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Sai Ghose Trio: E-Motion
by Dan McClenaghan
E-Motion opens with a tune entitled “Little Monster," and the sound does seem to harbor a bit of monstrous malevolence: a hard swing, a robust and brash tenor sax in front of the trio, a punchy dark-toned melody.The Sai Ghose Trio adds saxophonist Sean Berry to the mix on four of these eight tunes, ...
Steven Bernstein: Diaspora Hollywood
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter/composer Steven Bernstein's Diaspora Hollywood brings a Jewish tinge into a bluesy American jazz feeling; this mournful after-hours set brings some past sounds to mind while simultaneously pushing the vision forward.The ensemble features an unusual front line of the leader's trumpet with Pablo Calocero's baritone saxophone, bass clarinet and flutes, along with D.J. Bonebrake's ...
House Band of the Universe: Cycle Maintenance
by Dan McClenaghan
First things first, though it's probably irrelevant, but is House Band of the Universe a great name for a music-making ensemble or what?Now for the relevance: the sounds herein--it might be a suite, though it isn't labeled as such--seem as though they contain some sort of elusive grand significance, just out of reach. Or ...
Dave Lobenstein Trio: Triple Play
by Dan McClenaghan
This one came in with no words attached--no press release, no liner notes--not the recommended mode. So you know only that it's a trio affair, bass/drums/guitar, the leader of the set being bassist Dave Lobenstein.So it goes on the stereo, and it passes the five second test: if the first five seconds of a ...
Clark Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra: Porgy & Bess
by Dan McClenaghan
Can a remake of a classic album also be considered a classic? It's hard to say. George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess, as done by Miles Davis on flugelhorn in front of Gil Evans' fabulous lighter-than-air arrangements--this was back in 1958--certainly qualifies as a major work of art, quite innovative at the time. The venerable trumpeter/flugelhornist Clark ...
Satoko Fujii Trio: Illusion Suite
by Dan McClenaghan
Nobody does the piano trio thing like Satoko Fujii. Almost every other effort out there in this category can be related to Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner... to name just a few. With Fujii, the sound is a category of its own. Free, to be sure, with classical tinges, an the occasional influence ...
Natsuki Tamura Quartet: Exit
by Dan McClenaghan
Making music with a commercial appeal has probably never entered trumpeter Natsuki Tamura's mind. He follows his muse, and she takes him to uncharted territories.Last year's Hada Hada may be the most intense set of jazz sounds--Electric, with that capital “E"--you'll likely enounter, a plugged-in fifty thousand watt hurricane of a CD; while this ...
Chad Lawson Trio: Unforeseen
by Dan McClenaghan
Nothing particularly earthshaking or groundbreaking here; just a well oiled piano trio going after an engaging set tunes, melody in the forefront. Pianist Chad Lawson has an ear for fine melodies on this collection that mixes standards, a few rock tunes, and four of his own first rate compositions. The set opens ...
Rick Stone: Samba de Novembro
by Dan McClenaghan
Guitarist Rick Stone strums into Samba de Novembro 's opener, the title tune, with a clear, crisp, precise sound, joined twenty seconds later by Tardo Hamer's succinct and delicate piano notes--like raindrops into a pond. Up-tempo, fluid, an enticing South American mood. The guitar and piano--tangy versus sweet--bounce off each other nicely; and Matt Wilson, who ...
Sten Hostfalt: Eternity Check
by Dan McClenaghan
A good deal of music that falls into the free jazz/improvised music category can sound like unstructured noise to the uninitiated listener, like the sounds made by a ensemble of adolescents without a year's worth of musical training between them noodling away on unfamiliar instruments.“Turn it up loud and listen again," a mentor once ...
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