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Nina Simone: Fodder on My Wings & Baltimore
by Celeste Sunderland
Had Nina Simone not gotten so fed up with the music industry and been so disgusted by racism in America that she left for Barbados, Liberia, the Netherlands and France, we may never have had the incredible songs that pulse and hark and lament through two landmark albums, Fodder on My Wings and Baltimore. However, destiny ...
Bireli Lagrene & Friends: Live Jazz
by Celeste Sunderland
Birele Lagrene Live Jazz Á Vienne Dreyfus Records 2005 The little boy on stage is barely big enough to hold the guitar in his lap, but he plays with startling skill. Just beginning to develop a technique, his innocence is brilliant. He smiles humbly at the audience at Montreux.
Keely Smith: Vegas 58 - Today
by Celeste Sunderland
When Keely Smith sings “I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues, you believe her because she's the kind of woman whose authority goes un-argued. But in a way you doubt her because she's also the sort of lady who would always find her way around the blues. Actually, there's very little blues to be had ...
David Eyges: Ace
by Celeste Sunderland
It's a risky venture to record an album based purely on improvisation. Cellist David Eyges, saxophonist Arthur Blythe, and drummer Abe Speller took a chance going into the studio armed solely with their own individual spontaneous creativity; they left with ten tracks that travel hesitantly through arid realms of a jazz wasteland, reaching desperately for snatches ...
Salvatore Bonafede: Journey To Donnafugata
by Celeste Sunderland
Enrico Rava weaves his passionate trumpet through “Viaggo A Donnafugata, the opening track of pianist Salvatore Bonafede's new album. Kicking Journey To Donnafugata off with a nostalgic tone, he creates a prayerful introduction to an album which pays homage to the beloved island of Sicily, the setting for Luchino Visconti's 1963 film Il Gattopardo (The Leopard). ...
Clogs: Stick Music
by Celeste Sunderland
Sound is spiritual. The sound of a single, unaltered string quivering against the force of a finger can be religious. With its third album, Stick Music, the Australian-American group Clogs devotes itself to the exploration of strings. With band members Bryce Dessner on guitar and prepared guitar and Padma Newsome on violin, viola, vocals and prepared ...
The Beat Circus: Ringleader's Revolt
by Celeste Sunderland
The timing is a bit inopportune for this. In a world rife with disorder, the last thing the listening population needs is music to dismantle the mind. Things start cheerfully enough, with a big-top band overture that culminates in oohs and aahs from an admiring crowd, then erupts into a rapid-plucking, drum-stomping, horn-blasting good ...
Matt Wilson: Connecting with the People
by Celeste Sunderland
Two sticks beat incessantly on a snare and a tom while a third rests snuggly in Matt Wilson's armpit. Poised on his steed of a stool, arched foot tapping methodically on the high-hat pedal, the bespectacled, mock turtleneck wearing, just-turned-forty-year-old resembles a Revolutionary War hero. In reality he's a New York jazz musician on stage at ...
Steven Bernstein: Diaspora Hollywood
by Celeste Sunderland
Picture a couple of Jewish grandpas sitting around cracking jokes. Now imagine a Hollywood starlet from the '50s sauntering into a dimly lit club and you've got Diaspora Hollywood , the third installment of trumpet player Steven Bernstein's Diaspora series on John Zorn's Tzadik label. An ode to pioneering geniuses like Franz Waxman and Max Steiner, ...
Warren Vach
by Celeste Sunderland
Warren Vaché Dream Dancing Arbors Jazz 2004 Cornetist Warren Vaché brought two pals along on his fancy night out on the town, or in other words his new album Dream Dancing. Pianist Bill Charlap and tenor saxophonist Harry Allen join Vaché's trio rounded out by Dennis Irwin on ...
