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Club D'Elf: 100 Years of Flight & Live
by Celeste Sunderland
I'm pretty certain the geometric, polychromatic designs on the Club d'Elf album covers are meant to be stared at while listening. Because if your eyes linger long enough, the patterns propel into motion. Club d'Elf 100 Years of Flight (12/18/2003) Live (5/26/2004) Kufala Recordings 2004
Frank Hewitt: We Loved You & Not Afraid to Live
by Celeste Sunderland
Oh the woebegone days of a jazz musician, as he makes his way toward mastery, accompanying many of the greats, struggling to keep abreast of the industry, make a name for himself, playing nightly at local clubs, garnering a base of fans, but most of them poor musicians themselves... Such was the way of life for ...
Smalls Records
by Celeste Sunderland
Pianist Frank Hewitt lived in a stripped-out, walk-in refrigerator in the back room of Smalls jazz club the last years of his life. “He was one of the most remarkable pianists to come along, yet almost nobody knew who he was," said Smalls Records founder Luke Kaven. “There was something very disturbing about seeing somebody who ...
Bill Charlap: Somewhere: The Songs Of Leonard Bernstein
by Celeste Sunderland
This month Brooke Shields steps into the starring role of Broadway's Tony-Award winning Wonderful Town revival; 25 of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic are available on DVD; and radio listeners will have the pleasure of hearing an eleven-part documentary on the maestro's life and career, narrated by Susan Sarandon. Fourteen years ...
Jeff Marx: Treading Air, Breathing Fire
by Celeste Sunderland
An album becomes an extraordinary work when it features playing that ventures beyond a category of art created simply to tickle the senses. Tenor saxophonist Jeff Marx' second album, Treading Air Breathing Fire , ponders metaphysical relations on an immense scale. Most of the content takes the form of passionate dialogue between the four ...
Ben Waltzer: One Hundred Dreams Ago
by Celeste Sunderland
Sometimes we're just looking to hear a good, fun jazz album. One Hundred Dreams Ago is it. Ben Waltzer on piano, Gerald Cleaver on drums, and Matt Penman on bass all play with a fearless ferocity. But the nine tracks don't sound wild, or untamed, more confidently swinging. There's not a hint of timidity. And there's ...
William Galison & Madeleine Peyroux: Got You On My Mind
by Celeste Sunderland
The trippy, cinematic journey that is William Galison and Madeleine Peyroux's new album, Got You On My Mind , opens with the bright, swinging glee of “Back In Your Own Backyard." It sways through the happily plaintive “J'ai Deux Amours," swaggers through a Charlie Chaplin-in-Technicolor “Rag For Madi," and continues on this diversely scenic escapade for ...
Bill Frisell's Big Ocean
by Celeste Sunderland
Sometimes music creates such an intense atmosphere that it begins to control the listener's breathing. The pulse connects to the tempo. Touch becomes intensely sensual, while the mind drifts to otherworldly realms. When Bill Frisell plays his guitar every wavering, undulating, sustaining note hangs in the air until the room fills with an invisible, dreamlike fog, ...
Cassandra Wilson: She Who Weeps
by Celeste Sunderland
The timbre of Cassandra Wilson’s voice is like an opal—incomparably beautiful, deliciously pearlescent, graceful, rich, and eternally strong. On She Who Weeps, originally recorded in 1990 and rereleased last January, lyrics bare little importance. The descriptive quality of words takes a back seat to Wilson’s innate ability to instantly create an atmosphere and strike emotional chords ...
Roscoe Mitchell: Opening Doors
by Celeste Sunderland
Our elders often pass on truths learned along the road of life, old adages that become mantras repeated continually. Roscoe Mitchell’s father gave him one piece of advice that he’ll always remember: “Time is very important. Use your time wisely.” Sure, it’s a universal truth, but for Mitchell, this advice is especially relevant, because the saxophonist, ...
