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Judy Wexler: Under A Painted Sky
by Dan Bilawsky
Few singers would dare dive into music associated with Johnny Mathis, Carmen McRae, Abbey Lincoln and the 1962 film, The Music Man, on the same album; even fewer would be able to pull it off as vocalist Judy Wexler does on Under A Painted Sky. Wexler possesses a voice for the ages, and puts it to ...
Veryan Weston / Leo Svirsky / The Vociferous Choir: Different Tessellations
by Raul d'Gama Rose
In the realm of tessellations--the juxtaposition of elements into a coherent pattern--the only ones that could match Different Tessellations in terms of intrigue and seduction--composed by Veryan Weston and recorded here by prodigiously talented pianist Leo Svirsky and the Vociferous Choir--is Maurits C. Escher's Circle Limit III. The Escher is visual art at its finest, a ...
Potsa Lotsa: The Complete Works Of Eric Dolphy
by Keith Henry Brown
The great multi-instrumentalist/composer Eric Dolphy spent almost as much time being criticized in his career as he was praised. Remarkably, there was dissension in some critical circles at the time about his abilities as a performer and writer. In the infamous cover story in the April 1962 issue of Downbeat Magazine, Dolphy and ...
Conure: Strings, Locations
by Glenn Astarita
Strings, Locations is the work of electronics ace Mark Wilson's fiendish mind. He uses field recordings, keys and other implements to design a doomsday scenario that is most assuredly not classified in the ambient-electronica or New Age categories. Wilson's head-banging approach constitutes a source of interest. It's all in good fun, however, as he ...
Antoine Dufour: Sound Pictures
by C. Michael Bailey
Superhuman acoustic guitar playing was de rigueur for the New Age music of the 1980s and '90s, though personality often suffered at the expense of technical ability. Only a few artists:, such as Leo Kottke and Michael Hedges were able to float as cream to the top of a pile of wannabes, all who could play ...
Steve Lacy Five: Blinks...Zurich Live 1983
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Few musicians bestrode the world of the avant-garde like the proverbial Colossus, but Steve Lacy did. He played with the heart of a giant and a soul in which a flame was lit in the '50s, when he began his career playing Dixieland music. By the time he made his presence felt in the avant-garde playing ...
Lol Coxhill / Alex Ward: Old Sights, New Sounds
by John Eyles
Recorded at Incus HQ, London, in October 2010, this duo is a delight that should refresh even the most jaded ears. Lol Coxhill and Alex Ward are both veteran improvisers and regular participants on the London scene, so it was inevitable that they would eventually play together as a duo. As evidenced below by YouTube, that ...
Jose Rizo's Mongorama: Jose' Rizzo's Mongorama
by Greg Simmons
Mongorama. The name just sounds like fun--and this is a fun record, despite being crafted by musicians who take the Afro-Cuban music and legacy of Mongo Santamaria very seriously. Organized by jazz DJ Jose Rizzo, the band highlights a mix of Santamaria classics, blended with newer compositions in the same tradition. Any album that ...
Natacha Atlas: Mounqaliba
by Chris M. Slawecki
Vocalist Natacha Atlas seems to embody the modern musical millennia: She was born in Brussels and raised in one of its Moroccan suburbs; her compositions and singing reach into and crisscross storied European and Arabic musical traditions. Primarily co-written and performed with multi-instrumentalist Samy Bishai along with pianist Zoe Rahman, a chamber orchestra and 20-piece Turkish ...
Tedeschi Trucks Band: Revelator
by C. Michael Bailey
The Derek Trucks Band has grown into a finely-tuned big band, adding the guitarist's wife, singer Susan Tedeschi, to the masthead and front lineup, resulting in a fresh sound that eschews every blues and soul cliché that could be feared from such an ambitious project. All of the principles bring with them a loam of experience ...
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