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Chris Gestrin

Alvaro Rojas: Music for 22

by Mark Corroto
February 14, 2023

Whether it was an unintentional or deliberate act, Alvaro Rojas' Music for 22 creates a perfect movie soundtrack. It is just that the film has yet to be made. His approach is to blend a string quartet both with his electric and resonator guitars, varying the scenarios and emotions as if he were scoring a film. ...

Live at Frankie's Jazz Club

Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: A Few Miles from Memphis; Barbara; Equestrian Interlude; Con Alma; If You Could See Me Now; Invitation; Garden Hand Blues; Bolivia.

Live at Frankie's Jazz Club

By Steve Kaldestad

Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: A Few Miles from Memphis; Barbara; Equestrian Interlude; Con Alma; If You Could See Me Now; Invitation; Garden Hand Blues; Bolivia.

October 2022: Smile

by C. Michael Bailey
October 13, 2022

Tawanda Smile Resonance Records 2022 Tawanda Suessbrich-Joaquim, known professionally as Tawanda, tied for first place in the 9th annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition held in June 2021. That is fresh talent. Tawanda won this award only a year after making her stage debut, a feat, surpassed only by ...

Human Feel: Speak To It

by Mark Werlin
August 4, 2022

What is chamber jazz? The emergence of chamber jazz as a genre can be traced to the innovative sextet sides recorded in the mid-1930s by bandleader John Kirby, and to the trio and small-ensemble post-war recordings of Benny Goodman. By the late 1940s, the term 'chamber jazz' was widely used in industry publications such ...

Steve Kaldestad: Live at Frankie's Jazz Club

by Jack Bowers
May 12, 2022

On his fourth album for Cellar Music, western Canada-based tenor saxophonist Steve Kaldestad plays “Con Alma." He also plays con alma--in English, “with soul"—not only on Dizzy Gillespie's paean to human life's animating principle but throughout a more than hour-long concert at Frankie's Jazz Club in Vancouver, wherein he leads an exemplary quartet whose members are ...

Steve Kaldestad: Live at Frankie's Jazz Club

by Edward Blanco
May 4, 2022

A Port Moody, British Columbia-based tenor saxophonist and educator at Capilano University, Steve Kaldestad is one of the most in-demand musicians in the Canadian jazz scene and Live at Frankie's Jazz Club is his fourth album on the Cellar Live label. Like most musicians affected by the pandemic, working during these trying times has been limited ...

The Blues Project

By Steve Maddock

Label: CellarMusic
Released: 2021
Track listing: Every Day I Have The Blues/All Blues; Turnaround (If You're With Me, Today Will Last Forever); My Funny Valentine; Please Send Me Someone To Love; Liars' Club; Backdoor Blues; Let Me Out; God Bless The Child; Au Privave; Alright, OK, You Win.

Do You Know A Good Thing?

Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1974 Blues; Do You Know A Good Thing When You See One?; Devilette; These Foolish Things; Soulful Kitty; Movin' Out; New Crawl; Greasy Spoon