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Bill Frisell: Richter 858
by Dan McClenaghan
Richter 858 is a commissioned work, setting guitarist Bill Frisell up with the job of creating music to accompany eight paintings for a book project on German painter Gerhard Richter. One of Richter's main techniques is to use a squeegee to smear paint over an aluminum surface. Frisell captures this sound--the squeak and squeal, the shrillness--perfectly ...
Rowan University Lab Band: Collaboration
by Dan McClenaghan
How many records in your collection feature a song with a contra bassoon trading solos with a bass flute, baritone sax and a wailing electric guitar? The song is “Jackson Square," the group: The Rowan University Lab Band on Collaboration.These student bands come along and they can fool you into lowered expectations. You know ...
Jeno Somlai: Let It Go
by Dan McClenaghan
Jeno Somlai approaches the keyboard with a percussionist's sensibility--rhythm, rhythm, rhythm--here on his debut disc, Let It Go. That's not a surprise, given that the Milwaukee-based musician is primarily a drummer who took up the piano just four years ago. The disc opens with Stevie Wonder's “Golden Lady," sounding sort of like Art Blakey's arrangement for ...
Dan McClenaghan's Top Ten List for 2004
by Dan McClenaghan
#1. Maria Schneider Orchestra A Concert in the Garden ArtistShareA lush, gorgeous, soaring set of sounds. You could get into the “is it classical or is it jazz" argument, but don't. Just listen.#2. Charlie Haden (with Gonzalo Rubalcala) Land of the Sun VerveAn understated and shamelessly beautiful set of songs ...
Grachan Moncur III Octet: Exploration
by Dan McClenaghan
"Frankenstein" seems an odd name for a jazz tune, but then why not? The song title--and the song itself--captures the mood of Grachan Moncur III's Exploration. It's an arrangement that features an assertive--to the point of brashness, perhaps--ensemble interplay of a seven horns backed by bass and drums, sans piano or guitar. Two trombones, along with ...
Havana Carbo: Luna De Varadero
by Dan McClenaghan
New York-based vocalist Havana Carbo sings about love on her latest set, Luna De Varadero, featuring boleros, bossas, ballads, and “...songs I dug up." The sounds of Mexico, Spain, Brazil, Cuba and the American Songbook, sung in Spanish, Portuguese and English, make their appearances here in a lovely mix. Carbo's voice has a rich timbre combined ...
House Band of the Universe: Cycle Two
by Dan McClenaghan
Cycle Two is all “spontaneously composed," and you sit and listen to it and get the feeling these guys have somehow established a kind of musical conduit to the cosmos. Well, it is the House Band of the Universe. It's one of the more difficult, if not impossible, sounds to categorize. With a seeming suspension of ...
David Sills: Eastern View
by Dan McClenaghan
With a solid organ trio backing him, tenor saxophonist David Sills grabs your attention with his very first solo on Eastern View 's opener, the Sills-penned (as are all the songs here) “New Break." The tune opens with an organ-supplied bass groove backed by shimmering cymbals; then the guitar and sax enter, peeling off some tangy ...
George Kahn: ...Compared to What?
by Dan McClenaghan
This crisp, well-crafted, straight-ahead (mostly) set opens auspiciously, with tenor saxophonist Justo Almario wandering into the studio blowing solo, wailing, strolling around seemingly aimlessly; but you can feel there's a method to his melodic madness. About a minute later the bass throbs in behind him with repeated two note statements, followed by the drums, and finally ...
Eric Hofbauer: American Vanity
by Dan McClenaghan
It's hard to decide--based on American Vanity --if Eric Hofbauer is a brilliant young artist or a wild-eyed nut-case. He plays solo acoustic guitar, ranting about American culture, American hubris, and American vanity through his guitar strings; though you wouldn't know this without liner notes. You might just take the set for some sharply-focused and fairly ...
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