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The Tango Group: Amor por el Tango
by Dan McClenaghan
The rhythm of the tango pulses, oozing forward on its collective ensemble momentum, carried by each instrument in the drummer-less music. Piano, bass, violin, bandoneon--it's a heady sound, full of emotion and spirit, evoking images of passionate dancers.Pianist Roger Davidson is a musician/composer/arranger who spends time in the classical, Latin, jazz and world music ...
Craig Russo Latin Jazz Project: Soul Eyes
by Dan McClenaghan
You could call this Latin jazz with a Midwestern accent. Percussionist Craig Russo and the Latin Jazz Project are a group of mostly mainstream players hailing from the Champaign-Urbana, Illinois neck of the woods, which is probably not what one would consider a hotbed of Latin culture. But they've put out a very tangy, jubilant and ...
Tom Collier: Mallet Jazz
by Dan McClenaghan
Wander into the parking lot of a high school marching band field tournament, through a labyrinth school buses and picnic tables, into throngs of young musicians--teenagers in small packs cruising on foot, gossiping, flirting, maybe throwing a football around as a cold November dusk settles in--and there always seems to be a backdrop of percussion, impromptu ...
Jody Sandhaus: A Fine Spring Morning
by Dan McClenaghan
She can sing with a hint of angelic innocence ("A Fine Spring Morning") or lay down the lyrics like the devil's sitting on her shoulder ("Whatever Lola Wants"), with an instrument that makes achingly beautiful sounds--just listen to the ending of “Deed I Do," when she scats (she's got that angel thing going again here) into ...
Septeto Rodriguez: Baila! Gitano Baila!
by Dan McClenaghan
It's a stroke of genius, this incorporation of Cuban and Jewish music. Drummer Roberto Juan Rodriguez left Cuba at age nine and settled with his family in Miami, where he encountered exiles of diaspora, Jewish survivors dancing into their senior years to the sounds of the cha cha and mambo. A move to New York to ...
Inside Out: What Is This Thing?
by Dan McClenaghan
Inside Out, a Canadian guitar/bass/drums combo led by drummer Barry Romberg, covers some time-tested standards in a understated yet unconventional style without going avant, a sort of cruise just within the radar sound that, with its low-burn intensity, flirts with familiar melodies in an oblique fashion, maintaining the thread just enough to keep you bothered, and ...
Joan Stiles: Love Call
by Dan McClenaghan
On Joan Stiles debut, Love Call, the pianist sometimes had me thinking of Erroll Garner, with a bright elan in her right hand flourishes; and sometimes she had me thinking of Thelonious Monk, with quirky chords and odd angles; but mostly she reminds me--as an arranger, not a player--of Ellington, penning her charts, masterfully, with the ...
Ann Austin: Lost In Your Eyes
by Dan McClenaghan
Cape Cod-based vocalist Ann Austin sounds blue collar, blue jeans, with an unaffected and straightforward delivery and pipes with some power when she needs it. Throw in the occasional world-weariness and an underlying toughness--tinted with vulnerability--and she sounds like a lady who sings in a bar somewhere--and does it very well, exploring themes of love, longing, ...
Claire Ritter: Greener Than Blue
by Dan McClenaghan
Dichotomy prevails on pianist Claire Ritter's Greener Than Blue --rhythmic blues motifs versus peaceful impressionism; rags vs. tone poems; alternating west and east atmospherics; the rent party vying with the parlor. And still it holds together, thanks to the music's spare beauty and Ritter's always interesting melodic vision.Ritter delivers here on solo piano and ...
Dom Minasi: Quick Response
by Dan McClenaghan
Guitarist Dom Minasi's Quick Response shines up the organ combo concept and bends it into odd angles, then darts off interesting new trajectories.Minasi released two albums on Blue Note Records in the seventies before he got his fill of the music business and took a quarter century off from high profile aspirations. He came ...
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