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Chris McNulty: Dance Delicioso

Read "Dance Delicioso" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone

Singer Chris McNulty has logged quite a few miles and years since she made the move to relocate to New York from her native Australia in the late 1980s. Dance Delicioso is her fifth effort. The album begins with an atypical performance of the Annie Lennox composition “Primitive," and her delivery here is in the manner ...

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Dylan van der Schyff: The Definition of A Toy

Read "The Definition of A Toy" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

The title tune for The Definition of A Toy was written specifically for the album by reed multi-instrumentalist Michael Moore, who was inspired by an ad for a toy. The words that grabbed his attention were specifications that it be “open-ended, “interactive, and “encourage creativity. The members of this group inject those descriptives into every tune ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Avram Fefer & Bobby Few: Kindred Spirits & Heavenly Places

Read "Avram Fefer & Bobby Few: Kindred Spirits & Heavenly Places" reviewed by Andrew Velez

by Andrew Velez

Departing from their regular policy of presenting new faces, Jazz Gallery recently reunited keyboard master Bobby Few with the boundless energy of reedman Avram Fefer for an evening celebrating a pair of new duo releases. When they first began playing together in Paris in the early '90s, Few was best-known as a member of the Center ...

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Peter Epstein/Brad Shepik/Matt Kilmer: Lingua Franca

Read "Lingua Franca" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

The term “world music gets bantered around frequently these days, referring (among many other things) to anyone who integrates any kind of ethnic folk music into a larger musical concept. But there's really nothing new about the idea of cross-cultural blends from a jazz perspective. Even before groups like Oregon, guitarist John McLaughlin's Shakti, and ECM ...

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Peter Epstein/Brad Shepik/Matt Kilmer: Lingua Franca

Read "Lingua Franca" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

One of the prime factors in assembling this project was that each musician should represent a distinct musical culture. Peter Epstein (saxophones), Brad Shepik (guitar), and Matt Kilmer (percussion) home in and open the doors to a world of fascinating rhythms. Jazz has often moved across various lands in search of its muse. This ...

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Will Bernard Trio: Directions to My House

Read "Directions to My House" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Thanks to artists like Bill Frisell and Nels Cline, the definition of jazz guitar has broadened so far that heated discussions are a regular occurrence, on and off the web. Certainly if an album like Frisell's Nashville can win the Downbeat critic's poll for best jazz album, we're witnessing a significant shift that allows for considerably ...

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Gene Bertoncini: Quiet Now

Read "Quiet Now" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Precious few guitarists In the history of recorded jazz have concentrated exclusively on the nylon-string acoustic guitar. Players like Ralph Towner and Lenny Breau--two more disparate artists one would be hard-pressed to find--have certainly made the instrument one of their primary focuses, but they've also used others to broaden their sonic palette. Still, there are precedents, ...

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Peter Epstein/Brad Shepik/Matt Kilmer: Lingua Franca

Read "Lingua Franca" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

The music we call jazz--a broad and ill-defined category--embraces a wide array of sounds. Under the jazz umbrella you find bebop to electronica, ambient to power trio, turntablism to tablas, ferocious saxophones to Balkan folk music. That's a big part of the music's appeal. The art form is not static; it evolves and incorporates everything it ...

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Adam Rogers: Apparitions

Read "Apparitions" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner

Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Monder, and Liberty Ellman are just a few of the notable modern day guitarists who are making own their marks in technique and ability. Adam Rogers also falls into this category, but the question remains for any artist: how does one distinguish his own identity? Rogers' new release may not sound altogether different ...

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Bud Shank Quartet with Phil Woods: Bouncing with Bud & Phil - Live at Yoshi's

Read "Bouncing with Bud & Phil - Live at Yoshi's" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

When you think of saxophone summits, the tenor is usually what comes to mind--for example, Dexter Gordon with Gene Ammons, or more recently, David Liebman with Ellery Eskelin. Far rarer is the pairing of two alto players, but the teaming of septuagenarians Bud Shank and Phil Woods on Bouncing with Bud & Phil feels like a ...


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