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Maroon: Who the Sky Betrays
by Celeste Sunderland
Framed by burgundy velvet curtains, Hillary Maroon’s crimson dreadlocks glowed in the red gels at Tonic one evening last month. After a few adjustments on her vocal effects box, she and her quartet gently launched into a Radiohead tune, “The Tourist,” one of a handful of pop/rock covers that appear on Maroon’s second studio release, Who ...
Gerry Hemingway: Devil's Paradise
by Celeste Sunderland
If music reflects life, the Gerry Hemingway Quartet’s first studio release, Devil’s Paradise, mirrors the zestful, zany part, where you run around all night with your best back-alley buddies, doing mischievous things and exchanging intimate stories. A collection of seven Hemingway originals, plus “Gentle Ben” by Mark Helias, the disc displays the talents of four exceptional ...
Armen Donelian: Quartet Language
by Celeste Sunderland
Pianist Armen Donelian made the acquaintance of alto saxophonist Thomas Chapin in 1988. Ten years later, at the age of 40, Chapin died of leukemia. Rewind to two spring nights in 1992. At the New York jazz club Visiones, Chapin shares the stage with Donelian, bassist Calvin Hill, and drummer Jeff Williams. Five tracks of intricately ...
Daniel Levin: Don't Go It Alone
by Celeste Sunderland
Contrasts flavor life. Growing shadows creeping across an expansive lawn add drama, slowly and deliberately, like a long note played deeply against the strings of a cello. Raindrops pound dry asphalt in summer, peaking the human senses like rapid spurts of a cornet against the heavy pulse of a bass. The Daniel Levin ...
Various Artists: The Reasons for Christmas Project
by Celeste Sunderland
The Poconos... honeymooners flock there in spring to bathe in heart-shaped tubs, families arrive in summer for a swim through glistening lakes, hikers arrive in the fall to see the changing leaves, and in the winter... Well, there's the skiing, the skating, the cuddling by the fire... and there's the area's burgeoning music community, which convened ...
Rhoda Scott: The Hammond Organ Of Christmas
by Celeste Sunderland
Hammond-heads have a new reason to hail the holidays this season: Rhoda Scott's The Hammond Organ Of Christmas , a collection of 17 classic yuletide tunes that combines French faire with African-American spirituals. Scott recorded most of the album in Paris in 1977 alongside drummer Bill Elliott. But two tracks feature Houston Person on tenor saxophone, ...
Eric Reed: Merry Magic
by Celeste Sunderland
The best kinds of holiday albums are the ones that offer a diverse selection of songs while holding true to the theme. Pianist Eric Reed's new Christmas disc Merry Magic combines hard-swinging bebop with slow, graceful ballads, a little Latin spice, and evangelical organ. It culls up all the emotions of the season, from childlike anticipation ...
Mario Pavone
by Celeste Sunderland
Bassist Mario Pavone holds a picture up to the light. It looks like a collage of geometric graphics, with strong hues, shadows, and text. “You won't notice a guy standing here," he says, rotating the picture. “It's our driver in Europe. This is a performance space in Munich, and this is our driver but you would ...
HighNote/Savant Records
by Celeste Sunderland
In the mid '60s, when HighNote/Savant president Joe Fields was a young record executive at the Prestige label, he recognized talent in a young saxophone player called Houston Person. “I felt if I were to have a record company, he'd be the kind of artist I'd want," said Fields. Last month Person released his seventh album ...
Finding Carla Bley
by Celeste Sunderland
Some people store their collections in cigar boxes. Others display them in glass cases. Pianist/composer Carla Bley buries her collection in the ground behind the upstate New York home she shares with bassist Steve Swallow. It's a collection of treasures culled from exotic locales she tours. Bley collects seeds. Little bunches of lettuce, wild rashes of ...
