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Chie Imaizumi: Unfailing Kindness
by Budd Kopman
To all but the most jaded of cynics, Chie Imaizumi's Unfailing Kindness is sure to provide many hours of comfort for the soul as this extremely accessible and yet deeply rewarding music washes away all that might ail it. Imaizumi is letting us see her up close and personal as each tune translates ...
Chie Imaizumi: Unfailing Kindness
by Michael P. Gladstone
The youthful composer/arranger Chie Imaizumi has released a debut album after befriending trumpeter Greg Gisbert along the way. After making a demo from her performance at the 2004 North Sea Festival, she sent it to the Denver-based trumpeter who picked up the musical ball and ran all the way with it per selection of the musicians, ...
Gilad Barkan: Live Sessions
by Eyal Hareuveni
Live Sessions, Israeli-born Boston-based pianist Gilad Barkan's second release, features him in two different settings. The first was recorded in June 2004 with bassist Dan Greenspan and Either/Orchestra drummer Harvey Wirht--the same trio from his debut, Modulations (New Step Music, 2004)--with the second taken from a May 2006 performance with Wirht, fellow Israeli flautist Amir Milstein ...
Wolfgang Muthspiel and Brian Blade: Friendly Travelers
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Friendly Travelers is an attractive set of guitar and drums duets by two widely-traveled (and apparently friendly) musicians. Guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel's ample use of overdubs, loops and other effects is endlessly entertaining and certainly prevents any ennui. This proliferation of guitar voices nevertheless also prevents the listener from focusing carefully on Muthspiel's musical personality. Though capable ...
Gilad Barkan: Live Sessions
by Dan McClenaghan
Boston-based pianist Gilad Barkan flew onto the jazz radar screen with a couple of simultaneously-released discs: guitartist Issi Rosen's Dark Beauty (New Step Music, 2003); and his own Modulation (New Step Music, 2003). Barkan teamed with drummer Harvey Wirht, of Either/Orchestra fame on both discs, and with bassist Dan Greenspan on Modulation. The trio's sound had ...
Delfeayo Marsalis Live at The Blue Note
by Ernest Barteldes
Delfeayo Marsalis Quintet The Blue Note New York City, New York January 4, 2007 Tony Bennett quotes Duke Ellington telling him to “sing sweet and put a little dirt in," and that is the best way to describe Delfeayo (pronounced Del- FEE -yo) Marsalis' Quintet set at New York's ...
Junk Box: Fragment
by Kurt Gottschalk
It must be a daunting job to be the third wheel in a trio with the likes of Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura. The husband-wife piano and trumpet duo are remarkably active. Both are inventive composers leading numerous bands with diverse approaches and each is often in the other's groups. They've got a commonality it would ...
Paul Carlon: Other Tongues
by Budd Kopman
If you are at all into Latin music in all of its rhythmic diversity, and furthermore like the fusion of that music with jazz, then you'll find saxophonist/composer Paul Carlon's Other Tongues to be a kick-ass album that will keep you moving from beginning to end while engaging the mind. To someone who ...
Andy Biskin Quartet: Early American: The Melodies of Stephen Foster
by George Kanzler
Stephen Foster was America's first pop songwriter, his music widely sung and played, as well as reproduced on music boxes (this album begins and ends with examples) in the last half of the 19th Century. But Foster is not the only uniquely American musician clarinetist Andy Biskin takes inspiration from in this idiosyncratic album. The spirit ...
Mark Sherman's "Family First" Now Available
LEADING JAZZ VIBRAPHONIST-COMPOSER MARK SHERMAN DELIVERS LATEST CD FAMILY FIRST ON CITY HALL RECORDS “Sherman is one exceptional soloist and composer who has the language covered and uncoveredarriving on a lofty artistic plane." - Dr. Herb Wong, Jazz Educator's Journal “Sherman has a great sound and a nice songwriting touch." - James ...
