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Neal Black & Larry Garner: Guilty Saints
by Chris Mosey
They're calling him the new king of the Voodoo blues. Unlike the old king, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Neal Black is white. He's from Texas and plays high voltage boogie guitar but has also studied under jazz giants Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel. Perhaps his best known song to date is “Let Jesus or Johnny Walker take ...
Ryan Keberle & Catharsis: Ryan Keberle & Catharsis: Azul Infinito
by Jakob Baekgaard
By now, trombonist and composer Ryan Keberle has established himself as a solid name on the jazz scene, but like all musicians, he did not come out of nowhere. On the album Azul Infinito, he pays homage to South American music and the composers that have meant something to him. The opener “I ...
Sal Lozano: Everything's Gonna Be Great
by Jack Bowers
If you're looking for a superlative one-man saxophone section, better call Sal (Lozano). And if you need some dazzling charts to make that section shine, better phone Tom (Kubis, that is). After spending years as one of Southern California's leading sidemen, Sal Lozano has at last recorded an album under his own name, one on which ...
Pascal Battus / Dafne Vicente-Sandoval: Pascal Battus / Dafne Vicente-Sandoval
by John Eyles
This double CD features the duo of Pascal Battus on rotating surfaces, styrofoam, paper, plastic objects and microphones plus Dafne Vicente-Sandoval on bassoon, microphones and mixing board. Although the two have not recorded together previously, they have each recorded before for Potlatch, in duos that were similar enough to be seen as preparation for this meeting, ...
Scott Hamilton / Rein de Graaff Trio: Live at the JazzRoom
by Jack Bowers
Scott Hamilton, whose enviable career has taken him around the world many times and ensured his appearance on more than a hundred notable recordings, is a throwback to an era in which tenor saxophonists could be readily identified by their sound, phrasing and singular approach to improvising. Not that Hamilton can be; he has instead incorporated ...
Michele Polga: Little Magic
by Luigi Sforza
In quest'ultima fatica discografica Michele Polga insieme alle sue pronunciate qualità di tenor sassofonista conferma ampiamente il suo appassionato orientamento estetico -già dichiarato nei precedenti lavori a suo nome. Dotato di notevole tecnica strumentale, di senso instancabile per la melodia e di un'ampia capacità di sintetizzare in forma organica e unica un ampio patrimonio storico legato ...
Ryan Carraher: Vocturnal
by Budd Kopman
Guitarist and composer Ryan Carraher is blessed with an enormous technique and a fertile and inventive musical mind (having received the Achievement Award from the guitar department of the Berklee College of Music), which is doubly impressive in one so young. Carraher states that the compositions in Vocturnal “are heavily inspired by the classical ...
William Parker, Lisa Sokolov, Cooper-Moore: Stan's Hat Flapping in the Wind
by Alberto Bazzurro
Album decisamente anomalo, quest'ultimo di William Parker, che vi ricopre il ruolo di puro e semplice autore (parole e musica, peraltro) di songs affidati a una forma quasi atavica, ancestrale, come quella che vede una voce accompagnata solo da un pianoforte. Del sessantaquattrenne bassista newyorchese ritroviamo peraltro diverse stimmate, in questo pur inusuale ...
Mike Price Jazz Quintet: In Tokyo, Japan
by Jack Bowers
Although the name Mike Price may be unfamiliar to you--unless, that is, you happen to live in or near Los Angeles or Tokyo--he has been around the block more than a few times, forging a lengthy and successful career that goes back to his time as lead trumpet for the Buddy Rich band and orchestras led ...
Yana Bibb: Afternoon In Paris
by Chris Mosey
In the beginning: Leon Bibb. Born 1922, he sang at the first ever Newport Folk Festival, was a friend of Paul Robeson and, like him, blacklisted in the McCarthy era for his left-wing sympathies. After fighting segregation in Mississippi in the 1960s, he went to live in Canada. Next came his son, Eric ...
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