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Amy Black: The Muscle Shoals Sessions
by James Nadal
Yes, you can go home again. That place where two generations before you have deep roots, and nostalgia floods the emotions. Vocalist Amy Black is from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, so if anyone has the birthright to walk into legendary Fame Studios to record an album, it's her. On The Muscle Shoals Sessions, she booked the studio, ...
Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet: Desire
by Ian Patterson
It's been three years since the Yuri Honing Quartet's True (Challenge Records, 2012), a sumptuous all-acoustic affair that was in stark contrast to the powerful, duel electric guitar-driven Wired Paradise. That particular group hasn't recorded since White Tiger (Jazz in Motion Records, 2010), though the retrospective compilation North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts (Bob City, 2013) captured ...
Isaac Darche: Team & Variations
by Dan Bilawsky
While guitarist Isaac Darche is clearly a fan of punny titles, his music is no joke. On Team & Variations--the follow-up to the California-bred, New York-based guitarist's debut, Boom-Baptism (BJU Records, 2012)--Darche digs deep, delivering five stimulating originals and three classics that focus in on his dexterous finger work, tight arrangements, and kinship with his contemporaries. ...
Danielle Reich: While We Were Dancing
by C. Michael Bailey
The Austin Texas satellite of the Houston Jazz Mafia, vocalist Danielle Reich, follows her debut recording This Year's Kisses (Self Produced, 2011) with a stripped-down recital right out of the heart of the Great American Songbook. Reich pares down her piano-led standard hard bop quintet to a guitar-driven (capably played by Mitch Watkins) trio. “Less is ...
Hugo Fernandez: Cosmogram
by Edward Blanco
Mexican-born Hugo Fernandez is a modern jazz guitarist who follows up his well-received debut album Origenes (CDbaby, 2012) with the new modern-styled Cosmogram featuring eight sophisticated original compositions in a generally warm-natured set of light and engaging modern jazz. A graduate of the prestigious Berklee School of Music in Boston, Fernandez decided to move to Madrid, ...
Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Galactic Parables: Volume 1
by AAJ Staff
Quello di Galactic Parables: Volume 1 è uno dei progetti più ambiziosi del “cosmo" (il termine è quanto mai pertinente) di Rob Mazurek. Opera complessa e sfaccettata di argomento fantascientifico (i testi sono del poliedrico Damon Locks dei The Eternals), questo lavoro consente alla Exploding Star Orchestra di dare spazio a tutte le sue ...
SpokFrevo Orquestra: Ninho de Vespa
by Angelo Leonardi
Elettrizzante. Il Frevo è un genere musicale e una danza nata alla fine dell'800 a Pernambuco nel Nordeste del Brasile e associata a quel carnevale. È caratterizzato da un ritmo frenetico, quasi parossistico, e nella metà del secolo scorso s'è imposto al carnevale di Rio, diventando il ritmo tradizionale dell'intera Nazione. Un po' com'è successo al ...
Joe McPhee: Solos : The Lost Tapes (1980 – 1981 – 1984)
by Mark Corroto
The young cats (players thirty years his junior) know Joe. Players who have immersed themselves in free improvisation, like Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson, Peter Evans, Martin Kuchen, and Mikołaj Trzaska, learned the possibilities of creating a new music from, not thin air, but from listening. They model their approach after Joe McPhee. Born in ...
Laurent Coq / Walter Smith III: The LaFayette Suite
by Mark F. Turner
In The LaFayette Suite, two exceptional musicians--French pianist Laurent Coq and American saxophonist Walter Smith III--continue the spirit of collaboration which interestingly enough began around 1777 between French nobleman / military officer Marquis de Lafayette and President George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. In a suite funded by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the ...
Angelo Santelli: Angelo Santelli
by C. Michael Bailey
Floridian Angelo Santelli's debut eponymous recording is a richly mixed bag. An accomplished slide guitarist with associations within the Allman Brothers Band family, Santelli might be taken for granted as a jam-band blues knock off. This is before a first listen something else altogether. On nine disparate original compositions, Santelli reveals a much broader and deeper ...
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