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Billie Holiday Blues
by Dan McClenaghan
Don't Explain Raphaela showed up at her job at the Oceanic Brew Pub with a slight swelling beneath her eye and a discoloration of the skin beneath it. The new grill cook, Hobgood, saw this right off when she came into the kitchen. Her effort to avoid eye contact and to avert the damaged side of ...
Phil Haynes / Ben Monder: Transition (s)
by Dan McClenaghan
The call of the electric guitar has enticed drummer Phil Haynes to revisit his early passion for the instrument. Two albums have resulted: Return to Electric (review here), and now Transition (s), both on Corner Store Records. The former is a trio album that has Haynes teamed with guitarist Steve Salerno and bassist Drew Gress, the ...
Phil Haynes: Return to Electric
by Dan McClenaghan
The band Return to Forever was a seminal jazz fusion group led by pianist Chick Corea. The eponymous first album, on ECM Records, was released in 1972, opening doors for scores of other like-minded ensembles. Electricity was a main aspect of the move away from acoustic jazz. The Fender Rhodes piano and plugged-in bass and guitars ...
Claire Cope: Every Journey
by Dan McClenaghan
Consider British pianist, composer/ bandleader Claire Cope. She debuted as a fully formed artist via her excellent septet set Small World (Self Produced, 2020), a deftly crafted classical/jazz hybrid. On her second recording, the album at hand, Every Journey, she employs an eleven-piece ensemble, building on the atmosphere of her debut, painting translucent layerings and weaving ...
Jenny Hill: Floating
by Dan McClenaghan
Jenny Hill is joined by her group Liquid Horn on Floating. The musical mix includes straight-ahead jazz, Brazilian and world music grooves, plus what Hill calls “a splash of funky Brooklyn." Hill is a master multi-reedist, employing her tenor saxophone, flute and soprano sax here. Liquid Horn adds the piano-bass-and-drums rhythm section with Allison ...
Hello Angelina
by Dan McClenaghan
I Fall In Love Too Easily Angelina poured down her first pint of the night in ten seconds flat, standing right there at the bar. Her job as a field reporter for the local news had given her the unenviable task of performing a mock interview of Charlie, the pelican who had taken up a roost ...
Dr. Purgatory: The Consumption: A Tragic Folkale in Six Parts
by Dan McClenaghan
Guitarist David Riddel}, aka Dr. Purgatory mixes up the influences of Dutch guitarist Reinier Baas, Maurice Ravel and Bjork and more. “Everything I compose is essentially influenced by her (Bjork's) 2001 album <em>Vespertine</em> (Elektra)," Riddel says. Under those influences, he has produced a futuristic, chamber jazz, {{m: Herbie Hancock-esque fantasy soundtrack of sorts with The Consumption: ...
Kevin Fort: Everything I Love
by Dan McClenaghan
The ghosts of pianists past inhabit the music of Kevin Fort. The Chicago-based piano man's third album release, Everything I Love, keeps a grip on the tradition with an eye to right now on this ten-tune workout that includes five engaging Fort originals and and five well-chosen standards, incuding the Cole Porter title tune, the Rodgers ...
Lucy Southern: Lucy Southern
by Dan McClenaghan
California-born Lucy Southern, now based in France, is on a jazz journey that took her to Poland for the Seifert Competition. A wee-hours party ensued, a good time that rolled to the break of day. At one point, Southern and Michal Urbaniak, the Polish violinist, convened one-on-one to talk music. Urbaniak told Southern that he liked ...
Freddie Hubbard: On Fire: Live At The Blue Morocco
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard (1938 -2008) began his professional jazz journey in 1960 as a full-blooded hard bopper, recording his first album in that year for Blue Note Records, Open Sesame. Much of the ensuing decade saw him in several Blue Note outings under his own name and as a side man. He also recorded sets for ...
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