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Enrico Fazio 7tet - Villa Litta: Live in Milano
by Budd Kopman
The sky is pitch black. Spotlights are focused on seven musicians in front of a beautiful marble columned structure that towers over them. The outdoor concert starts and “Compagni di Merengue barrels out of the speakers. The group gets a huge, admittedly slightly cavernous, sound. The music is joyous, raucous, funny, and free within a clear ...
The Steve Hudson Quintet at 55 Bar
by Budd Kopman
Steve Hudson Quintet 55 Bar New York September 13, 2005 Having had the good fortune to review Outer Bridge by The Steve Hudson Quintet, I jumped at the chance to get to an early weekday show on September 13th at 55 Bar, located at, not surprisingly, 55 Christopher Street in ...
Ted Nash: La Espada De La Noche
by Budd Kopman
The first thing you notice on “A Night in Tunisia, which opens the wonderful La Espada De La Noche, is the accordion, which is not the most heavily used instrument in jazz, to say the least. The next thing is Ted Nash's beautiful, soft, caressing sax sound, followed by the “full band, which excludes a bassist ...
The Earl MacDonald 6: Echoes In The Night
by Budd Kopman
Sea Breeze is fine mainstream label that deserves recognition for putting out Echoes In The Night by the talented pianist Earl MacDonald and his new sextet. The music is nevertheless very ingratiating and delightful, if not startlingly original. Currently the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Connecticut, MacDonald has put together ...
Whitecage/Campbell/Fonda/Grassi: The Nu Band Live
by Budd Kopman
Live recordings are the next best thing to being there, and The Nu Band Live is a blistering “set made up of tracks from three different days (three out of the five performances come from the same day). The premise of the set is to present the period before, during, and after 9/11 in music. Needless ...
Alan Ferber: Scenes From An Exit Row
by Budd Kopman
Scenes from an Exit Row is a simply wonderful, unique mainstream recording and a perfect example of one the main problems in jazz today: that such high quality composing and arranging, not to mention the performances of the musicians involved, can easily get lost in the mass of new releases. There is such a surfeit of ...
Toots Thielemans: Do Not Leave Me
by Budd Kopman
That sound! That sound, which if you are old enough, you can still remember from the first time you heard it on Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years. The sound, and the man behind it, is the direct musical expression of this phrase from Thielemans' website: “I feel best in that little space between ...
Quarter Past: Smash No Flash
by Budd Kopman
How can you not have a soft spot for a group that attempts to define its compositional and improvisational esthetic by using a quote from Wittgenstein describing language (without, of course, explaining its meaning)? Clearly these are serious musicians, and they say, “In the music of Quarter Past the attentive listener will find that the compositional ...
Bernard Primeau: Liaisons
by Budd Kopman
Ah, the mainstream, that land of direct communication, the land of--dare it be said--swing. The mainstream is the place to visit when you want to feel good in an intelligent way: it's the place of smiling, foot tapping, knowing what is happening and why. Many mainstream recordings have a flat feeling, giving the ...
Dave Allen: Untold Stories
by Budd Kopman
Having attempted to play the guitar, I have a special place in my heart for guitarists, especially when in the aural presence of a master like Dave Allen, who brings to mind the ironic cartoon where one guitarist is watching another play and the bubble says, “I can do that. Many guitarists come ...
