovano offers variety--and more to spare. On Flights of Fancy, his second celebration of the trio, Lovano plays roles both as melodic leader ...
Joe Lovano: Flights of Fancy
by James Nichols
Joe Lovano’s most recent release finds the talented saxophonist stretching out in four different trio combinations. Just as Sonny Rollins discovered in his immortal piano-less Village Vanguard performances, a trio allows more freedom than the conventional saxophone settings of a quartet or quintet. The music breathes easily, flirting with both silence and sound. The horns stroll ...
