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Kat Parra: Las Aventuras de Pasion!
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
A collaboration between vocalist Kat Parra and trombonist/arranger Wayne Wallace would be reason enough to celebrate ¡Las Aventuras de Pasión!, the duo favoring a slightly more languorous than usual Afro-Cuban jazz, richly played and brightly sung. Wallace has mined this vein on a string of remarkably good records over the last decade or so. Highlights of ...
David Bixler: The Nearest Exit May Be Inside Your Head
by Dan Bilawsky
Saxophonist David Bixler's ties to pianist Arturo O'Farrill have had positive and negative consequences. The positives are a raised profile, a fairly steady gig for twelve years and counting, and the opportunity to paint atop brilliantly arranged Latin platforms of varying shapes, colors and sizes for audiences around the world. So, one might wonder, what could ...
Sylvain Leroux: Quatuor Creole
by Hrayr Attarian
Flautist Sylvain Leroux's debut, Quatuor Créole, is an enchanting mélange of Guinean sounds, French influences and jazz inflections. In that aspect it is essentially Creole, but not necessary a work of New Orleanian or Haitian folkloric music. Leroux plays the tambin, a West African reed flute, and a dozon ngoni, a lute from ...
Mike Stern: All Over The Place
by Glenn Astarita
Guitarist Mike Stern projected a stylish, chops-heavy impression on the general jazz populous during his auspicious entry into the circuit, supporting jazz-fusion era Miles Davis. Indeed, one of the more distinctive guitarists spanning several decades, the artist enlists a who's who of current bass greats amid appearances by longtime associates, trumpeter Randy Brecker and former Davis ...
Operation ID: Legs
by Dave Wayne
The cover art for Operation ID's debut CD recalls the work of Raymond Pettibon. whose indelible images burst forth from the covers of LPs by Black Flag, Minutemen, and Saccharine Trust on the iconoclastic SST label, back in the 1980s. Though it's directed toward a different end result, the music on Legs has a relentless energy ...
Tommy Cecil and Bill Mays: Side by Side: Sondheim Duos
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
This is a brilliant collection of nine songs associated with composer Stephen Sondheim and delivered by the estimable pianist Bill Mays and excellent bassist Tommy Cecil. Cecil, who initiated and produced the project, is well-known in Washington, D.C., but his huge talent should bring him much wider attention. As for Mays, there's always the sense of ...
Agustí Fernández: El laberint de la memòria
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che Agustí Fernández, sotto quella scorza di improvvisatore duro e puro, nascondesse un lato “romantico," lo si era già intuito ai tempi di A Silent Dance, disco registrato in duo con Derek Bailey che racconta l'ultima esibizione del chitarrista di Sheffield prima della scomparsa (il giorno di Natale del 2005). Intuito soltanto perché il dubbio, più ...
Hakon Thelin: Light
by Eyal Hareuveni
The five compositions on Light define the musical language of Norwegian double bass master Håkon Thelin, known as a member of the new music trio Poing. Thelin calls his language “folk music for the double bass," following his mentor, the late Italian double bass master Stefano Scodanibbio, to whom this recording is dedicated. ...
Sylvia Herold and the Rhythm Bugs: The Spider and the Fly
by C. Michael Bailey
The Spider and the Fly is a novelty jazz disc in the best sense of the word. Guitarist Sylvia Herold and her Rhythm Bugs prove intent on archiving Swing era vocal harmonies using the songs of the period. This disc may readily be categorized in the same genre as Karen Johns & Company's Peach (Self Produced, ...
Kris Wanders Outfit: In Remebrance of the Human Race
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un musicista come l'olandese Kris Wanders - fra i promotori del free jazz in Europa e fra gli esponenti di quell'avanguardia che lavorava su progetti con titoli militanti come Requiem for Che Guevara di Fred Van Hove - non poteva lasciare da parte un paio di citazioni interessanti nelle note di copertina: “Totalitarian ideologists don't like ...
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