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The Ripple Effect: Hybrids
by Chris M. Slawecki
Hybrids is a jazz album in name only--specifically the names of multi-instrumentalist John Surman and drummer Jack DeJohnette, who leads this collaborative ensemble. One of the few musicians to have recorded or performed with Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis, DeJohnette's jazz credentials are obvious. But Hybrids tosses his cap into ...
Garaj Mahal: Blueberry Cave
by Chris M. Slawecki
The fifth studio release from this San Francisco quartet embodies the modern instrumental jam band movement and preserves the freewheeling legacy of 1970s progressive rock along the way. Alan Hertz (drums), Eric Levy (keyboards), Kai Eckhardt (bass), and Fareed Haque (guitar) came into Garaj Mahal from varied backgrounds: Eckhardt played in John McLaughlin's trio, ...
TS Monk: His Father
by Chris M. Slawecki
Part 1 | Part 2 In November 1957, a stellar constellation of jazz royalty including Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie performed at Carnegie Hall, two performances in one night to benefit the Morningside Community Center in Harlem, NY. The performances were recorded for subsequent overseas broadcast on Voice of America radio. The Thelonious Monk ...
TS Monk: His Father's Voice
by Chris M. Slawecki
Part 1 | Part 2 In November 1957, a stellar constellation of jazz royalty including Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie performed at Carnegie Hall, two performances in one night to benefit the Morningside Community Center in Harlem, NY. The performances were recorded for subsequent overseas broadcast on Voice of America radio. The Thelonious Monk ...
Bill Laswell/Various Artists: Subharmonic In Dub
by Chris M. Slawecki
Bill Laswell has composed, performed, and produced just about every style of music known to man--and a few more, too. In the early 1990s, in tandem with producer John Matarazzo (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Tito Puente, Manu Dibango, Fela Kuti, Sly & Robbie), Laswell co-founded Axiom Records. Through Axiom and its subsidiaries (including Subharmonic ...
Erik Truffaz: Saloua
by Chris M. Slawecki
I am pleased and saddened to report that this is one of the best pieces of music I have heard in 2005. It is a pleasure to have discovered the fifth album in the US for Blue Note, and ninth album overall, by this French composer, bandleader, and trumpet player. Yet it is also sad, because ...
Various Artists: Verve Remixed 3
by Chris M. Slawecki
Annual Verve Remixed projects match up trip-hop and electronic music producers with historic treasures from the label's vaults in order to update or contemporize them. This third volume predominantly features female vocalists like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, and Anita O'Day, from among whom Sarah Vaughan gleefully steals the show. RSL, a sound ...
Hipnosis: Carrousel
by Chris M. Slawecki
This Munich quintet titled its debut simply Jazz. The album was so well received in Germany that it was subsequently released for Jazz-heads in the UK and Japan, too. Completely composed, performed, and produced by the band, this second full-length release showcases Hipnosis' excellent musicianship--especially on the part of Wanja Slavin (alto sax, alto clarinet) and ...
Dub Gabriel: Bass Jihad
by Chris M. Slawecki
Primarily written, performed, and produced by Dub Gabriel, Bass Jihad spans and touches all four corners of the world--if “all four corners means Jamaica, India, the Middle East, and Brooklyn. Gabriel begins this mystical electrical journey alongside Ahad Nazarzadeh-Saaz with “War in the Poppy Fields, a panic of Middle Eastern wind and percussion instruments ...
The Quantic Soul Orchestra: Pushin' On
by Chris M. Slawecki
As the mastermind behind Quantic, Will Holland scored a major hit in electronic and club music circles with last year's Mishaps Happening. Here performing on organ, bass, guitar, sitar, percussion, and saxophone, he leads the Quantic Soul Orchestra, the concert ensemble he formed to “put the funk back in it, through its US debut. ...
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