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Three Pairs of Aces - Wild!
by Chris M. Slawecki
Corina Bartra & Her Azu Project Afro Peruvian Jazz Celebration Blue Spiral Music 2009 Corina Bartra does more than compose and sing in a style that merges music from North and South America--she lives this style by splitting her days between her native Peru and adopted hometown of New York ...
MIDIval PunditZ: Hello Hello
by Chris M. Slawecki
On Hello Hello, the fusion of Western electronic music with the traditional and folk music of India, synthesized by the New Delhi-based instrumental and production team of Guarav Raina and Tapan Raj, sounds nearly complete. Built from Indian percussion, string, vocal and melodic traditions, and strung together like decorative lights with electronic samples, loops, ...
simakDialog: Demi Masa
by Chris M. Slawecki
simakDialog--the complex, electrifyingly joyous brainchild of guitarist Tohpathy and composer-keyboardist Riza Arshad--was born in the Indonesian capitol of Jakarta in 1993. Arshad, who wrote and produced all of Demi Masa, their fifth album, won Best Jazz Producer honors at the 2003 Indonesian Music Awards for simakDialog's album Trance/Mission (2002, Ragadi Music), also voted that year's Best ...
Frank Wess: Once is Not Enough
by Chris M. Slawecki
Dominated by the sound of swinging, good-time blues, Once Is Not Enough indisputably plants NEA Jazz Master Wess in the tradition of Count Basie, in whose Count Basie Orchestra Wess played flute, alto, and tenor saxophones for more than a decade. This set jumps from the very start: Wess' tenor on his opening, title ...
Al Hood: Just a Little Taste: Al Hood Plays the Writing of Dave Henson
by Chris M. Slawecki
You might not know trumpet player Al Hood, but he's the pro's pro: he's toured with the official Harry James and Glenn Miller tribute bands, recorded and performed in ensembles led by Ray Charles, Curtis Fuller, Arturo Sandoval and others, and is a longstanding member of the Denver Brass. He's also a tenured professor at the ...
TriBeCaStan: Strange Cousin
by Chris M. Slawecki
The musical state of mind known as TriBeCaStan was co-founded by multi-instrumentalist John Kruth (whose more colorful credits include “banshee mandolin" for rock bands the Meat Puppets and Violent Femmes) and ethnomusicologist Jeff Green. Their forces were joined, in their march toward musical independence, by bassist Dave Dreiwitz (from the band Ween), and multi-reed man Matt ...
Corina Bartra & Her Azu Project: Afro-Peruvian Jazz Celebration
by Chris M. Slawecki
Corina Bartra does more than compose and sing in a style that merges music from North and South America--she lives this style by splitting her days between her native Peru and adopted hometown of New York City. Celebration, her fifth release, blends traditional Afro-Peruvian music with contemporary vocal and instrumental jazz, a fusion brought to life ...
Remembering Michael: Help Me Sing It
by Chris M. Slawecki
“Lift your head up high / And scream out to the world I know I am someone / And let the truth unfurl Ain't no one can hurt you now / Because you know what's true Yes, I believe in me / So you believe in you Help ...
NOMO: Invisible Cities
by Chris M. Slawecki
Invisible Cities is NOMO's companion piece to Ghost Rock, comprising music recorded during Ghost's recording sessions and subsequent, supporting live performances. Cities uses many of the same musicians, structures, and approaches, but Bergman and NOMO seem to focus more on pulling traditional jazz sounds into, and pushing the boundaries of electronic rock out of, its swirling ...
NOMO: Ghost Rock
by Chris M. Slawecki
The initial sound heard on the opening “Brainwave" offers a first insight into the music of NOMO--the sound of composer, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Elliot Bergman “playing" an actual brainwave monitor. It's an important clue: NOMO finds music where other people find noise. Ghost Rock is not an easy listen. It is inventive, challenging, and ...
