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Griffith Hiltz Trio: This Is What You Get...
by Dan McClenaghan
Canada's Griffith Hiltz Trio opens its second album, This Is What You Get..., with “Strawman," which sounds like a cross between a theme song for a Secret Agent Man movie and crunchy guitar-style, 1960s-era surf rock, featuring saxophonist Johnny Griffith's crisp melody lines and drummer Sly Juhas' shuffling rhythm. Then guitarist Nathan Hiltz twangs toward an ...
Kayhan Kalhor / Erdal Erzincan: Kula Kulluk Yakisir Mi
by John Kelman
When Kayhan Kalhor and Erdal Erzincan released The Wind (ECM, 2004), it was often shockingly beautiful evidence that jazz doesn't own the concept of improvisation--already a millennial concept when jazz first emerged in recognizable form at the turn of the 20th century. There are academics who now assert that “America's classical music" actually dates farther back, ...
Linda Oh: Sun Pictures
by Hrayr Attarian
Linda Oh arrived onto the jazz scene as a fully accomplished improviser with her introspective and free-flowing debut, Entry (Self Produced, 2010). On the follow-up, Initial Here(Greenleaf, 2012), she expanded her range, drawing upon both the western classical repertoire and eastern folk tradition, as well as experimenting with electric fusion-informed sounds. Oh's understated yet highly sophisticated ...
Dawn of Midi: Dysnomia
by Mark F. Turner
The script gets flipped in Dysnomia, where calculated syncopations are not generated from laptops or patched-in devices but produced by the post-minimalist acoustic trio Dawn of Midi, paying homage to electronica with 46 minutes of methodically composed music. But then again what is music? As defined by Merriam-Webster: it is a science or art of ordering ...
Rodger Fox Wellington Jazz Orchestra: The Capitol Sessions
by Jack Bowers
In July 2012, trombonist Rodger Fox brought his Wellington Jazz Orchestra all the way from New Zealand to Los Angeles to record at the famed Capitol Studios, thus confirming Fox's confidence in the ensemble--one doesn't undertake a trip like that accompanied by musicians whose talents are less than exemplary--while producing an album that is superlative from ...
Avi Avital: Bach
by C. Michael Bailey
Johann Sebastian Bach never composed for the mandolin. And that never stopped any mandolin players from appropriating Bach's work, especially for lute. Punch Brothers' Chris Thile recently released his take on the first half of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (Nonesuch, 2013), and is merely the latest non-classical artist to take on the great ...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: The Jimi Hendrix Experience: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
by Mike Perciaccante
Originally released in 2000 on Sony/Legacy, the Jimi Hendrix Experience box set featured 56 then-previously unreleased concert and studio recordings that spanned the late guitarist's career, covering the years 1966 through 1970. The box set has been hailed as one of the best multi-disc compilations ever released.The 2013 edition of the four-CD set has ...
Billy Bang: Da Bang!
by Glenn Astarita
Da Bang was recorded two months before violinist Billy Bang's battle with cancer ended in April, 2011. The album title is lifted from Bang's former FAB Trio band mate, drummer Barry Altschul. Indeed, Bang was an influential presence, partly due to his cutting-edge improvisational faculties. He was an artiste markedly comfortable in most any setting. On ...
Roberto Magris: Ready for Reed
by Jack Bowers
Italian-born Pianist Roberto Magris, never one to let labels stand in the way of tasteful and invigorating music, skates from funk to fusion, blues to bop and even ballads on this prismatic album with guest alto Sam Reed, a longtime trouper on the Philadelphia scene who cut his musical teeth with the likes of trumpeter Ted ...
radio.string.quartet.vienna: Posting Joe - Celebrating Weather Report - Live
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo avere fatto risplendere le composizioni della Mahavishnu Orchestra per alcuni anni, a partire dal 2006, anno di registrazione dell'album Celebrating the Mahavishnu Orchestra, il quartetto d'archi guidato da Bernie Mallinger, sposta la propria attenzione sulla musica di Joe Zawinul e dei Weather Report. Questo bel CD registrato dal vivo nel 2012 in occasione di varie ...
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