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The Stryker/Slagle Band Expanded: Routes
by Mark Sullivan
Guitarist Dave Stryker and saxophonist Steve Slagle met the night Stryker auditioned for organist Jack McDuff when he first moved to New York, and they have co-led the Stryker/Slagle Band since 2003. Until now the group has always been a quartet (with occasional guests), but with the addition of keyboards and three horns it is definitely ...
Rolf Sturm: Young
by Jack Bowers
Albums featuring a lone instrument are often the most difficult to review, especially if the writer is not a musician. After commenting on technique, sound and musical selections, what more is there to say? It is even more troublesome when said instrument is a guitar, as there are legions of virtuosos on the scene today, both ...
Naomi Moon Siegel: Shoebox View
by Dan McClenaghan
Trombonist Naomi Moon Siegel represents the new breed of jazz artists, the ones who have to make it all happen themselves. In lieu of an established record label, the words “Self Produced" say it all. And while the ability and relative affordability of putting out a CD that is self funded--or fan direct funded--certainly eliminates a ...
Guido Santoni Trio: Fit to Fly
by Neri Pollastri
Cinque anni dopo l'esordio su Artesuono con Inside a Dream, esce il secondo lavoro del trio del pianista marchigiano Guido Santoni, affiancato da Danilo Gallo al contrabbasso e U. T. Gandhi alla batteria. Le nove tracce in programma, tutte della penna del leader, sono caratterizzate da uno stile astratto ed etereo, che talvolta richiama ...
C.B.G: Les Indignés
by Karl Ackermann
The acronym “CBG" is the proxy for the Celano/Baggiani Group. The improvisational group is based in the Netherlands and has been active for more than ten years. Guitarist Guillermo Celano and drummer Marcos Baggiani have been the mainstays in a rotation that has experienced a number of personnel changes as they have veered between quartet and ...
Ron Jackson: Akustik InventYours
by Tyran Grillo
Guitarist Ron Jackson, known as a composer, performer, and educator in a wide range of contexts in his present headquarters of New York City, has enjoyed an adventurous life. Born in the Philippines to a military family, he moved many times as a child, music being his constant companion. Though now known for his work as ...
Benjamin Duboc/Julien Desprez/Julien Loutelier: Tournesol
by Mark Corroto
The free improvisations by Benjamin Duboc, Julien Desprez, and Julien Loutelier on Tournesol or “Sunflower" bring to mind the lyrics to “Love Dance," a minor crossover hit for George Benson in 1980: “From too much talk to loving touches/Love touches when pure emotion takes the moment/We take the chance/Turn up the quiet, love wants to dance." ...
Victor Rendón & Bronx Conexión Latin-Jazz Big Band: True Flight
by James Nadal
Latin music has been popular in New York City since the beginning of the twentieth century. The post-war migration of Hispanics into Spanish Harlem and the Bronx brought about a major cultural shift in the area, music being an essential element, and with that came a plethora of clubs and dance venues. The orchestras of Machito, ...
Miles Davis: Miles Davis
by Maurizio Zerbo
Poco più di trenta minuti di musica compongono questo CD antologico della DeAgostini, dedicato alla non certo corposa produzione davisiana per la Blue Note. Quasi tutte le tracce sono tratte da Miles Davis vol. 1, registrato tra il 1952 e il 1954. I rimanenti due brani si ritrovavano originariamente in Miles Davis vol. 2 e Something ...
Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2015
by Jack Bowers
In 1975, Howard University, a bulwark of higher education in our nation's capital since 1867, formed its first Jazz Ensemble and named a young trumpeter / educator, Fred Irby III, as director. One year later, Irby ushered the ensemble into a recording studio to verify its prowess, a tradition that has continued uninterrupted for forty years. ...
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