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Dave Bryant: The Garden of Equilibria
by Dave Wayne
As one of the few keyboardists to perform and record with Ornette Coleman on a consistent basis, Dave Bryant stands alongside the likes of Geri Allen and Paul Bley. Yet, Bryant is not nearly as well-known. A Berklee graduate who studied privately with Coleman starting in 1983, Bryant's first appearance on record was with the trio ...
Nolatet: Dogs
by Doug Collette
The wit in the name of Nolatet finds a direct reflection in the music they make. Yet together as a four piece unit, keyboardist Brian Haas (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey), vibraphonist Mike Dillon (Critters Buggin,' Garage A Trois), bassist James Singleton (John Scofield, John Medeski) and drummer Johnny Vidacovich (Charlie Hunter, Robert Walter), create a seamless ...
Mats Gustafsson: Piano Mating
by Mark Corroto
Sure, saxophonist Mats Gustafsson is a rock star. A star in the same sense that Thurston Moore is a jazz artist or Merzbow generates ambient sounds. It's not so much that we would expect to see those three gentlemen receiving a Grammy Award, but that imitators of their styles will. Someday. In other words, innovators pioneer ...
Juhani Aaltonen & Iro Haarla: Kirkastus
by Hrayr Attarian
On the sublime Kirkastus saxophonist & flutist Juhani Aaltonen and pianist & harpist Iro Haarla engage in a series of intimate and impressionistic duets that brim with lyricism and spontaneity. A definite spirituality marks all ten of Haarla's compositions and, although various Psalms inspired most, the sacred nature of the music goes beyond strict religious boundaries ...
Peter Brötzmann: Münster Bern
by Mark Corroto
One indisputable fact, there cannot be enough Peter Brötzmann solo recordings in this world. Okay, for those that might disagree, there are a few choice solo Brötzmann sessions that are a must. Count Münster Bern in that category. The saxophonist, a leader of the 1960s European free jazz movement and a Fluxus artist had released several ...
Wendy Pedersen & Jim Gasior: We Two
by Edward Blanco
Long-time friends and two of South Florida's most enduring and favorite performers for a decade and more, vocalist Wendy Pedersen and pianist Jim Gasior present a session of light vocal jazz on We Two, their first solo album together offering new interpretations of the music from Rodgers & Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, the ...
Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Volume Two: Columbus, Ohio 10/31/1971
by Doug Collette
As Real Gone Music winds down its the four-year long reissue campaign devoted to the Grateful Dead's 'Dick's Picks' o the label presents one of the most distinctive titles in the archive series. recorded on Halloween night in 1971 at the Ohio Theatre in Columbus, Ohio. In a single cd, the only one of its kind ...
André Fernandes: Dream Keeper
by Roger Farbey
Born in Lisbon in 1976, guitarist André Fernandes is becoming a significant international player in jazz. He studied at the Lisbon Hot Club School and later at Berklee College of Music for two years in the late nineteen nineties. He has contributed to the projects of many internationally renowned jazz musicians including Julian Arguelles, Avishai Cohen, ...
Rhythm Future Quartet: Travels
by Dan McClenaghan
Gypsy jazz started, in terms of popular recognition, with guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli, and their lively and supremely swinging Qunintette du Hot Club du France. The group recorded hundreds of tunes in the thirties and and forties, released on the 78 rpm discs that were the recorded music mode at the time, and ...
James Bruce Moore: Soul’s Journey Home
by Jim Olin
James Bruce Moore is back to pluck his guitar as well as heartstrings with his new album, Soul's Journey Home. Fresh off the success of his debut album Lisbeth, Moore sounds renewed, and ready to share to the world more of his thoughts on life and love. In Soul's Journey Home, the Toronto-based singer/songwriter ...

