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Avery Sharpe: Dragon Fly
by AAJ Staff
Listening to Dragon Fly is an exercise in frustration, plain and simple. Avery Sharpe's trio outing with guests, coming on the heels of his warm three-part Extended Family series, promises to be an engaging trip through varied styles and moods--but it would be immeasurably better if he could back off now and then, quit doubling lines, ...
Avery Sharpe: Dragon Fly
by John Kelman
Best-known for his longstanding relationship with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Avery Sharpe has released three albums to date that feature him mixing it up with a sounds ranging from gospel/groove to straight-ahead. But while he has made his name in Tyner's piano trio format, Dragon Fly is the first time Sharpe has explored that configuration for ...
Jim Cifelli: Groove Station
by John Kelman
With three highly-acclaimed nonet albums to his name, trumpeter Jim Cifelli switches gears for his fourth album, the aptly-titled Groove Station. While soul and R&B grooves suffuse the disc, there is no doubt that Cifelli and his sextet come from a jazz sensibility. With a collective résumé that includes work with Wilson Pickett, Spencer Davis, James ...
Jerry Granelli: Sandhills Reunion
by Dan McClenaghan
Like rocker Bruce Springsten with his Nebraska or author Annie Proulx with her two volumes of Wyoming stories, Jerry Granelli's Sandhill Reunion --where his band accompanies Rinde Eckert's words--evokes the American experience in the prairie heartland, placing poetic viginettes of small experience under a powerful microscope on a set of of jazz-backed prose poems that explore ...
Jerry Granelli/Words by Rinde Eckert: Sandhills Reunion
by John Kelman
In these days of rap-informed everything , the combination of spoken word and jazz is nothing new. Mike Ladd's Negrophilia - The Album (Thirsty Ear, '05), for example, seamlessly blends poetry with electronica-inflected free ideas. But rap has a certain cadence that differs from the less direct rhythms associated with the spoken word of, say, the ...
Jim Cifelli: Groove Station
by Dan McClenaghan
The funk/groove sound: it seems like you shouldn't have to say too much about it. It's tight, in the pocket; it's good time music, not falling into the “cerebral listening" category; done well, it's a hell of a lot of fun...It's done exceptionally well on Groove Station , where trumpeter Jim Cifelli tries on ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra: Blueprint
by Jim Santella
With her sixteen-piece New York “West" orchestra, Satoko Fujii explodes with a free spirit and unleashed emotions. Her all-star unit of improvising artists operates cohesively in interpreting adventures for which she determines the mood. The result is a program that ranges from intense and dramatic imagery to contemporary celebrations and placid landscapes. Fujii leads ...
Grachan Moncur III Octet: Exploration
by Jerry D'Souza
It is a crying shame that some of the best jazz musicians have to languish in obscurity. There are many reasons, but a review is not necessarily the place to go into them. Suffice to say that it is a moment worth cherishing when a stalwart comes in from out of the beyond to make his ...
Bill Frisell: Richter 858
by Mark Corroto
Commissioned to create music for a book project on the German painter Gerhard Richter, guitarist Bill Frisell opened his book of guitar techniques to enhance the painter's art. Given instructions and eight Richter images, Frisell composed pieces for the 858 Strings Trio of Jenny Scheinman, Eyvind Kang, and Hank Roberts, a unit which can ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra: Blueprint
by Jerry D'Souza
Ideas flow by the brimful for Satoko Fujii. If her spate of recordings is not enough evidence, then take a look at the bands she heads. There's the Orchestra East and the Orchestra West (divided between Japan and the USA), the trio with Jim Black and Mark Dresser, her Quartet, and her solo work. You get ...
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