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Duke Ellington Legacy: Thank You Uncle Edward
by Michael P. Gladstone
Duke Ellington Legacy is a musical consortium initiated by guitarist Edward Kennedy Ellington II, a grandson of the musical Duke. He met saxophonist/composer Virginia Mayhew in 1987, and by 2004, Ellington wanted to so something tangible about his ideas, turning the process over to Mayhew. Thank You Uncle Edward is the product of her ...
David Buchbinder: Odessa/Havana
by Elliott Simon
Significant Jewish participation in the Latin dance craze of the 1950s resulted in several novelty fusion records that Latinized traditional Jewish melodies within a jazz context. By presenting the melody against a Latin rhythm, “Hava Nagilah" was thusly transformed into a cha-cha. In 2002, Cuban percussionist Roberto Rodriguez reinvented and dramatically advanced this sub-genre by beautifully ...
Gene Bertoncini: Concerti
by Dan McClenaghan
Concerti is twenty-six strings vibrating: A string quartet--two violins, a viola and a cello--with a bass added on the bottom end, fronted by the nylon-string acoustic guitar of Gene Bertoncini.A top notch guitarist who has taught for forty years at the Eastman School of Music, Bertoncini enlisted some of his colleagues from the school ...
Virginia Mayhew Septet: A Simple Thank You
by Michael P. Gladstone
It has always been a pleasure to see saxophonist Virginia Mayhew in performance and enjoy her original compositions, which present solid material which she plays with warmth, grace and the best that mainstream jazz can offer on both tenor and soprano sax. Mayhew had to face a definite speed bump in her musical career ...
Plamen Karadonev: Crossing Lines
by Michael P. Gladstone
Plamen Karadonev is a very likeable new pianist on the Boston scene. Originally from Bulgaria, he likes to combine his native folk and classical music with American jazz on his stimulating debut, Crossing Lines. The album is not without surprises, including the partial presence of Boston's George Garzone who gives a lesson or two ...
Sumi Tonooka: Long Ago Today
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Sumi Tonooka is a pianist from Philadelphia with some impressive credentials: she can recall playing with Philly Joe Jones and has counted upon the services of the redoubtable bassist Rufus Reid on each of her records. More important, she plays with a mature and entirely personal style that makes her a contender for the ranks of ...
Torben Waldorff Releases Second Artistshare CD "Afterburn" - Free Download Available
The just-launched Afterburn CD was recorded in New York in late December 2007. Free MP3 Download Choro Dancado Torben Waldorff From Afterburn 05:50 Musicians are as on Torben's preceding ArtistShare CD Brilliance: Donny McCaslin-sax, Matt Clohesy-bass, Jon Wikan-drums, Torben Waldorff-guitar and with the addition of keyboardist Sam Yahel, a ...
Torben Waldorff: Afterburn
by Troy Collins
Danish guitarist Torben Waldorff follows up his Artist Share debut, Brilliance: Live at the 55 Bar (2006) with Afterburn, a studio session featuring the same core group of New Yorkers featured on his previous release. Based in Denmark and Sweden, but educated in the States, Waldorff is a shining example of today's vibrant international jazz scene.
Satoko Fujii featuring Paul Bley: Something About Water
by Budd Kopman
Pianist Paul Bley was one of pianist Satoko Fujii's teachers at the New England Conservatory of Music, which she attended on scholarship in 1993. Upon attaining her Graduate Diploma in Jazz Performance, she recorded the delicately beautiful and mysterious Something About Water (Libra, 1996), that has Bley playing with her on eight of the eleven tracks ...
Sumi Tonooka Trio: Long Ago Today
by Jerry D'Souza
Circumstance is not always kind, decreeing course and matter. In the case of pianist Sumi Tonooka, circumstance dictated that she wait for ten years before she had the opportunity to record as a leader. The last time she did so was in 1999 on Secret Places, released on Kenny Barron's label, Joken Records. Tonooka ...
