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Joey DeFrancesco: Organic Vibes
by Chris M. Slawecki
Rooted in Philadelphia, the hometown of so many of his Hammond B-3 predecessors, Joey DeFrancesco knows soul-jazz organ grooves. And he seems to have studied their lessons well, as he's strung together the Down Beat Critics' Poll “Best Hammond B-3 player awards the past four years running. DeFrancesco grooves these Organic Vibes in the ...
Lou Rawls: The Best of Lou Rawls: The Capitol Jazz & Blues Sessions
by Chris M. Slawecki
This twenty-song anthology delivers the definitive overview of Lou Rawls' vocal accomplishments before his late-1970s run with Gamble & Huff for Philly International records popped him into the mainstream. Like so many other blues-influenced pop singers, Rawls begins right from The Source, the family church, through the opening “Motherless Child, from The Soul Stirring ...
The RH Factor: Distractions
by Chris M. Slawecki
A straight-up hard bop player of often stunning ability, Roy Hargrove (RH) needs to play more than straight-up hard bop, and sometimes he embarks on outside projects like The RH Factor for explorations beyond the jazz repertoire. He performs on trumpet and flugelhorn here, with an experimental laboratory that includes a double rhythm section (bassists Reggie ...
Christian McBride Throws Down
by Chris M. Slawecki
Philadelphia native Christian McBride stands among contemporary music's heaviest musicians. That's no reflection of McBride's physical stature, or even of his cavernous speaking voice. It is descriptive of his powerful, profoundly resonant voice on acoustic and electric bass. It almost certainly applies to his formidable body of work, which includes seven albums as a leader and ...
MC Rai: Raivolution
by Chris M. Slawecki
Born in southern Tunisia in 1977, MC Rai proved so adept in the native chaabi folk music tradition that he was performing on local radio stations before his eighth birthday. Like most teenagers, his musical horizons expanded as he grew and his ears soon embraced the sounds of rai music, folk music native to neighboring Algeria, ...
Various Artists: Ziriguiboom: The Now Sound of Brazil 2
by Chris M. Slawecki
The music on this compilation is as mysterious, romantic, and fashionable as the continent from which it comes, a roadmap through Ziriguiboom's exotic Brazilian jungle overgrown with cross-pollinated classic and contemporary music; as the packaging says, “from electronic to bossa to samba soul. Brazil 2 traverses three more or less equal, colorful territories: ...
Joseph Israel: Gone Are the Days
by Chris M. Slawecki
On this debut, young lion Joseph Israel proves a faithful student of classic spiritualized reggae. Judging from his supporting cast, he certainly should: His backing group The Jerusalem Band draws musicians from bands led by contemporary toaster Luciano and Ziggy Marley, Bob's son, and features legendary island guitarist Earl “Chinna Smith plus bassist Chris Meredith, producer ...
Gianluca Petrella: Indigo4
by Chris M. Slawecki
This early favorite among contenders for best debut of 2006 comes from a young Italian composer and trombone player who says, “I always appreciated the vanguards in our musical world, especially the American one at the end of the '60s and for a lot of the '70s. Important influences include Ornette Coleman, the Sun Ra visionary ...
Bombay Dub Orchestra: Bombay Dub Orchestra
by Chris M. Slawecki
A dream deferred is not always a dream denied. In the late 1990s, the UK-based team of composer/arranger/pianist Andrew T. Mackay and producer Garry Hughes (Art of Noise, Sly & Robbie, and the particularly pertinent Pink Floyd Orchestral Project) traveled to India to record Bombay's top session players for a project by Spellbound, a ...
Gecko Turner: Guapapasea!
by Chris M. Slawecki
Maybe it's because I grew up around Philadelphia through the 1970s, but I always remember soul music around--soul music light enough to dance like a butterfly on a breeze yet knee-deep enough in the funk that one could dive in and swim. Its charm was easy to recognize and feel, but hard to describe and define.
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