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Big Band Power and Small Group Intimacy Featured on Two New Releases from Pianist Satoko Fujii
"Whether performing with her orchestra, combo, or playing solo piano, Satoko Fujii points the listener towards the future of music itself rather than simply providing entertainment."-- Junichi Konuma, Asahi Graph.The versatility of pianist-composer Satoko Fujii is on display once more with two very different releases. Desert Ship (March 23, Nottwo Records) ...
Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura Moves from One Musical Extreme to Another on Two New Releases out March 23 on Libra
Tamura debuts new First Meeting group and produces fourth Gato Libre album. “Tamura develops his solos with smears and slurred phrases that lead up to eruptive outbursts on his horn.... he takes his instrument to precarious heights and to burrowing depths."-- Frank Rubolino, CadenceTrumpeter Natsuki Tamura swings from the most hard-edged abstraction to ...
Pianist/Composer Frank Carlberg's Cinematic "Tivoli Trio" Available March 30 on Red Piano Records
With bassist John Hebert and drummer Gerald Cleaver With the release of Tivoli Trio, his remarkable new CD on the Red Piano Records label, pianist-composer Frank Carlberg has, with the incalculable support of his stellar accompanists, New Orleansian John Hebert on bass and the great Gerald Cleaver on drums, taken his place in the first rank ...
Jazz Vocalist Erika Matsuo's Dazzling Debut CD, Obsession, is Released in U.S.
With pianist Carlton Holmes, saxophonists Paulo Levi and Yosvany Terry, guitarists Romero Lubambo and Freddie Bryant, bassist Essiet Essiet, drummer Willard Dyson, percussionist Nanny Assis The superb and startlingly accomplished debut CD from vocalist Erika Matsuo, Obsession, (March 23, Erika Records) resolves the usual preconceptions about a “first voyage out" with a wholly positive and ...
Jens Wendelboe's Big Crazy Energy New York Band: Inspirations, Vol. 1
by Jakob Baekgaard
Whenever Norwegian-born trombonist, composer, and arranger Jens Wendelboe starts working with his Big Crazy Energy New York Band, there's a rock-solid guarantee that it won't be boring. With uncompromising energy and an impeccable flair for picking tunes that will make his band swing like mad cats on the prowl, Wendelboe serves up his very own funkified ...
Torben Waldorff: American Rock Beauty
by Jerry D'Souza
Guitarist Torben Waldorff does not shy away from a challenge. He channels the unknown for germane ideas that he plumbs with resolute imagination. And it does not matter if inspiration comes on the path to invention or flies from the written note. Waldorff's wrote the music for this CD with his band in mind. ...
Komeda Project: Bringing New Life to a Legend
by Bruce Lindsay
Komeda Project is dedicated to the music of the great Polish composer Krzysztof Komeda. Komeda died young--days before his 38th birthday. During his relatively short life, he composed numerous film scores and jazz tunes and was responsible for the seminal album Astigmatic (Muza Records, 1965)--one of Jazzwise Magazine's “100 Jazz Albums that Shook the World." It ...
Paul Meyers: Paul Meyers Quartet featuring Frank Wess
by Bruce Lindsay
Guitarist Paul Meyers' stated intention with Paul Meyers Quartet featuring Frank Wess was to create “a relaxed, straight-ahead jazz CD," and with the assistance of some delightful sax and flute from NEA Jazz Master Frank Wess he has succeeded admirably. The mix of standards and originals is thoughtfully put together and the end result is a ...
Klezmer Conservatory Bassist Jim Guttmann Ranges from Klezmer to Clave on His Debut Release as a Leader
Jim Guttmann takes on the Jewish and Klezmer repertory with abundant humor, passion, and a refreshing dose of over-the-top rowdiness." --Dr. Hankus Netsky, Founder and Artistic Director, Klezmer Conservatory Band Bessarabian Breakdown (Kleztone Records) has been a long time coming. For more than 30 years, bassist Jim Guttmann, best known as the anchor man in the ...
Saxophonist Oleg Kireyev and Pianist Keith Javors Debut New Project "Rhyme and Reason" with Striking CD
AVAILABLE INTERNATIONALLY ON APRIL 13 ON INARHYME RECORDS“Oleg Kireyev, Keith Javors, Boris Kozlov, and E.J. Strickland have created a memorable modern mainstream jazz set that also mixes together aspects of Oleg's Russian heritage, many adventurous moments, and subtle unpredictability. It is this type of forward-looking recording that grows in interest with each listen and ...
