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Dave Sharp: Worlds
by Chris M. Slawecki
Detroit-based bassist Dave Sharp and the Secret 7 ensemble he leads have found acclaim for their expansive grasp of world music, including and especially jazz: Sharp has toured jazz clubs throughout Japan and studied jazz theory and music at the New College of California with bassist Herbie Lewis, who nailed down rock-solid rhythmic bottoms for soul-jazz ...
Worlds Apart, Whirled Together
by Chris M. Slawecki
BossaCucaNova Our Kind of Bossa Six Degrees 2014 Our Kind of Bossa celebrates fifteen fun years of BossaCucaNova, one of Brazil's most adventurous contemporary ensembles (and was also timed to coincide with Brazil hosting the 2014 soccer World Cup). These eleven tracks fuse the electro-bossa nova for which the group ...
Doc Stewart and Big Band Resuscitation: Code Blue!
by Edward Blanco
Those who subscribe to the notion that big band music is a dying musical art form, are obviously unaware of Chris “Doc “ Stewart and his star-studded Resuscitation big band that have just given the genre a shot in the arm, a jolt of electricity and some life-saving musical medicine with the amazing Code Blue! An ...
Jeff Hackworth: Soul To Go!
by Edward Blanco
His fifth album as leader and follow up to the critically acclaimed Night Owl (Big Bridge Music, 2011), Jeff Hackworth's Soul To Go! offers a brash new statement packed with bop, blues and soulful renditions of jazz classics. A New York-based saxophonist of note, and like many a great sax men--Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley ...
Tenor Legend Ernie Watts Euorpean Quartet Play Dublin's Sugar Club, May 8
The Sugar Club in Dublin braces itself for the arrival on the 8th May of one of jazz’s greatest tenor saxophonists – Ernie Watts. Leading his European quartet of fifteen years standing, Watts, pianist Christof Saenger, bassist Rudi Engel and drummer Heinrich Koebberling will be playing music from Watts’ new CD, A Simple Truth (Flying Dolphin ...
Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3
by Maurizio Comandini
Finalmente la Sony Legacy pubblica ufficialmente e integralmente i quattro concerti del gruppo di Miles Davis al Fillmore East, mitico teatro posto più o meno all'incrocio fra la Sesta Strada Est e la Seconda Avenue a New York, nell'East Village. Era la metà del mese di giugno del 1970, il capolavoro Bitches Brew era stato pubblicato ...
MoFrancesco Quintetto: Maloca
by Ian Patterson
Italian bassist Francesco Valente's fascination with the culture of Brazil inspired the title of this album. A moloca is an Amazonian ancestral longhouse and a habitat for sharing knowledge, stories and music. In this case, the communal home is his adopted Lisbon and Valente's family is a multi-national quintet whose musical ancestors have bequeathed the jazz ...
Four From The Posi-Tone Pile
by Dan Bilawsky
Some labels release a few records a year; some put out a record every month or two; and then there are those, like the Los Angeles-based Posi-Tone Records, that prefer to push even more music through the pipeline. As 2014 came into being, Posi-Tone began an ambitious release schedule, putting out a new ...
Music Matters slows it down
by Greg Simmons
Music Matters is pulling a fast one. For the past several years they've been hawking a series of reissues of the classic Blue Note Records catalogue of the 1950s and 60s. The defining features of this series have been that they've all been re-mastered from the original session tapes by mastering guru Kevin Gray and, in ...
In Memoriam: Dr. Yusef Abdul Lateef
by John Wesley Reed Jr.
Yusef Lateef defined music far from Western concepts while presenting cross-cultural fusions. His life was committed as a premier jazz saxophonist, flutist, and many woodwinds entering crossing musical boundaries. This journey ended on Monday, December 23, 2013 at his home in Shutesbury, Amherst, Massachusetts. Dr. Lateef was 93 years old. Dr. Lateef's distinctive sound ...
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