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Wilford Brimley With The Jeff Hamilton Trio: Wilford Brimley With The Jeff Hamilton Trio
by Dan Bilawsky
Acting and singing aren't mutually exclusive talents. The best singers, in fact, are natural born actors, inhabiting the stories set out for them in the songs that they sing. The opposite, however, doesn't always ring true; the best actors are not always natural born singers. In this day and age, the fame of the thespian has ...
Bill Hollis: Best of Bill Hollis
by Hrayr Attarian
Songwriter and pianist William Odell (Bill) Hollis passed away three years ago leaving behind a legacy of 175 original tunes. Best of Bill Hollis on the Blujazz label collects eight of these from two different sessions from 1983 and 1985. The former is recorded with a trio in Bristol, Pennsylvania and the latter with a quartet ...
Bryn Roberts: Fables
by Glenn Astarita
Born in Canada, pianist Bryn Roberts has enjoyed a prolific career as a session artist since moving to New York City in 2001. Snuggled within a modern mainstream vibe, his persuasive compositions pay homage to melodic content, often complemented by saxophonist Seamus Blake's burly delivery and fluid lines. Nonetheless, many of these works contain quite a ...
John Butcher, Thomas Lehn, John Tilbury: Exta
by John Eyles
The trio of saxophonist John Butcher, synthesiser player Thomas Lehn and pianist John Tilbury had a certain inevitability about it. Although they had not recorded together prior to this album, each of the three possible pairs had done so--Lehn and Tilbury when the Englishman recorded the extraordinary The Hands of Caravaggio (Erstwhile, 2002) with MIMEO of ...
Jeff Lorber Fusion: Hacienda
by Jeff Winbush
If the word “fusion" is a dirty word don't tell Jeff Lorber. In 1977, the Jeff Lorber Fusion made the scene and 36 years later there's a new incarnation of the band built around Lorber's keyboards, synths and occasional guitar, Jimmy Haslip on bass, and Eric Marienthal on saxophone. What's changed in nearly four decades later ...
Kjetil Husebø: Sources
by Eyal Hareuveni
Norwegian pianist and live sampling master Kjetil Husebø continues to develop his highly personal sonic language on his sophomore solo release after last year's solo debut Contradictions (Optical Substance, 2012). Husebø explores the grand piano as a sound source--acoustic or enhanced with live sampling and electronics. Both treatments of the piano sound organic even in its ...
Christy Doran's New Bag: Mesmerized
by Glenn Astarita
Celebrated Swiss guitarist Christy Doran assets pertain to his indefatigable creative sparks, evidenced by his work in jazz-rock, avant-garde jazz improvisation or when tackling world music. And from a fundamental shedding perspective, he could hold his own with most if not all of the present guitar heroes. New Bag was created in 1997, but ...
Alexis Cuadrado: A Lorca Soundscape
by AAJ Italy Staff
È un grande contrabassista, Alexis Cuadrado, già lo sapevamo. Che sia pure un bravo autore di canzoni è una piacevole sorpresa, anche se avere Garcia Lorca come paroliere non è cosa da poco. Quando tra 1929 e il 1930 l'enfant prodige della poesia iberica trascorse un periodo di studi presso la Columbia University (una sorta di ...
Aaron Parks: Arborescence
by AAJ Italy Staff
Arborescence è il debutto su ECM di Aaron Parks, ancor giovane pianista di Seattle venuto alla ribalta appena diciottenne nel sestetto di Terence Blanchard. Registrato in solitudine tra le rinascimentali architetture della Mechanics Hall (Worcester, Massachusetts), l'album coniuga l'acustica calda e avvolgente della storica sala concerto con la cura maniacale del suono di Mr. Eicher. Nel ...
Chris Thile: Chris Thile: Bach - Sonatas & Partitas
by C. Michael Bailey
At first blush, Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin played on the humble mandolin might be akin to making a Rusty Nail with single-malt scotch. A successful performance will require, at the very least, great virtuosity and vision: both of which Chris Thile possesses in impressive amounts. Banjoist Bela Fleck's superb 2001 recording Perpetual Motion ...
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