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Orquesta del tiempo perdido: Stille
by Vincenzo Roggero
Orquesta del tiempo perdido è nome un po' altisonante, un po' nostalgico, un po' provocatorio, dietro al quale si cela la mente visionaria di Jeroen Kimman (già Brown vs. Brown), qui in veste di one-man-band (multistrumentista, produttore, ingegnere del suono), musicista tra i più originali della scena olandese. Certo in alcuni degli undici brani contenuti in ...
Charlie Porter: Charlie Porter
by Hrayr Attarian
Trumpeter and composer Charlie Porter exhibits his innovative spirit and his brilliant musicianship on his self-titled debut as a leader. Working with a rotating cast of Portland (Oregon) area musicians, Porter performs ten of his originals and one cover with a refreshingly unique style and captivating spontaneity. Similar in concept to tenor saxophonist Benny ...
Tom Abbs & Frequency Response: Hawthorne
by Karl Ackermann
Bassist and multi-instrumentalist Tom Abbs began his Frequency Response series in 2003 with Conscription (CIMP Records). The group--then a quartet--included tenor saxophonist Brian Settles and drummer Chad Taylor. Alto saxophonist Jason Candler, violinists Jean Cook and Jenna Barvitski are later additions to Frequency Response. On their long-awaited fourth album Hawthorne, Abbs again stands in as a ...
Michon Young: Love, Life, Experiences, Vol. 2: Driving to Purpose
by Jim Olin
While a number R&B artists are pretty good and content at making fun, engaging, and catchy music, others actually love to go the extra mile and take a different direction. These artists are hoping and willing to inspire the audience as well as sharing their personal views and opinions on many different topics, including relationships and ...
John Petrucelli: Presence
by Dustin Mallory
The sophomore effort from saxophonist John Petrucelli is a fresh and timely release of original compositions that were recorded in 2017 at the New Hazlett Theatre in Pittsburgh. The forthcoming album, titled Presence, pairs a jazz quintet with a string quartet as they perform John's majestic ten-movement suite. The album also features a guest appearance from ...
John McLaughlin: John McLaughlin and Jimmy Herring - Live in San Francisco
by Mike Jacobs
If you're a concert-goer of a certain age (and ilk), 2017 and early 2018 have proven fairly remarkable. Whether “last waltzes," overdue reunions or just plain old-school tenacity, many titans and heroes of the jazz-rock/prog era--such as Brand X, King Crimson, Soft Machine and The Dixie Dregs--have been making the rounds in some major markets and ...
FAT: #awesome
by John Kelman
While the appropriately titled #awesome represents Alex Machacek's third album in six years with his (similarly witty and self-effacingly monikered) FAT (Fabulous Austrian Trio), this trifecta of virtuosic Austrian musicians goes much further back. Both bassist Raphael Preuschl and drummer Herbert Pirker appeared on roughly half of the expat-Austrian/Los Angeles-based guitarist's acclaimed 2006 Abstract Logix debut, ...
Various Artists: Nicola Conte presents Cosmic Forest: The Spiritual Sounds of MPS
by Chris May
The description “spiritual jazz" means different things to different people. It was first applied to the predominantly African American style platformed by the Strata-East and Muse labels in the early and mid 1970s. The tag was not introduced until a decade later, and a better one would have been “cultural jazz," despite the tautology--for although every ...
Vince Bell: Ojo (Vince Bell)
by Chris Mosey
Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote: “Wine is bottled poetry," which--while witty--is not strictly true. Oscar Wilde said: “A poet can survive everything but a misprint," which is witty and true. But, getting to the real nitty gritty, Robert Frost came up with: “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found ...
Giuseppe Doronzo: Goya
by Karl Ackermann
Italian baritone saxophonist Giuseppe Doronzo is the type of restless artist that continually looks for new resources from which to expand on the language of his instrument. In recent years he has utilized a variety of format platforms as launching points. With the self-titled debut of the quintet Falga (Self-Produced, 2016) and the subsequent AVA Trio ...
