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Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band: Landmarks

Read "Landmarks" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
April 10, 2014

Drummer Brian Blade is a rhythmic force of nature that moves with both fire and finesse. He's contributed to numerous recordings and performances around the globe most notably as a member of the esteemed Wayne Shorter Quartet for over 10 years. Yet at the heart of Blade's own music lies a storyteller delivering tales of poignant ...

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Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Habitat

by Jack Bowers
April 10, 2014

Christine Jensen is one of the new breed of composer / arrangers who write for large ensembles on a grand scale, favoring themes that paint well-drawn pictures and tell evocative stories, most of which are based on personal experiences or particular sights or sounds that have lingered in their mind and led them to put pen ...

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Art Lillard's Heavenly Band: Reasons to Be Thankful

Read "Reasons to Be Thankful" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 10, 2014

Although drummer Art Lillard's Heavenly Band makes its home about as far from heaven as one could plausibly roam--New York City, to be precise--the music it produces on Reasons to Be Thankful (recorded in 2000 and released six years later) evokes at times an empyrean vibe, thanks in part to blissful arrangements by Lillard and guitarist ...

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Skogen: Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long

Read "Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
April 10, 2014

With their previous two Another Timbre releases, Ist Gefallen In Den Schnee (2012) and Rows (2013), Magnus Granberg's large international ensemble Skogen established themselves as purveyors of exquisitely-played spacious music, that transcends the composition-improvisation border and makes beguilingly beautiful listening. On the 2012 album, a nine-member version of the group played a one-hour-plus rendition of Granberg's ...

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Yolanda Duke: Te Llevo Bajo La Piel

Read "Te Llevo Bajo La Piel" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
April 10, 2014

Born in the Dominican Republic but raised in New York City, Yolanda Duke is no ordinary artist. Gifted with a powerful voice and a presence on the stage, Duke has earned the reputation as the “Queen of Latin Soul." On Te Llevo Bajo La Piel (I've Got You Under My Skin), Duke comes out swinging in ...

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Sonata Islands: Meets Mahler

Read "Meets Mahler" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
April 10, 2014

Non il Mahler di Uri Caine, o di altri che l'hanno rivisitato; non una rilettura, più o meno “traditrice," ma un tributo: ecco cosa ci riserva quest'ennesimo notevole album di Sonata Islands, un gruppo che, come si dice in questi casi, meriterebbe ben altra considerazione, ben altra attenzione, nel panorama del jazz italiano (e non).

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The Moon: Good and Evil

Read "Good and Evil" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
April 10, 2014

Chilometri e chilometri macinati in auto tra Canada, Midwest, East Coast, esibizioni in location le più disparate tra centri d'arte e bar sportivi, oltre che un'affinità elettiva scattata al primo incontro, sono i presupposti che hanno portato Adam Caine, chitarrista di Rochester, NY, e Federico Ughi, batterista romano, dal 2000 residente a Brooklyn, a incidere Good ...

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Odwalla: Ankara Live

Read "Ankara Live" reviewed by Luigi Sforza

by Luigi Sforza
April 10, 2014

Nell'intervista inclusa nel DVD di questo Ankara Live, il leader Massimo Barbiero dice di aver voluto mettere insieme musicisti di varia estrazione -jazzistica, etnica e rock- partendo dall'elemento primordiale che accomuna tutte le musiche, il ritmo. Dato il nutrito dispiegamento di strumenti a percussione, il progetto non avrebbe potuto prendere altra direzione. Impreziosito dalla ...

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Seamus Blake and Chris Cheek: Reeds Ramble

Read "Reeds Ramble" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
April 9, 2014

Saxophonists Seamus Blake and Chris Cheek are both into their third decades as professional musicians. Their working relationship goes back to the early-90s when Cheek was a member of Blake's “alternative grunge jazz" band The Bloomdaddies. On Reeds Ramble (the title is borrowed from a tune written by guitarist Jerry Reed) the two men lead a ...

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David White Jazz Orchestra: The Chase

Read "The Chase" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
April 9, 2014

Some of the same high school kids that we're jamming with composer/arranger/trombonist David White more than fifteen years ago still occupy a space alongside newer faces in his New York based jazz orchestra. Tradition and transition are very much at the core of White's approach to progressive swing. White continues to express his unique style of ...