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Joe Sullivan: Whisky Jack Waltz

Read "Whisky Jack Waltz" reviewed by Geannine Reid

by Geannine Reid

Trumpeter, composer, arranger and educator Joe Sullivan grew up in a large Franco-Ontarian family in the Northern Ontario town of Timmins. As a youth, music was a part of daily life. Sullivan began his formal training on piano and at the age of fifteen he also started playing the trumpet. In his formative years, Sullivan led ...

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Darryl Way: Children Of The Cosmos

Read "Children Of The Cosmos" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Curved Air was a pivotal progressive rock band during its launch in the late 60s and is still going strong, featuring the inimitable vocals of original member, Sonja Kristina. While not part of the current lineup of Curved Air, classically trained founding member, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Darryl Way became a guiding light and pacesetter, as Children ...

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Jo-Yu Chen: Stranger

Read "Stranger" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

The title of pianist Jo-Yu Chen's third album refers to strangers of two different sorts: those who were once strangers but became part of Chen's life, and those who took the reverse course. Chen notes that as a Taiwanese artist living in New York, she's often felt like a stranger herself. That may be the case, ...

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Pat Mastelotto / Tobias Ralph: ToPaRaMa

Read "ToPaRaMa" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner

Like the rhythm of blood flowing through the heart; the drum is the rhythmic pulse of music. Drummers Pat Mastelotto and Tobias Ralph collaboration in ToPaRaMa is an adrenaline-charged project that includes the two on drum kits, splashes of electronic sound-design and contributions from talented guests. Mastelotto and Ralph's combined resumes contain a striking list of ...

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Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage

Read "Maiden Voyage" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons

Over the past forty-nine years there's been no shortage of ink spilled extolling the musical virtues of Herbie Hancock's 1965 recording, Maiden Voyage. Featuring the great trumpet of Freddie Hubbard and the bracing tenor of George Coleman, the record is as good as any effort turned in by Hancock during that period. It's a record every ...

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Joel Harrison: Mother Stump

Read "Mother Stump" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Every so often, musicians feel an inner urge to return to their roots and test their acumen with newer techniques and perspectives. Here, guitarist Joel Harrison revitalizes his early persuasions in a trio format, with keyboardist Glenn Patscha appearing on several tracks. Recognized for his heterogeneous projects, including big band, world-jazz, progressive jazz and distinctive style ...

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Massimo De Mattia - Bruno Cesselli: Teatro Arrigoni - Concert Jazz Band

Read "Teatro Arrigoni - Concert Jazz Band" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Produzione originale 2013 del meritorio festival S. Vito Jazz (clicca qui per leggere la rencensione del concerto di Claudio Cojaniz all'ultima edizione della rassegna), questo lavoro della premiata ditta Massimo De Mattia & Bruno Cesselli, intitolato alla deliziosa sede del festival stesso--il settecentesco Teatro Arrigoni recuperato all'uso sociale solo nel 2006--, presenta innumerevoli elementi di interesse, ...

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Andreas Dreier Trio: Poinciana

Read "Poinciana" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

There's no doubt when the soft tapping of drums announces a beat as light as lovers dancing through a summer night. This is the signature of one of the greatest cover versions of all time. Or rather, this is the watermark of a cover made into a new composition. Pianist Ahmad Jamal's trio now virtually owns ...

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David Ambrosio: Gone

Read "Gone" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

In many ways, bassist David Ambrosio can track his adult life and his musical relationships by his back-and-forth moves between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Ambrosio has called each borough home on more than one occasion over the past few decades, observing the key differences between each scene from the inside. He doesn't discriminate when it comes to ...

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First Take Trio: Recollections

Read "Recollections" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

When Michael Anthony left home in the late 1950s for the bright lights of Hollywood, one of the resident artists who took him under his wing was fellow guitarist Howard Roberts, already established as one of the film and television industry's top studio musicians as well as an esteemed jazz virtuoso whose work with the Chico ...


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