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Lyn Stanley: Interludes
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist/producer Lyn Stanley has established herself as a foremost stylist of the Great American Songbook. That is no mean feat. The sheer amount of vocal music made each year around the Songbook is impressive. It is too bad that the quality of a great many of those recordings is not equally impressive. Stanley's two previous recordings, ...
Phil Haynes: Sanctuary
by Budd Kopman
Many musicians, at some point, acknowledge a desire that has been building within them --to create music not for anyone else, but for themselves, and, ultimately, by themselves. Obviously, this is easy for pianists, and more difficult for single-line instruments, but now much more common. Drummer/percussionists, especially in jazz, have different problems. First, of ...
Nancy Lane: Let Me Love You
by Geannine Reid
Nancy Lane's vocal quality looms large in the crowded world of jazz vocalists, and with her recording, Let Me Love You, her melodic delivery will attest that she belongs to a small subset within the field. Lane is accompanied by a talented core of musicians that perfectly support her formidable skills to deliver a ...
Oddjob: Folk
by Dan McClenaghan
In the mood for a snifter of schnapps, a kick back in the easy chair and a night soaking in some Swedish folk songs, tunes centered, for the most part, around the tradition of herding and goat calling? Aside from the schnapps part, that may seem like a lame idea, but the very progressive Swedish jazz/rock ...
Food: This Is Not a Miracle
by Karl Ackermann
Since the formation of Food, more than a dozen years ago, the duo at its core, saxophonist Iain Ballamy and drummer Thomas Strønen, have remained the nucleus of a small but impressive coop of players who have added their unique creative ideas to an already out-of-the-mainstream entity whose philosophy has been to stun without their lasers ...
Ernie Krivda: Requiem For A Jazz Lady
by Bruce Lindsay
It's been over 40 years since tenor saxophonist Ernie Krivda first appeared on record. In a career going back six decades he's released around 30 albums under his own name and appeared on many more. His tenor sound, often plaintive, is distinctive and affecting. On Requiem For A Jazz Lady the tenor is given a quartet ...
Bill Payne/Eva Lindal/Carol Liebowitz: Payne Lindal Liebowitz
by Hrayr Attarian
Clarinetist Bill Payne is a bold but sensitive improviser from the pianist Lennie Tristano's school of musical thought. Violinist Eva Lindal has a solid footing in the Avant-Garde western classical tradition. Carol Liebowitz is an urbane and dramatic pianist who creates unique blends of jazz and free improvisation. All three have long associations with pianist Connie ...
Billy Gibbons and the BFGs: Perfectamundo
by C. Michael Bailey
We are one hell of a long way from 1971 and ZZ Top's First Album (London). That music was as purely organic chewing tobacco and loose as the dust on the bank of the Rio Grande. Well, all that ended in 1976 with Tejas (London), which was the beginning of the band's ascendency to pop stardom ...
Ermes Pirlo, Paolo Biasi, Emanuele Maniscalco: Bellow's Training
by Neri Pollastri
È un disco sorprendente questo Bellow's Training, e lo è fin dalla atipicità della formazione, un trio composto da fisarmonica, basso elettrico e batteria. Già questo evidenzia l'intenzione di Ermes Pirlo di esporre il proprio strumento a situazioni che, nonostante l'impiego ormai molto ampio della fisarmonica nell'ambito del jazz, non sono per esso molto frequenti.
Do Tell: Hotend - Do Tell Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill
by Alberto Bazzurro
Una delle prime cose che colpiscono, prendendo in mano questo CD dedicato al songbook di Julius Hemphill, è la brevità quasi lacyana dei titoli. Mettendo poi l'oggetto nel lettore (ma anche già scorrendo la formazione), ecco che un secondo elemento salta all'occhio (o all'orecchio): il fatto che un repertorio squisitamente sassofonistico sia interamente riletto da un ...
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