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Christian Dillingham: Halcyon
by Hrayr Attarian
On the intriguing Halcyon, his second release as a leader, Chicago bassist Christian Dillingham explores folkish motifs in a haunting ambience. The music here is a mix of his own compositions and covers of diverse backgrounds that showcase, once again, his versatility. The band has quite a unique sound, thanks to its collective virtuosity, with guitarist ...
Mike Stern: Echoes and Other Songs
by Doug Collette
With a running time of seventy-seven minutes plus, guitarist Mike Stern's Echoes and Other Songs is effectively a double album. And like most such expansive works--including classics like Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde (Columbia, 1966) and The Beatles (aka 'The White Album')(Apple, 1968)--it would benefit from consolidation of its best elements (as would a replacement of ...
Madeleine Peyroux: Let's Walk
by Chris May
Madeleine Peyroux's career took off in 2004 with her second album, Careless Love (Rounder), covering songs by such 20th century greats as Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Hank Williams. It was performed with a jazz sensibility, infusions of blues and touches of chanson, and mostly with jazz arrangements. In this respect, it continued the direction set ...
Charlie Ballantine and Amanda Gardier: Midwest Jazz Auteurs Move East
by Robert Middleton
Guitarist Charlie Ballantine and saxophonist Amanda Gardier are young, up-and-coming jazz musicians who are a rarity: they are married and perform together. Hailing from the heart of the Midwest in Indianapolis, they both began playing at a young age, influenced by both jazz and popular music. Together, they have recorded several exceptional albums. Since ...
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2024
by Mike Chamberlain
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 27-July 6 2024 One of the charges that has historically been leveled against the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (the FIJM, or popularly, the Montreal Jazz Festival) is that the programming had gone from a jazz-centric approach in its early ...
Madeleine Peyroux At Barbican Hall
by Chris May
Madeleine Peyroux Barbican Hall Let's WalkLondon July 21, 2024 In the early 1990s, still a teenager, US-born Madeleine Peyroux was a member of the Paris-based buskers The Lost Wandering Blues And Jazz Band led by the singer and raconteur Danny Fitzgerald. Peyroux cut her professional teeth travelling around Europe with ...
Rory Block: Positively 4th Street - A Tribute To Bob Dylan
by Doug Collette
Artists sufficiently motivated to offer homage to Bob Dylan can still end up sounding more foolish than brave. With Positively 4th Street--A Tribute To Bob Dylan, veteran contemporary folksinger Rory Block places herself in the latter category and with no little panache too. Apart from guitarist Cindy Cashdollar's baritone guitar solo etching “Not Dark ...
Marco Tiraboschi e il Questionario di Proust
by Paolo Peviani
Chitarrista, si definisce musicista creativo ed eclettico. La sua musica mescola elementi di jazz, classica contemporanea, echi dei Balcani e del mediterraneo, ed ambisce ad una sintesi quanto più possibile personale e comunicativa. Nel suo ultimo album, In a New World, realizzato in compagnia di Giulio Corini al contrabbasso e Daniele Richiedei a violino ...
Jack Kelly's Honkatonktet At Scott's Jazz Club
by Ian Patterson
Jack Kelly's Honkatonktet Scott's Jazz Club Belfast, N. Ireland April 26, 2024 Who knows what sort of music Charlie Parker would have made had he lived another thirty-five years? It is tantalizing to think that he might have ventured into country music. Parker loved country music, especially Hank Williams, drawn ...
Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Volume 21: To Be Likened Later, Spring 65: The Forgotten Gil Evans Sessions
by Mike Jurkovic
Veteran producer Tom Wilson was never a man known to shun aside inspiration. Prior to finding himself at the eye of the Bob Dylan hurricane, Wilson had not only founded Transition Records, but gave the world Sun Ra's unruly, post-bop big band debut Jazz by Sun Ra (Transition, 1957), Cecil Taylor's defiant and quixotic Jazz Advance ...
