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Joe Sullivan: Whisky Jack Waltz
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 ...
Darryl Way: Children Of The Cosmos
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 ...
Jo-Yu Chen: Stranger
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, ...
Pat Mastelotto / Tobias Ralph: ToPaRaMa
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 ...
Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage
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 ...
Joel Harrison: Mother Stump
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 ...
Massimo De Mattia - Bruno Cesselli: Teatro Arrigoni - Concert Jazz Band
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, ...
Andreas Dreier Trio: Poinciana
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 ...
David Ambrosio: Gone
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 ...
First Take Trio: Recollections
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 ...

